Abortion Essay Research Paper For every two

Abortion Essay, Research Paper

For every two babies born, one dies because of abortion. Abortion is the most disruptive bio-ethical issue of our time (Levine 2). Abortion has two different viewpoints. One view, known as pro-life, sees abortion as the immoral slaughter of innocent life. The other view, pro-choice, considers abortion as an option that must be available to women if they are to control their own reproductive lives (2). Abortion is very much a heated topic these days, and many people think that they know how to solve the problem of abortion. Abortion can be seen through two extremely different sides, but I think that abortion is morally, ethically and spiritually wrong. The one, most popular, option is to give the baby up for adoption.

In the U.S. since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, abortion is essentially legal on request throughout the country. The Roe v. Wade decision established the trimester system of regulating abortion. Under this system, the Supreme Court ruled that:

1) The state doesn’t have any compelling interest in regulating

Abortion during the first trimester (12 weeks) of pregnancy,

Except to require that an abortion performed by a licensed

Physician.

2) The states only interest in regulating abortions during the second trimester is to protect maternal health.

3) When outside the fetus becomes viable (capable of independent

Survival outside the womb, with or without life support), the

State may choose to limit abortions to women for whom continued pregnancy would be life threatening (Costa 75).

Many people see abortion as something that has to be done, not as something that is wrong. Women seek abortions for a number of reasons. One is that women who are not married may wish to terminate a pregnancy. Sometimes this is because she can’t support a baby on her own. Another reason is that in some societies where premarital sex is condemned and even punished, an unmarried woman may seek an abortion to hide the fact that she had sex (Broude 4).

Some believe that the fetus is being aborted and not a baby. They think that the fetus hasn’t developed enough to let it be called a baby (7). A fetus is known as the unborn young of a viviparous vertebrate (Levine 5). Even though the fetus is unborn, it is still recognized as a human being and should be treated that way.

Aristotle believed that children were a common good to parents but there are circumstances (deformity, overpopulation) in which certain children should be destroyed (Shelp 28). Take China for example. The country is so overpopulated that there is a limit to one child per family. So what happens when a third child is conceived. Does that make abortion right then.

Abortion is legal in the USA at any time throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy. 37,000,000 babies have been aborted since 1776. At 18 days after conception, a baby’s heart is already beating. At 6 weeks, brain waves can be measured. At 8 weeks, the stomach, liver, and kidneys are functioning, and fingerprints have formed. At 9 weeks, the unborn child can feel

pain. 700,000 abortions are performed each year in America after 9 weeks into the pregnancy. The overwhelming majority of all abortions, (95%), are done as a means of birth control. Only 1% are performed because of rape or incest; 1% because of fetal

abnormalities; 3% due to the mother’s health problems. 1.5 million babies die each year from abortion; That’s 4,000 babies every day; That’s 1 baby every 20 seconds (Costa 102).

There are many different methods to go about aborting a child. There is Suction Abortion, this is the most common abortion technique in use today. In this procedure, A powerful vacuum tears the placenta from the uterus and dismembers the body of the developing child, sucking the pieces into an attached jar. The second method is dilation and curettage (D&C): In a D&C abortion, usually performed between seven and twelve weeks of pregnancy, the doctor inserts a curette, a loop-shaped steel knife, into the womb through the dilated cervix. As the curette scrapes the wall of the uterus, the baby is cut into pieces. The third method is dilation and evacuation (D&E): This method is similar to a D&C, except that forceps must be used to grasp the baby’s body because of the child’s advanced development. The baby is dismembered as the abortionist twists and tears the parts of the body and slices the placenta away from the uterus. Another method is salt poisoning, “Salting out” is the second most common method of inducing abortion and is usually used after sixteen weeks. The doctor inserts a long needle through the mother’s abdomen and injects a saline solution into the sac of amnionic fluid surrounding the baby. The baby is poisoned by swallowing the salt and his skin is completely burned away. It takes about an hour to kill the baby. After the child dies, the mother goes into labor and expels the dead baby. In spite of the horrible burning effect, some babies have survived “salting out” and been born alive. The other method is hysterectomy; Similar to the Cesarean section, the hysterectomy abortion is a surgical procedure whereby the baby is removed from the mother’s womb and allowed to die by neglect or killed by a direct act. The last method is prostaglandin abortion; Prostaglandin is

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