Abortion Is Murder

The Perils Of Abortion

I would not have an abortion because it's murder and because of the consequences that go along with making a choice like that. Abortion is not last minute birth control because you were to irresponsible to use birth control to prevent a pregnancy in the first place. If you choose to have sex whether for procreation or recreation, you have to assume that you might get pregnant if you don't use any form of birth control and of course, any form of birth control in it's self is not a one hundered percent effective in preventing pregnancy.

Abortion is just an easy way out; it's used to avoid the hard learned lesson that comes from having the learning experience of dealing with consequences of your actions-you have sex and the result is a baby now you can either choose to have the opportunity to grow or abort responsibility. I have always believed that life begins at conception and therefore, when you abort a baby, you abort life and pretending that it doesn't have a social security number doesn't fool anyone.

I know that everyones says that it's the woman's body so she can do whatever she wants with her own body and it maybe true but that doesn't fool anyone either-the unborn baby has it's own blood type separate from the mother's so it's got to be a person or at last a human being and pretending that it's a blob of tissue definitely doesn't fool anyone. There are so many other things to consider besides the baby's life and consequences.

There's also the mother's physical health after the abortion, emotions, self-respect, and social responsibility to take into consideration. Abortion ruins her chances of ever having a normal pregnancy in the future by interfering with fertility, causing miscarriages, and misplaced pregnancies-then the increased risk of depression with leads to suicide or self-destructive behavior and she'll always wonder what her aborted baby would look like.

You would think that if people didn't know about the abortion then she would keep her self-respect but that's not so-respect is what other's think of you but self-respect is what you think of yourself and it doesn't matter if everyone else's knows because it still damages your self-repect making you think of yourself as a murderer. Social responsibility means society has advocated the murder of babies and blown it off as no big deal but it is a very big deal.

Because society has advocated the murder of babies, fetal tissue is routinely used and since the organs always have to be taken as soon as possible, some maybe removed while the baby still alive and now with all of this said, don't you think that this is a good enough reason not to be apart of the murder of unborn babies? I certainly do and I don't want it on my conscience when I'm trying to get through the pearly gates to heaven.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Siobhan MacIntyre]

First of all...well, let me start with a positive. I applaud the fact that you are resistant to the movement that writes abortion off as no big deal.

However, some of the "reasoning" behind having an abortion that you mentioned is naive and not precisely true--but I realize it comes from lack of experience. I will, therefore, lend you mine, and it's firsthand.

There is nothing easy about an abortion, so please don't say it's just taking the easy way out to avoid learning a hard lesson. Nothing is easy about the decision or the after-effects. To assume one has an abortion and then cavalierly goes on about their lives with no backward glance is patently untrue. There probably are a few heartless souls who can do that, but not everyone who makes that decision does it lightly or does it without a backward glance. Once one has experienced an abortion, one continually looks into the past; one is full of regret and anguish and heartache. One wonders what life might have been like had one chosen differently.

Abortion does not ruin a woman's chance of having a normal pregnancy. I've had two normal pregnancies that have resulted in two beautiful children, with no complications during gestation. Abortion runs the risk of damaging the uterus, the biggest risk being that of a perforated uterus through a carelessly performed procedure, which can result in septicimia, the removal of the uterus, or death. Miscarriage usually occurs because there's something wrong with the development of the fetus--and most women who have a miscarriage have never had an abortion.

And now I must disagree with my good friend Jinx below--no tremendous progress has been made through stem cell research from fetal tissue, but there has been from (human umbilical) cord blood cells. There is a more abundant supply of stem cells in Wharton's jelly (the gelatinous substance within the umbilical cord) than can be harvested from an embryo, and they are less likely to be rejected by the immune system or form tumors. However, she's completely right in that most abortions are performed in the first eight weeks of pregnancy and most organs have not developed, so organ harvesting is...science fiction??

When I became a Christian, I came to the faith with a lot of tragic experience, and this perhaps makes me very sensitive to the judgmentality of those who condemn without grace or mercy. Condemnation...I can't do it. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. That's not going to be me. There are no degrees of sin; it's all equal in God's eyes, so I can't sit here and point my finger and call people murderers. I can't sit and rain condemnation and judgment on their heads when I sit with blood on my own hands.

If I were to ask you anything, I would ask that you reconsider the tone of this essay. When making a persuasive argument, you must persuade, not whack people over the head with your message. Appeal to people with well-researched facts, testimonials, and compassion, and you will see a more positive effect.

[Jinx]

I think you need to do some more research, but your opinion is your opinion, after all. Some people have abortions because they've been raped. Some people have miscarriages without ever having an abortion. Some abortions are done early enough that there are no organs to be taken because the fetus hasn't developed enough. However, Stem Cell research can be done, which could save hundreds more. You don't want it on your conscience. Good for you. Don't have an abortion. I can't have children, but if I could, who has the right to tell me whether I can have an abortion or not? No one. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm not saying you're right, either, because this is an age-old debate that will never settle and everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion on the subject.