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English II
12-8-2017
Since ancient times, abortion has been used for various reasons. The definition of
abortion as used in this text is: “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy”. Abortion has,
since ancient times, and still is a very controversial topic. Questions arise that can be debated on.
Some may ask: “Isn’t it my body, so can’t I do what I want?” and “What about rape cases or to
save the mother’s life?” While others may say: “What about the social ramifications?” or “Is
abortion moral?” Abortion has saved many lives, but only at the cost of others’. It should be
known that when women become pregnant (except for rape), they should accept the
responsibility that comes with producing a child and the child shouldn’t be the one that is
punished for the mistake of the parent(s). Abortions (especially multiple) promote the societal
acceptance of taking lives, numbing the conscious too. Abortion is a downright, inhumane,
disgusting act and the chance that babies feel pain while an abortion is taking place is
another reason that shows it is inhumane. To put it simply, abortion should be illegal
As stated by A. Warhol “You can't make [people] change if they don't want to, just
like when they do want to, you can't stop them.” This quote is used because many mothers are
not swayed or even open-minded enough to consider the unborn baby’s side of the issue. It is
immoral and just plain unfair to take a baby’s life away because of the mistake of a parent.
According to Mona Charen and BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), ‘Sure a woman has the
right to choose whether or not to become pregnant. She makes that choice before engaging in
sex. To make that 'choice' after a pregnancy is underway, merely as a matter of birth control, is
an immoral act.’ Put it simple, it is the responsibility of the mother to care for a child that they
have given birth to. Also when a mother wants to abort a baby just because he doesn’t want
to take care of it as it is as immoral as when a father says to do so. This shows how abortion
should be illegal because this shows that the abortions, which is the taking away of babies’
Another reason why to make abortion illegal is that it promotes the societal acceptance of
taking lives while numbing the conscious too. Our conscious should tell us that eating that extra
donut isn’t going to help in the long run and that running buck naked in the dead of winter isn’t
the best idea. Similarly, “Columbine Happens Every Day” by Michael Chapman explains that
abortion is a “sin to humanity” and should be “stopped before the mothers realize what they are
doing”. It also shows how it promotes a society that is “insensible to unborn babies being killed”.
Chapman goes on to explain that how abortion is being done yearly at more than 500,000 babies.
This again shows why abortion should be illegal because it shows the inhumanity of abortions
If one million babies dying in two years isn’t sad enough, Stuart W G Derbyshire says
that they actually may feel pain during their termination. “Current theories of pain consider an
intact cortical system to be both necessary and sufficient for pain experience. In support are
functional imaging studies showing that activation within a network of cortical regions correlates
with reported pain experience. Furthermore, cortical activation can generate the experience of
pain even in the absence of actual noxious stimulation.” he explains. Though some say that since
the parts of the brain that correspond to pain have not yet developed so the fetuses don’t feel pain
but no one actually knows if they do. The fact that there is a possibility that the fetuses feel pain
is just plain inhumane. Is this not reason enough to make abortion illegal.
Some people may argue that abortion is that many religious organizations and people of
faith support women's reproductive choice. Though some religions are pro-choice such as, the
United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church, and the Unitarian Universalist Association of
Congregations, still more religions are against. The Hindu Kaushitaki Upanishad states that
abortion is an equivalent misdeed to “killing one’s own parents”. Almost all translations of the
Bible say, “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but
there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands
and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life...” This really
shows how abortion is illegal because even the Bible, which is for the biggest religion on the
planet says that the killing of fetuses is punishable by death or even your parents.
To conclude, one million babies are dying in two years due to abortion. To help
humanity, abortion should be illegal. Not only the fact that they are being killed, but because it
degrades the mind parents should accept the responsibility that comes with producing a child and
the child shouldn’t be the one that is punished for the mistake of the parent(s). Also, abortions
(especially multiple) promote the societal acceptance of taking lives, numbing the conscious too.
Adding on, abortion is a downright, inhumane, disgusting act and the chance that babies feel pain
while an abortion is taking place is another reason that shows it is inhumane. For the most part,