Hanain Majeed
English 1020
Abortion is Murder
Abortion or the act of terminating your pregnancy is murder. During the nine months that a woman is pregnant a baby is being developed in her womb. From the moment of conception, that embryo is a life since those two cells will become a baby. Abortion is killing your baby because you are choosing for that life to be taken away therefore taking that babies life and future away from them when they had no say in the matter. Abortion should be considered murder.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word murder is the unlawful killing of another human being. The trouble most people have with associating abortion with the definition of murder is the “human being” part. According to pro-choice advocates “the fetus is at best a potential human being and not yet an actual human being.” (Stephen Currie) This argument is showing that even pro choice people that argue that the fetus is not a human being still state that it will become a human life in their argument. The fact is murdering someone takes their future and life away from them and abortion does this also but to an unborn baby. Abortion takes away that young human life and the future of that baby.
“From the moment of conception, the fetus is an individual. It is not identical to its father, nor is it identical to its mother,”( ) that specific embryo at the moment of conception has a specific set of genes from each parent that is different. That combination has never been made and never will be recreated, that set of genes are specific and unique to that life that is being produced. Genes are what all of human beings are made of and are specific to each human, having that trait in an embryo at conception shows how early in development that an embryo is a potential human. This is an argument that can be made to prove that at conception that embryo is a human life. Many pro-choice arguments say that abortion is allowed during the first trimester due to the fact that the fetus has no heart rate or a good brain development. This is no means to say that the fetus will not develop a heart beat and a developed brain. In the first trimester the embryo is not developed but still has the genetic make up and the developing cells of becoming a human being.
The argument that unborn babies are not humans because they are dependant on another human being is not justifiable. If you were to use this argument then the killing of newborns would also be considered ok. Infants are completely dependant on their parents with no way of survival on their own. Infants need food, shelter, warmth, and care from their parents to survive just as an unborn child in a womb. Saying that abortion is allowed since the baby is unable to survive on its own would just be like saying killing of infants is allowed also. Killing infants is illegal and is murder, yet when babies are in the womb it is not considered murder, yet it should be.
The woman’s rights argument which is the main idea behind the pro-choice argument should not be used. Pro-choice supporters say that abortion is a right that women should have because they should make their own choices concerning their bodies. “Women’s “right to choose” abortion in the first trimester symbolizes liberation from patriarchal control over women’s sexual and reproductive lives,”( this statement shows how many people view the abortion decision as a right a woman has. The problem with this argument is the fact that it is not just the mother’s body; therefore it is not the mother’s job to choose to end a life even though the baby is inside of the mother. There are two lives involved in a pregnancy, the baby and the mother. It can’t be thought of as a woman’s right issue because no one has the right to choose to end a life, the choice to end a babies life should not be a right. Since there are two livers involved, shouldn’t anyone think about the babies right to live? An abortion involves two lives and the right to live is the most important right any human can be given, and we should not take that right away from the most innocent and fragile stage of humans. This is not a matter of womans rights to their body because it is not a tumor or wart being removed from the body but a whole other life. Abortion or murder of an unborn baby should not be considered a right for anyone.
Murder is premeditated according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word premeditated means “thought out, contemplated, or planned in advance.” When a murder is proved to have been planned out that person is charged with first degree murder. Having an abortion is premeditated; a lot of planning and thought goes into going to a clinic and terminating a pregnancy. This is the same as a premeditated murder, a very carefully planned out way to end a life. You cannot use an excuse as to not knowing the consequences of your actions from having sex to getting pregnant to getting the abortion. Abortion clinics require many days to think about going through with the abortion and even require counseling before the final decision. This shows that having an abortion you are very well informed as to what you are doing to your baby. An abortion is a premeditated way to kill an unborn baby which means it should be considered murder.
In the bible abortion is addressed "before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified [made holy] thee."( Stephen Currie) This is one of the thoughts that many Christians hold dearly in their beliefs. This is an argument that many people use. People that are for abortion think life starts at birth therefore abortion is justifiable. Others think life starts at conception and God knows you before you are even conceived, making it hard for people to agree with abortion or in their opinion murder. In this passage in the bible it is suggesting that God chose each child personally and blessed them while they are in the womb implying they are a human with a soul.
“The task force finds that the new recombinant DNA technologies indisputably prove that the unborn child is a whole human being from the moment of fertilization.”
(Alison Mutlock) This statement from well taught scientists and researchers that have studied the embryos and fetuses to see how similar their DNA are to adult human beings. At fertilization the scientists found that the recombinant DNA is that of an adult human therefore making the embryo at the moment of fertilization or conception a human being. Proving the embryo is a human at conception and ending the life of an innocent human is illegal and known as murder.
A baby is a human being from the moment of fertilization and throughout the whole term of the pregnancy. At any stage of the pregnancy it should be considered illegal to end the life of that human. The embryo or fetus does not have to have human characteristics, a heart beat, or be self dependant to be considered human. Many studies have shown that at conception the embryo has recombinant DNA and genes specifically for them, making that life a unique human. Abortion, or the killing of your own baby in your womb is wrong should be considered murder.
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