By definition abortion is the termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or fetus that is incapable of survival. Why would it be incapable of survival? It didn't even have a chance!
In my opinion abortion is wrong unless the woman got pregnant by rape or either her or the baby's life was in danger. Many teenagers have abortions because they had sex, Using it as a birth control is not only wrong but is also teaching young girls and boys that its ok to make big mistakes such as this because we can take care of it.
Imagine if you will, your not being here. You could never make a difference, you would never be thought of or loved. How sad is that? Of course being that you were never born you wouldn't care. Now imagine how your life has played out so far. Maybe you are married? Maybe you just graduated high school and are heading to college? Those are memories; beautiful childhood memories for you, your family and your friends.
You are here on a writers forum, so apparently you want to be a writer, think about the babies who never get the chance to dream.
Now why do I even care what your opinion is of this? Well its not so much about abortion, I've been having the abortion debate for many years now with family and friends. My opinion is only one of millions but my question is when should abortion be called murder?
9 week fetus?
12 week fetus?
20 week fetus?
At 9 weeks the embryo is a fetus. Therefore it is growing, breathing, building so to speak. So is it at 9 weeks that the embryo is human? Does this human, although it cannot speak have rights? Should it?
Mother Teresa says...
[quote]Life is an individual right, not a privilege, for unborn humans Mother Teresa, in her amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey in February 1994 - "Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign... you must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth."[/quote]
Blind indeed.
