Lexi
Mrs. K
Eighth Grade Writing
December 13, 2016
Anti-Abortion
My life has
awarded me many accomplishments. Four
cancer antidotes have been discovered because of the brain it gave me. Three Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded
for the character it gave me. Two
wonderful children will carry on my legacy because of the amazing spouse it
gave me. One action made my life - you
know the one that was supposed to help so many - disappear. Why don’t you know me? Really though, you should know everything
about me and my life. I mean, I am your
child after all and everyone should know at least the bare minimum about their
children. You don’t know me because you
choose to have an abortion, thereby killing me before I could prove myself to
you and the to the whole world; all because you had some sort of a valid
reason. Just a few weeks into your
pregnancy- my brain didn’t have the chance to fully develop, my character never
came into the world, and my spouse died lonely.
However, in the eyes of the law, you have done nothing wrong because you
had a “good” reason and no one pushed you or forced you to have the
procedure. Because no one gave me a
chance, no one knows the cure for incurable diseases secretly lay hidden,
waiting to be discovered, in my, now aborted, developing brain. Every fetus (hereafter referred to as “baby”),
at any age, deserves the right to live because:1) abortion equals
murder:2)abortion can cause physical and emotional harm to the mother; and 3)
abortion kills babies with organs, like brains and hearts, at various stages of
development.
The
definition of murder is, “the unlawful, premeditated killing of one human being
by another” (Oxford Dictionaries).
Premeditation means to plan before taking action. Accordingly, abortion should be defined as
“legal murder”. Everything clicked when
I read, “When people murder someone, they sometimes say that the person was
sinful, however when you kill an unborn baby you can’t say they are sinful. An
unborn baby is literally an innocent life. It hasn’t sinned; it hasn’t done
anything wrong because no one has given them a chance to do anything”
(Dyar). How can you or anyone disagree
on what Dyar stated? Each aborted baby
did not cause themselves to be created. When
it never could have been the baby’s fault, it can’t be said that this counts as
a sin against the baby. Don’t believe
embryos and fetuses are human? Consider this, “Every new life begins at
conception. This is an irrefutable fact of biology” (Abortion Facts). Frogs, giraffes, sparrows, humans, all start
as a living being with a specific DNA for what and who each will be. Even though none look the same two years
later, each has have just reached a different stage of its life. Abortion’s actual definition states, “Abortion
is defined as induced termination of pregnancy before a fetus is capable of
survival as an individual” (Dyar). How
the abortion will be performed, when it will occur, and where it is preformed -
“induced termination” shows how far people go to plan out this event. Thus taking us back to premeditation and then
to murder. Abortion of a baby at any
stage of development in the womb is premeditated murder.
Each week a
baby shows more signs of development and growth in the womb. Just think, “An embryo’s heart begins to beat
between 18-24 days after conception” (Clowes).
This means that after just 2.5 weeks the “thing”, that could later be
aborted, has a beating heart in its little chest cavity. In just another 2.5 weeks, another sort of
magic happens, “This is when the baby’s brain, spinal cord, heart and other
organs begin to form” (Fetal development: The 1st trimester). It all happens five weeks into the pregnancy;
we can see this happening on ultrasounds.
Doesn’t this sound like a truly magical time? Magic that mothers experience daily during
pregnancy. How can you validate killing
something that is so magical? Just eight
weeks into the pregnancy, “A fetus is likely to feel pain as early as 8 weeks
after conception” (Clowes). Many take
the chance to hurt this little being just to live without having to raise
it. We will never know if the little
beings feel pain from abortions because they can’t talk for themselves. After learning all of this I was saddened to
read a chart that showed at less than nine weeks of pregnancy equals 61.8% of
all abortions (Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States). All of this development and growth under its
belt and and most babies are aborted at this point. Think about all the work you put into a big
project, like remodeling a house, and after less than nine weeks, it is
destroyed.
Abortion
doesn’t just destroy the development, growth, and life of babies, it also
effects and could destroy the mother’s life.
After an abortion, women can suffer many negative health problems. Dyar’s quote shows, “91 percent of abortions
have negative health outcomes ranging from increased risk of breast cancer to
psychological problems,” (Dyar). As it
turns out, much evidence can be found that shows abortions negatively affect
mothers later in life. One way it can
affect mothers is, “A 1996 meta-analysis found a 30 percent increase in breast
cancer risk among post-abortion women” (Stark).
Breast cancer is no joke. My
friend’s mom died of breast cancer; it seems to be one cancers that is
difficult of which to rid oneself. Even
if women who have had an abortion avoid breast cancer, “Psychological Risks are
depression, nervous disorders, sleep disturbances, sexual dysfunction, alcohol
and drug abuse, eating disorders, child neglect or abuse, divorce or chronic
relationship problems, and suicide” (Research on the Psychological and Physical
Effects of Abortion). Why would someone
chose to go through all of this to
murder a baby and just to not have to raise it?
My body, my
choice. Commonly misunderstood, this reason that “supports” Pro-Choice and
abortion, actually could tear their cause apart if more knew its flaw. Many believe in the truth of the statement,
“A woman has the right to decide what she can and can’t do with her body”
(Arguments in Favour of Abortion). What
if I told you the baby/fetus or whatever you call it, never existed as a part
of the mother’s body? This flawed fact
has been overused; everyone believes that a baby is a part of the mother’s
body. Now, consider this, my little
non-believer, “The slogan “My Body, My Choice”, betrays a tragic
misunderstanding of what is taking place inside the womb. At no point in
pregnancy is the developing embryo or fetus simply a part of the mother’s body”
(Part of the Mother’s Body?). The
developing baby is a separate and distinct individual. Unlike siamese twins,
the mother and baby never share body parts.
Also, the baby develops its own unique DNA, different from the DNA of
the mother meaning they could not survive connected or sharing any body
parts. No living being can live with two
different and unique sets of DNA. After
learning this, how can anyone continue to support the slogan, “My body, my
choice”? Those little children had no
say in the choices made affecting their little, individual bodies.
Your
children grow up, learn more, and have a good time, but what about those who
never had the chance to learn and grow? All
the lives they could have touched will be left unaffected; some might even
chose different paths that will lead to tragedy. Do you want to be able to tell your children
that you could have potentially saved those aborted babies using your
knowledge, but you didn’t? I don’t. Spread the word. Every baby, of any age, deserves the right to
live because abortion is legal murder, it kills babies with organs at varying
stages of development, and post-abortion mothers experience physical and mental
health problems. Save lives. Tell what abortion really does to anyone
contemplating having the procedure done.
Talk to them.
Works
cited
“Arguments in favour of abortion”. BBC, 2014. Web.
14 December, 2016.
Clowes, Brian, PhD.
“The Facts of Life”. Front Royal, VA: Human Life International,
2001.
Web. 14 December, 2016.
Dyar, Clair. “Abortion
is Legal Murder”. Capital City Weekly, 13 April, 2011. Web.
14
December, 2016.
“Fact #1: Every abortion kills an innocent human being”. Abortion
Facts, 2016. Web. 14
December, 2016.
Guttmacher Institute.
“Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States”. Guttmacher
Institute, July
2013. Web. 14 December, 2016.
“Murder”. Oxford Dictionaries. 14 December, 2016.
“Part of the Mother’s Body?”.
Loxafamosity Ministries, Inc., 25
July, 2015. Web. 14
December, 2016.
Stark, Paul. “How
abortion hurts women”. NRL News Today, 23 August, 2013. Web.
14
December, 2016.
The Elliot Institute. “Research on the Psychological and
Physical Effects of Abortion.” 16
September, 2016. Web.
14 December.
The Mayo Clinic Staff.
“Fetal Development: The 1st Trimester”.
Mayo Foundation for
Medical Education and Research, 1998. Web.
14 December, 2016.
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