Because of anti-abortion legislation women avoid going to the hospital, often until it is too late, to avoid prosecution from police. In the cases of rape and incest the very idea of being forced to have the child of the woman's abuser is repulsive. There are also cases when a woman's health is put in jeopardy by having a child at all, forcing such a woman to bring a child to term, would be no less than attempted murder. If a woman is forced to give birth to a child she does not want, if left in that woman's custody, the child could potentially face hatred and resentment from the mother for the rest of its life. In countries all over the world, children are found dead and abandoned in places as degrading as garbage dumps. The only effective method of preventing unwanted births is abstinence, and this is just not a realistic objective.
A baby can sometimes disrupt a woman's pursuit of happiness. Even if she decides to give it up for adoption, she still has the burden of carrying the foetus for nine months. Having the option to perform an abortion can solve that obstacle. Taking away this right would be invading on a woman's constitutional liberty. The unwanted child also suffers. Most of the time the mother of the unwanted child is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of the child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and gets very little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any better. Only a small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable parents. But the rest remain in the foster care system, where there is little or no personal care. In both cases, the child has a poor education because of the lack of attention and discipline. He grows up to be unproductive individual or a menace to society. Many get involved in drugs and crimes. These individuals are also very violent; lacking morality due small amount of care they received themselves. In the long run, not only does the child suffer but also society, who has to tolerate his violent behaviour and crimes. An abortion can be seen as putting the child out of misery while he doesn't have the ability to reason or fear.
The big question in the matter is ‘When does life begin?’ Many people approve of abortion because they consider that a foetus is not an individual human until birth. They do not think abortion is murder because they consider the aborted foetus a mass or cells or tissue. Some people will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death. People also argue that a woman has the right to control her body and has the right to an abortion, but the foetus is a completely different life. Just because the unborn is dependent on the mother for nine months does not give anyone the right to end its life.
A mother kills her baby because it is unwanted, yet she is not charged with murder. The problem is that they have been killed legally because of abortion. Abortion is wrong and it shouldn't be legal. If a doctor killed a baby one minute after it was born, they would be charged with murder. But if they were to kill a baby one minute before it was born, and a minute before that and so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider life worthless and the next precious?
Abortion is the taking of innocent human life, which is wrong under virtually any circumstances. An unborn baby is more than potential life. An unborn baby is meaningful human life that should not be considered disposable. After conception, no event occurs in the development of the foetus that indicates a change in the foetus from not being human to becoming one. Human life begins with conception. A middle-aged person, a teenager, and an unborn baby are all in stages of human life. Killing the unborn baby is no more justifiable than killing the two other people. Abortion is a practice that should be prohibited by law because it basically amounts to murder.
An unborn baby's right to life should have priority over a woman's right to choose. No woman or man should have the power to decide if a baby is allowed to live. A woman's rights over her body do not give her the right to an abortion. If a woman has rights over her body, then the unborn baby has those rights too. The child has the right not to be killed. The appeal to a woman's right over her body as a justification for abortion backfires because the right must also be extended to the child. All things considered, abortion is not made justifiable by appealing to women's rights over their bodies.
