Another argument to consider is that a newborn baby is surely the same it was just before birth. There is good evidence that a unborn child responds to sound-including music, but especially its mother's voice. It can suck its thumb or do a somersault from an early stage of its growth. It is hard to maintain that as soon as a baby is born it suddenly turns into a real person with real feelings. Why, then, should it be murder to kill an infant the day after it was born but not the day before?
If abortion was made illegal again this would mean that the government would be telling poor women they must bear and raise children they cannot afford to bring up; forcing teenagers to look after children they are not emotionally prepared to deal with; saying to women who wish for a career that they must give up want they want and stay home, and, worst of all, condemning victims of rape to carry and care for the unwanted children that were made as a result of a crime. The child would be a permanent reminder of what happened and I think that, at first, almost certainly it would be hard to love that child like it was made between two people that love each other.
Another point against abortion is that the way that a baby is formed is by the process of cell division which is that one cell becomes two, two become four, and so on. By the tenth day, the fertilised egg has become a sort of hollow ball moving around the womb. It destroys tissue in its paths and sucks on maternal blood as it struggles to get more energy. Then it clings to the wall of the uterus for a few days. By the third week the forming embryo is about 2 millimetres long and is developing various body parts. Only at this stage does it begin to be depend on the mothers food supply.
By the end of the fourth week, it's about 5 millimetres long. It is recognisable now as a vertebrate, its heart is beginning to beat. It looks rather like a newt or a tadpole. This is the end of the first month after conception.
By the fifth week, the brain can be distinguished, and the eyes and arms are apparent
The whole point of me describing the formation of a embryo is to distinguish when does the embryo become human? When do distinct and characteristic human parts such as a head actually emerge? It is obvious that drawing a exact line will not take into account individual differences. So, if there has to be a line, it should be drawn on the early side of the growth of the foetus not the late. There are people who object to having to set some numerical limit which at the moment is 12 weeks, and that is reasonable because their baby is not a law that can just be broken. If however there is to be a solution to this debate, and it is to try and settle this matter once and for all, it must specify, at least roughly, a time between which a foetus is a foetus and a foetus is a baby.
Generally Christians, and in particular the Orthodox Church takes the view that abortion is in fact murder. The reason for this is because the sixth Commandment does not allow the taking of life. This commandment, therefore, applies also to the taking of your own life, which is suicide, the taking of another's life, murder, and the taking of the life of the unborn which is abortion.
By placing harmless electrodes on people’s heads, scientists can measure the electrical activity made by thinking. Different kinds of thinking show different kinds of brain waves. But brain waves which are typical of human brains do not appear in the foetus until about the 30th week of growth. Foetuses younger than this however alive and active they may be lack the ability to be able to think. Trying to make a law about the fate of an animal is hard enough let alone a foetus that may and probably will have become a human being. If we are forced to choose a exact point at which you cannot have your baby aborted past, then this is where most people believe that the line should be drawn: before the baby develops the power to think.
In conclusion, it is apparent that it is up to the individual as to whether they feel abortion is morally right or suitable for them. Obviously, circumstances with regards to finance and relationship change, and in some cases abortion seems the only sensible option. However, it is important to consider all the options available and other factors such as religious beliefs, which may effect the final decision
