Many people that are against abortions are raised in the church or are religious. They believe that abortion is murder, and that God does not approve of this. There is a book called “The Hand of God“, written by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the doctors that was involved in getting legislation for abortion passed in the 1960’s. Dr. Nathanson is now an ex-abortion doctor, who actually performed an abortion on his own child and felt no remorse. He himself states that he performed thousands of abortions in his career and supervised thousands more. He states in the book that a lot of the statistics that were used initially to assist with the passing of abortion were exaggerated in order to get the laws passed. In the book he tells of how he asked another doctor friend of his to video the abortions he performed using the new ultrasound equipment that had just become available and that he had just received. His friend worked at a clinic on the weekends and performed about 40 abortions a day for cash. They sat down and watched all of the ultra sounds the next day and were horrified as they saw the babies’ arms, legs, fingers and toes, head and neck, and internal organs sucked out. They watched as the skull was crushed in order to be removed. Up until the time of ultra sound no one had ever seen inside the womb, and had no idea how fetus’ acted and reacted.
There was one abortion that stuck in both of the doctors’ minds’ forever, and later became the movie “The Silent Cry”. As they watched the fetus’ body parts being torn off, this particular baby opened up his mouth and looked as if it was a crying and attempted to move away from the instruments. Both of the doctors felt that the child was reacting to the pain and looked as if he were crying, but since there is no air in the womb, no air could be emitted therefore there was no sound. Neither doctor ever performed another abortion. Dr. Nathanson was so affected by the video that he became a political advocate of anti-abortion laws.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the vast majority of women give the following reasons for having an abortion: they do not want to change their lifestyle, they feel they can not afford to have a baby, or they feel that they have problems in their relationship. Only one percent of women say that they are victims of rape or incest. Most people think that these are lame excuses, and totally un-called for. Women that have abortions that say that their relationship just isn’t right, that is a way of covering up the evidence that there is or was a problem. Secondly, the people who do believe in abortions believe that the fetus is not actually a person. People supporting a woman’s right to choose, view abortion in this way. The majority of the “choice” supporters are in the middle of the spectrum.
The decision to abort is a hard decision to make, but abortion may solve many problems that would have happened in the future if the baby were born. I think that abortion is right because the child may not be provided with a decent life, the child may be a child of rape, and the birth of the child may kill or seriously injure the mother if she goes through with it.
First, providing a child with its needs costs a lot of money. A USA TODAY study states that 34% of the people having abortions have an income lower than $25,000. A low income family would not be able to meet a child's needs. The family would have to spend extra money on food, nappies, clothing, and other baby products. A child would bring more of a financial burden upon the family, and the child would most likely grow up unhappy. Putting the child up for adoption is another option, but the child may begin to search for the parents later on in life and may make new problems arise. If a child cannot be provided for, then I think abortion should be an alternative.
Having abortions is a very sensitive issue, it has been in debate for many years and is not getting very far. I personally think that it is good in more ways then it is bad.
