What is abortion? Is it more than people say it is? Are there really innocent lives at stake? Does it have more meaning to it than what the dictionary definition states? Is abortion too easy to access for teens? Those questions and more will be discussed.
             First the dictionary definition of abortion; Expulsion or extraction of the fetus from the womb before it is viable, usually before the twentieth week of gestation. Truly, there is more to abortion than any young desperate women could really see. Abortion is killing a living being. Not only does it kill it, but it could harm the women and make it impossible to conceive later in life.
             The definition state that abortion takes place before the twentieth week. Did you know that the baby's hearts begin beating on the eighteenth day after being conceived? Also, doctors have begun using EEG, to detect brain wave activity to determine death. If a baby's brain has activity at about forty – forty-three days after being conceived, shouldn't it be considered a living being, after that amount of time? A baby is a baby right away. A baby is defined with forty-six – forty-seven chromosomes. If the baby was still part of the egg and sperm it would only consist of twenty-three chromosomes. Abortion is defined as: "to contract a fetus before it is viable." A Within twenty days a fetus becomes viable. Viable is defined as: "Capable of living and developing normally as a newborn infant."(5)
             Young women can make an appointment, talk to a doctor, and prepare for the abortion in ten minuets from their own computer. Young teens can go to an abortion clinic and their parents never have to be notified.
             Abortion is a serious thing, that isn't always taken as serious as it should. When young girls go to their appointments they are not always told about the risk of having an abortion to the severity that it should be explained. The main and probab...