Abortion

             Abortion is by far the most extreme, permanent, and devastatingly violent solution for an unborn child. The right to life is the most basic and most important right we have. To deprive someone, an unborn child for that matter, from that right is immoral and inhumane. This is an issue concerning a human life. Based on this undeniable fact the right to life applies and must be weighed in against all other considerations.
             Legalized abortion has to do with a woman's control over her body, and this has been the centralized argument for the opposing side. Certainly this right is very important, but is it enough to override the fundamental right to life? When one thinks about it, this right to control ones body is incompetent. No one would agree that a woman has the right to beat someone to death because she uses her fists, which are a part of her body. Some may even believe that the fetus is not a person until the first or second trimester. It is true, that during the first weeks of pregnancy, the fetus does not possess physical human characteristics such as feet, hands, or a face. In spite of this, does not that fetus consist of potential life regardless of its lack of physical human characteristics? It is a scientific fact that the first moment of human life is as that instant when a sperm cell unites with an ovum or egg cell. All things considered, abortion is not made justifiable by a!
             ppealing to a woman's right over her body.
             Abortion is killing a human life and can hence be considered as murder. Abortion has become acceptable simply because it is currently legal. Legality does not in contrast imply morality however. There is no morally relevant difference between deliberately killing a human being who has been born and deliberately killing a human being who is still inside its mother. Killing innocent people is immoral and illegal in the United States. In that sense, is not abortion illegal already? Conti...

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