Abortion

             The media these days portrays sexual intercourse as a right of passage for teenagers. Any person in the United States can tell you that as soon as you turn your TV on, you are bound to find something containing some sort of sexuality. Yet, it is depicted as being no big deal. As more and more teens are inclined by peers and the media to have sex, the tendency to actually have sex also inclines. Commercials for condoms and other contraceptives are all over the place. What if the condom rips or doesn't work? Someone gets pregnant. What does she do? Nowadays, it seems that the typical decision would be to have an abortion; either partial birth or full term. America and society in general has deemed this inhumane act to be all right. What people don't seem to realize is that they are killing an innocent human being. No matter what you believe, no matter what you'd like to say the woman is holding in her womb, it is a human being.
             Years ago when a women would get pregnant she would have a baby. Today accidental pregnancies are solved by a method called abortion. With this method the newly formed fetus is basically removed from the mother's body and destroyed. Although the whole process of having an abortion seems not especially pleasant, they seem to be popular. Is this process considered murder? Many people feel that abortion should be the mother's choice. It is just another form of birth control. Yet many other people argue that abortion is plain and simple murder. They reason that if a woman feels responsible enough to have sex, she needs to be responsible enough to deal with the consequences. No matter what the circumstances may be. No matter how you look at it, you are killing someone. Murder is murder, and abortion is murder.
             The fourteenth amendment states that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without a good reason and a fair trial. Pro-life supporters use the fact that in the United Stat...

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