Abortion

The Wrong Choice

The abortion debate is raging in America. Both sides in the debate each strongly believe they are right. The pro-choice supporters see a woman's right to choose as central to the debate. The life of the baby is the most important concern of the pro-life advocates. Very little middle ground exists on the issue of abortion. Abortion is murder and should be illegal except in instances when the mother's life is endangered by the pregnancy.

Abortion is the taking of innocent human life, which is wrong under virtually any circumstances. The embryo is a person from the moment of conception. An unborn baby is more than potential life. Abortion is a practice that should be prohibited by law because it basically amounts to murder. An unborn baby's right to life should have priority over a woman's right to choose. No woman or man should have the power to decide if a baby is allowed to live.

Pro-choice advocates believe women's rights are jeopardized when the right to an abortion is taken away. The pro-choice camp fails to take into account that the baby has a right to life. A woman's rights over her body do not give her right to an abortion. If a woman has rights over her body, then the unborn baby has those rights too. The child has the right not to be killed.

The appeal to a woman's right over her body as a justification for abortion backfires because the right must also be given to the child. Abortion should not be allowed because it is immoral. There is no morally appropriate difference between deliberately killing a human being who has been born and deliberately killing a human being who is still inside his mother. Abortion has become morally acceptable to some simply because it is currently legal. Legality however, does not necessarily imply morality.

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