Abortion

Abortion
Abortion is the worst thing a woman can do against human dignity. It is a crime
against life. No woman has the right to kill a new living being. Many countries
ban abortion and many institutions fight against it. Abortion is immoral and it
should not be legalized. Abortion is also a threat to the mother's health. A
woman can suffer an infection or internal bleeding. She could also become
sterilized, the permanent inhability to bear a child. Abortion not only kills
the baby but may kill the mother too. During an abortion, despite the use of
local anesthesia, 97% of the women report severe pain, and if a more powerful
drug is used she could suffer dangerous side effects. Many complications are
common after an abortion, like inflammation of the reproductive organs. As well,
there is strong evidence that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer.

Women that abort increase their chances of getting breast cancer by 50%, and
teenagers with no previous pregnancies that abort after the 8th week increase
their probability by 80%. Unicef states that 250,000 women die every year
because of legal and illegal abortions: 75,000 of them die of self-inflicted
abortions; 75,000 die of convulsions; and the other 100,000 die of blood
poisoning caused by an infection of the uterus. Therefore, if abortion is
legalized there will be not only more fetal murders but also more mothers will
die. None of the methods women use to abort are completly safe. One of the most
common methods used is Suction Aspiration. The doctor uses a special tool to
suck the baby into a collection bottle. Great care must be taken to prevent the
uterus from being damaged, which would cause hemorrhage. A woman with hemorrhage
will need a blood transfusion that could cause her AIDS. Also infection may
easily occur if fetal tissue is left behind in the uterus. Another method used
for babies as old as twenty four weeks, is the Dilation and Evacuation. Sharp
jaws are used to grasp different parts of the unborn baby which are then torn
away. The skull of the baby must be crushed to facilitate the procedure. Another
technique used by a lot of pregnant women is the RU486. The RU486 are pills used
to abort the undesired child. These pills have very dangerous side effects. They
could cause severe bleeding, nausea, vomiting, pain, and even death. In France a
woman died because of this drug while others suffered life threatning heart
attacks. Also RU486 can cause severe malformations in later pregnancies.

Therefore the baby is not the only one that is endangered. The baby's mother not
only has to deal with physical consequences, but also psychological problems
that could last for a lifetime. Women that abort usually suffer severe traumas.

Once, a woman was rapped by five men. She didn't want to have the child, but her
pain and embarrasment were so great that she couldn't abort until the last
month. She is still in psychological treatment. Psychologist Wanda Franz states,
"Women feel worthless because they failed at the most natural of human
activities, the role of being a mother." Women report horrible nightmares
of children calling them from a trash can full of body parts and blood. Surgical
abortions aren't as traumatic as chemical abortions. Women having chemical
abortions often see the complete tiny bodies of their babies and are even able
to distinguish the developing hands and eyes. So traumatic is this for some
future mothers that it is recommended that women that are not prepared for this,
do not take the drug. Researchers call these phychological problems the Post

Abortion Syndrome (PAS). Women that suffer from PAS experience drug and alcohol
abuse, personal relationship problems, repeated abortions, and even suicide. Of
all the women that abort, 56% feel guilty and suffer PAS. In the United States
there are over 3000 Pregnancy Crisis Centers which help women that are facing
unplanned pregnancies. They make the future mothers realize that her baby
deserves to have the chance of living. They tell them that if they can't support
the baby then she could give it up for adoption but not kill him. Do women have
the right to steal the life of a new living being? Killing a person is illegal,
so why should a fetal murder be legal? You have to ask yourself these questions
and realize that when a woman aborts, she is acting like any other murderer.

Researchers have discovered that life begins at the moment of conception in the
mother's uterus, therefore abortion ends a human life and should be punishable
by law. As well, nine short months of pregnancy is a small cost for a life
without physical and health problems, think about it.

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