Abortion

Abortion

Abortion

As of right now, abortion is legal in all
nine months of the pregnancy for any reason. This controversial issue is
a question of how important the value of life is. The turning point came
in 1973 when the Supreme Court's decision in Roe vs. Wade saying, that
women have the right to murder an innocent child only up to 24 weeks.

This false perception is fueled part by groups supporting abortion rights
and it is then uncritically unaccepted by the media. The fact is that the
current law allows a woman to get an abortion for any reason she deems
necessary.

It seems ironic that a people can get so
emotional when it comes to animal rights, yet see no wrong in ripping a
developed baby from the protection of the mother. It is not the child's
fault that he or she was conceived. Some people argue that the developing
is not technically a child yet because it cannot live on its own. Most
of the procedures in murdering the growing child can be painful to the
baby and be harmful to the mother. So how can we as a nation make sure
criminals are executed painlessly and let children be murdered by extremely
painful measures. At 18 days after conception, a baby's heart is already
beating, and at 6 weeks, brain waves can be measured. At 8 weeks, the stomach,
liver, and kidneys are functioning, and the fingerprints have formed. At

9 weeks, the baby can feel pain.

Here are some methods of early abortion:

Vacuum Curettage: powerful suction tube
inserted through the cervix and into the womb. The unborn child is torn
apart by the force of the suction; the fetal body parts and placenta are
sucked into a jar. Possible complications include infection, cervical laceration
and uterine perforation.

Mifepristone: also known as RU-486, the
chemical causes an abortion by interfering with the function of the placenta,
starving the unborn child to death.

Prostaglandins are then administered to
expel the fetus. This method of abortion takes place over the span of several
days; the average woman using it bleeds heavily for more than nine days,
but some women have bled for over four weeks. Mifepristone is just beginning
to be used in the US. Long-term health risks are not yet known.

Methotrexate: though not approved by the

FDA for this use, a methotrexate injection kills the unborn child by interfering
with the growth process (cell division). Several days later, the woman
is treated with prostaglandin (misoprostol) suppositories to expel the
fetus; the woman then aborts the child at home: It also requires three
visits to a doctor to complete the process.

Methods of Late Abortion:

D&E: the cervix is pried open. Using
forceps, the abortionist tears the child out of the womb, limb by limb.

The child is then reassembled to assure that no fetal parts are left inside.

Possible complications include infection, cervical laceration and uterine
perforation.

Prostaglandin: also called misoprostol,
this chemical, which induces premature labor, is given as suppositories
or an injection; live births are common. Hazards include convulsions, vomiting,
and cardiac arrest.

Digoxin Induction: involves injecting a
lethal chemical directly into the baby's heart followed by labor induction
with prostaglandin. Saline Abortion: a long needle is inserted into the
woman's abdomen, and a salty solution is injected into the amnionic fluid.

The salt poisons the child, burning its lungs and skin. A dead baby is
then delivered within 24 hours. This method is being used less frequently
for abortion due to the serious health risks to the woman.

Hysterotomy: like a c-section, an incision
is made in the woman's abdomen. The baby is removed then allowed to die
by neglect. This procedure carries the same health risks as a c-section.

D&X: also known as "partial-birth abortion"
this dangerous method of late abortion, termed "bad medicine" by the American

Medical Association, involves pulling the baby out feet first into the
birth canal while the head remains in the uterus. The abortionist then
makes a hole in the back of the skull to remove the brains with a suction
catheter. The head collapses allowing the child to be removed in one piece
.

700,000 abortions where the child is older
than nine weeks are preformed in the United States each year. What is interesting
is that 95 percent of the abortions are done s a means of birth control.

Only one percent is performed due to rape and one percent is do to fetal
abnormalities. The remaining 3 percent are due to the mother's health problems
.

People on the pro-choice side often argue
that the child in the womb is not a child until it is born. That has been
proven wrong. The child is a person as soon as it is conceived. The moment
the sperm unites with the egg, a miraculous process takes place. The cells
begin to divide into the genes that will or would make the child unique
that would never be duplicated again. How can you say,"It is the mothers
choice to have her kid." You are right it is her choice, don't have sex.

What is a major factor is that most of the abortions are done by women
between 14- 24 who have had conceived the child out of wedlock.

We justify killing the innocent children
saying that the Earth is overpopulated. No, we are not. If the Earth is
getting overpopulated then, why is the standard of living getting better.

When we eliminate a child, we could have eliminated a child that could
of solved a way to overcome a population problem. It is sad to see this
nation fall to moral decay. This nation was founded on Godly principles
and as we slowly slip away from the morals that this country was built
on, we as a people will experience more problems. The value of human life
is much more important than the rights of animals and yet more people believe
that the rights of animals is the same as humans. It is not. So then, why
does this nation believe the killing of innocent, defenseless human babies
is all right? Because they have been blinded from the truth.

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