Abortion Should Become Illegal

Abortion Should Become Illegal

Topic: That abortion should become illegal

Every human being deserves the right to life. Abortion denies innocent

children this right. Sometimes, a variety of terms are used as an

alternative to the word “abortion”, “termination of pregnancy” being

the most popular. When we refer to this phrase, it suggests that an

abortion only puts an end to a physical condition, when, in reality,

an abortion puts an end to someone’s existence. To perform an

abortion, a doctor makes a physical attack on the baby living inside

the mother’s womb. Clearly, this represents a most vicious attack

upon the most basic of human rights – the right to life itself.

To many people, who are members of religious groups, abortion is

murder. They believe that a life begins at the time of fertilisation

and that this life should be respected even if the birth of a baby is

not intended. ‘In a world in which, adults control power and purse,

the foetus is at a disadvantage being small, naked, nameless and

voiceless. He has no-one except sympathetic adults to speak up for him

and defend him – and equally no-one except callous adults to condemn

and attack him…’ - Professor Sir William Liley. Recently there has

been much debate about the horrors now perpetrated in abortion

clinics, such as the abortion of babies expelled alive, or killed in

the womb only weeks from birth. These are horrors never contemplated

even by those who chanted that abortion was merely a “woman’s right to

choose”. In 1998 the death of Jessica Jane aroused much controversy

on abortion. The child’s mother decided she wanted no baby to

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we really going to make a better world by killing? Is a society which

accepts and overlooks the killings of innocent babies really going to

turn us from the violence around us? As Nobel Prize winner, Mother

Teresa of India says, ‘Peace begins in the womb’.

Therefore, it is evident that abortion should be illegal throughout

Australia because each life deserves basic human rights and these

should be respected, even an unborn child has the right to live.

Australia has a multicultural population and we must consider these

peoples views on abortion as many religions regard abortion as

unethical. Clearly we as these unborn children’s voices should

think of their existence as a human and we would not kill an innocent

human being for just living, as these babies are just living inside of

their mothers.