Abortion is Immoral Because Life Begins at Conception

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Abortion is Immoral Because Life Begins at Conception

During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most debatable subject of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. There are many points of view toward abortion but the only two fine distinctions are "pro-choice" and "pro-life". A pro-choicer would feel that the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of the mothers and the state has no right to interfere. A pro-lifer would hold that from the moment of conception, the embryo or fetus is alive, but others approve of abortion because they believe that a fetus is not human until birth.

A mother kills her baby because it is unwanted, yet she is not charged with murder. Is this right? Believe it or not, this has happened more than twenty million times in the past twenty years. The problem is that they have been killed legally because of abortion. If a doctor killed a baby one minute after it was born, he would be charged with murder. But if he were to kill a baby one minute before it was born, and a minute before that and so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider a life worthless and the next precious?

In the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women with incomes under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens cli...

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...ll continue to be protested for the rights of the unborn. Life begins at conception. Before birth the child's heart beats, the gastric juices flow in the stomach, and all its necessary organs have been made present. This is a child that thinks, dreams, and feels pain. Maybe soon the abortion issue will reverse, and people will see the rights of the unborn as greater importance than that of a personal right.

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