Persuasive Essay Abortion

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Abortion: The Right to Choose As I was doing research, I came across an article by Napolitano and I found a startling statistic: Abortion takes the life of innocent human beings who are the most vulnerable in our society. Abortion is today the most frequently performed medical procedure in the United States. American physicians perform about two abortions every minute of every hour of every day: about 1 million a year since 1973. (Napolitano) Abortion became legal in 1973, because of the court case of Roe vs. Wade. Abortion is a safe medical procedure that ends pregnancy. The procedure that is performed removes the fetus from the uterus. This is a main concern in the United States. The debate to keep it legal or have it illegal is divided …show more content…

An abnormality in a baby would be that it doesn’t have a brain or that it hasn’t fully developed the back or spine. An abortion is necessary for that, because it might not be able to survive in the real world. According to the medical article, abortions happen because a baby might have a disorder, such as Down-syndrome, Huntington disease or Tay-Sachs disorder (Medical). Some parents are not capable of taking care of a child with disabilities and therefore, they get an abortion. I think that they make this tough choice because they don’t want the baby to suffer when it comes to the world. They’re looking out for the baby and relieving its pain by not bringing it to the world. I believe that an opponent would agree with an abortion in this situation, because of the severe disorder and that it may not survive outside of the womb. I also think that this is a key moment for the women, because they’re making the right decision if they know that the baby won’t survive. So the mom can choose, but shouldn’t the child have the right to …show more content…

Is rape a reason to have an abortion? Many of the viewpoints that I looked at believe that rape shouldn’t be a reason to have an abortion. The baby that is going to become a life shouldn’t be a victim. The life that is growing inside the victim is an innocent child and shouldn’t suffer the same consequences as the victim. On this journey, I agree with pro-life that rape is not a justification to have an abortion. In the words of Andrew Napolitano: Rape is among the more horrific violations of human dignity imaginable. It is a crime committed by the male, not the female—and certainly not by the child it might produce. When rape results in pregnancy, the baby has the same right to life as any child born by mutually loving parents. Only the Nazis would execute a child for the crimes of his or her father.

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