Abortion
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 1.21 millions abortions are performed in the united states each year. Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often it is performed in the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is not justified because many women are endangered by abortion, fetuses feel pain, and murder is illegal. Many women are endangered by abortion. Abortions may be expensive, so many women seek to have services wherever they find. This leads them to places that aren’t handled sanitary and puts their life at risk. A full-term pregnancy and childbirth are safer than performing an abortion. “abortion actually increases the chance of maternal death in later pregnancies” According to "Mother's Life at Risk." Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2016. Even though abortions cause a few deaths of the mother, abortions are not safe and should not be performed. Accordingly, to medical experts fetuses feel pain while abortions are performed. Robert J. White, a professor of neurosurgery stated that “ an unborn baby at 20 weeks is fully capable of feeling pain” at "Unborn Babies Can Feel Pain." During Abortion. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2016. That means that at 20 weeks the baby’s brain cells are formed, in that way they are ready to receive pain signals. After 8 weeks, the unborn child
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Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being by another. These human beings are innocent creatures that are defenseless and don’t know why they are being taken away from this world. “It should never be lawful to kill a human being” according to "Three Legal Reasons Why Abortion Should Be Banned." LifeNews.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2016. Many people don’t consider them human because they have to be dependent from a woman’s body to survive. The fetus is not responsible with anything that happened to his surroundings, there should not be no reason why abortions should be