he Moral Issue of Abortion: An Annotated Bibliography
Kass, John. "Guns Feed Death Culture? what about Abortion?" Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb, 2018, pp. 2. SIRS Issues Researcher,https://sks.sirs.com. This is an article that speaks on both gun violence and abortion. John Kass discusses that if we are fighting to strengthen gun laws for the sake of innocent lives being taken, then why isn’t it the same for abortions? He poses the question: “Do some lives have more rights, because they are older and more powerful, leaving others with fewer or no rights, because they cannot speak or use bullhorns to shout, to tell us that they, too, are alive?” This is not only a battle for the innocent lives being taken in the womb but all lives in general. But
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The goal of this bill was to prevent killing babies that can start feeling pain after the 20 weeks mark. The United States is one out of seven nations that allow abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Damstra, who wrote this essay is completely against abortions at all costs. He is willing to understand the opposite side but can’t understand late-term abortions. After the 20 week mark the medical procedure crushes and tears apart the baby, and at this point the baby can feel that pain. After 25 weeks the medical procedure is to stab the baby’s heart or brain with a drug that induces a heart attack. Many nations have outlawed abortion after 12 weeks, but the United states couldn’t even pass the 20 week bill. A bill that was created to support and give medical care to those babies who lived through a failed abortion. This bill barely passed through office with all democratic representatives voting against …show more content…
Along with this, the goal is to completely restrict abortions and to start valuing the lives inside the womb as they are when they are born. This article mainly highlights a bill that was being created, there is a huge effort to completely ban abortions but has not been sent through yet. There have been many protests on the bill from both sides. Many people believe that this will affect the health of women, and that if a bill is passed declaring that life begins as at conception, then the value of the women goes down. The bill is considered as “extreme and reckless” according to Davison-Rippey, that if this bill goes through abortions will be banned, miscarriages would be investigate and Doctors could face charges. Within this article we hear the voice of a woman whose mom would have aborted her if abortion was legal at the time, and a woman who regrets her decision to her abort her baby. By allowing abortions we are stating that the unborn have no right to