Having a child is often looked upon as a wonderful experience full of joy, but not everyone thinks this way. Abortion is a sensitive and heavily disputed issue affecting our society. Many people feel that abortion is evil because it is killing an unborn child. On the other hand, others believe that it is a woman’s right to choose especially in certain situations such as rape, or health issues endangering the mother’s life. Statistics show 1.3 million abortions are performed yearly in the USA and 43 million worldwide. Pro-choice is defined as: Favoring legalized abortion as an option for an unwanted pregnancy. Pro-choice groups claim that foetuses are not independent, self-determining beings, and that abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, …show more content…
With the advent of sonograms and live-action ultrasound images, neonatologists and nurses are able to see unborn babies at 20 weeks post-fertilization or younger respond physically to external stimuli such as sound, light and touch. This sense of touch is so acute that even a single human hair drawn across an unborn child’s palm can cause the baby to make a fist.
Surgeons entering the womb to perform corrective procedures on tiny unborn children have seen those babies flinch, jerk and recoil from sharp objects and incisions.
There are alternatives to abortion that a woman can do to ensure the best possible outcome for her baby:
• Adoption. There are many ideas about adoption and many myths that cause great fear amongst women who find themselves in an unwanted pregnancy situation. You may think adoption will prohibit you from having children living at home in the future, or that social services will be involved in your future pregnancies, believing you an weak parent. This is simply not the case. There are also more open adoptions taking place, meaning some contact can still be made by the birth parents if