“Planned Parenthood provides more than 323,000 abortions each year … [with] an astonishing 30 to 40 percent of all abortions performed in the United States” (Sekulow). Today, most countries legalize abortion, the termination of a pregnancy, in an early stage of pregnancy. As technology improves from year to year, scientists have found safe methods for abortion medicinal and surgically. As a result, abortion is becoming a common practice for women. Even though some believe that abortion is moral because it protects a fetus from danger with no mean of harm, fetuses are lives just like the rest of us and abortion promotes irresponsible behaviors in the society.
Some people consider abortion as a protection for the fetuses. “Under the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 and U.S.
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It takes away the fetus' right to live without their permission. The only difference is that the murderers of these innocent lives walk away freely without feeling guilty nor being punished with an excuse of helping these babies. But what if they just want to sense the light? What if they just want to feel the air? What if they want to live even just an hour? We have no reason to block a wonderful life from having what they deserve. This is no difference than Victor in Frankenstein. Just as the monster exclaim to Victor, “how dare you sport thus with life” (Shelley 68). We can prevent a life from being created, but we cannot destroy it with a simple excuse. “During the process of fertilization, the sperm and the oocyte cease to exist as such, and a new human being is produced” (Irving). Life begins when an egg and sperm meet. The value of a fetus’ life is equivalent to us. We cannot ignore them. Also, if it is legal to murder a insentient human with a reason of help, killing a vegetative patient would also be legal. Lives are lives. Their value are not different depend on their size nor