there are over 3,000 abortions per day. Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies in the USA (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion (WHO). Imagine being a mother of a one year old child, and you are pregnant again. You go to a gynaecologist for help as you don't want children so close together. The doctor then asks you what you want him to do, and you tell him that you want to end your pregnancy. The doctor then tells you he has a better solution for your problem and it's less dangerous for your body. You then think the doctor is going to accept your request but the doctor continues and says that in order for you not to have to take care of two babies simultaneously, let's kill the one in your arms. This way you can have some time to be ready …show more content…
Keith L. Moore from essentials of human embryology journal state's, “ Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization.” Therefore, saying that life does not start at conception would be like saying that life came out of nowhere. Conception is defined as “the action of conceiving a child or of one being conceived” by the oxford dictionary. Going by that definition, if an abortion is done then that means a life would be coming to an end which by all means of ground is the same as murder. If people finally recognized that fact that life does actually begins at conception, then maybe lives of unborn children can be …show more content…
As stated in Henry E. Sigerist, The Hippocratic Oath, one section of the oath reads: “I will not give a woman a pessary [a device inserted into the vagina] to cause an abortion." The modern version of the Hippocratic Oath, written in 1964 by Luis Lasagna, still effectively forbids doctors from performing abortions in the line, "Above all, I must not play at God." This must then means that every abortion performed ever since, has been done breaking the code of conduct which is basically malpractice. Yet no doctor has been punished which does not seem right. If doctors cannot follow rules of their code of conduct then how can we know doctors have not been breaking others rules besides that. We trust doctors to do the best for the us the patients yet a rule is broken daily, a rule that protects the unborn. If the Hippocratic Oath was enforced, imagine how many lives of unborn children would be saved. Maybe then the illegalization of abortion would finally