Argument Essay
Anairis Velazco
Professor Watson
HCOM 211 Abortion
The debate of whether abortion is right or wrong has always been a controversial topic. On one hand, there is pro choice, which basically means everyone should be given the chance of choosing if they want to abort their own baby or not. On the other side, there is pro life, which basically states no one should ever abort.
I firmly believe in pro life because no child deserves to be killed when it’s not his or her fault. Life begins the moment of conception; abortion is akin to murder as it is the act of taking human life. [1] It is the equivalent to murder and therefore, should not be permitted. The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was enacted "to protect
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A 2008 peer-reviewed study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health found that "Young adult women who undergo abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent depression." A peer-reviewed 2005 study published in BMC Medicine found that women who underwent an abortion had "significantly higher" anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale up to five years after the pregnancy termination. A 2002 peer-reviewed study published by the Southern Medical Journal of more than 173,000 American women found that women who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term. A 1996 study published in the British Medical Journal reported that the mean annual suicide rate amongst women who had an abortion was 34.7 per 100,000, compared with a mean rate of 11.3 per 100,000 in the general population of women. In the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology study of men whose partners had abortions found that 51.6% of the men reported regret, 45.2% felt sadness, and 25.8% experienced depression. [4] As you can see, the psychological damage abortions leave is crucial and often takes people by surprise because they don’t expect to be left with so much sadness. All in all, abortion should not be treated lightly and should be researched more by many people. After all, would you want this to happen to