The Morality Of Abortion In The United States

Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before the fetus, an unborn child, has developed enough to live outside the mother on it’s own. This is called an induced abortion and these usually happen within the first trimester of the pregnancy. Many people think abortion is murder, but other people say that women should have a choice since it is their body. In the United States of America, there are two kinds of abortion. There is an in-clinic abortion and there is also an abortion pill. Three out of ten women in the United States have an abortion by the time they are 45, this means abortions are very common. If you are under eighteen and are thinking about having an abortion, your state may either require at least one of your parent’s permission

The fetus dies in the uterus but occasionally does not come out. This condition is known as a missed abortion. Abortion is where you remove the fetus from the uterus before it has reached a certain stage. This stage is called the stage of viability which is around the 20th week of pregnancy. An abortion may happen naturally which is also called a miscarriage.

People who are pro life believe that abortion is wrong and it should not be allowed because it kills the life of a living human being. People who support this statement have influenced many states to vote on papers that would make abortion illegal. This however does not include pregnancies caused by criminal acts or when the mother's life is in danger from having the baby. Pro-life supporters have an extreme opinion. They think that life begins at the very moment of conception. This would mean that abortion is murder and God tells us not to murder in the Ten

Killing an unborn baby is wrong, even if the human has not been born yet. Women are given two options involving abortion, to give the baby up for adoption or abort the baby. If a woman has an abortion, it gives women who cannot conceive a chance to have a child, but if a woman aborts the baby, it gives less of an opportunity for adoption. Ronald Reagan quotes “I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

Some definitions of abortion say that the procedure is done to preserve the well-being of the female or if the women were to get raped, she could have an abortion. That kind of abortion is called a therapeutic abortion. Fetuses cannot feel pain when most abortions take place. In 2010, Britain's Royal College of Obsetrecians and Gynaecologists reviewed that "most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception." The cortex does not become functional until the 26th week of the development of a fetus. This is much longer after abortions are