Why Is Abortion Murder

Abortion has been more and more of a controversial topic as of recently. The question that everyone is asking is quite simple, and yet so complex. “Is abortion murder?” Throughout history, the debate has had a great impact on our society and culture as we know it. Much changed after the ruling in the Supreme Court case in 1973. Roe v. Wade’s effect has brought many peoples’ opinion’s to change from favoring life to caring nothing about the death of an unborn child. Before answering the pointed question of whether or not abortion is murder, we must answer whether or not a fetus should be considered a life at all. People have different standards as to when life begins for an unborn child. Some argue that life does not begin until the baby is

Wade as evidence that abortion should be allowed. “It’s her body; it’s her right to do what she wants with it.” However, as previously stated, the fetus is not the mother’s own body. As well as this fact, many of those who reference this case do not know the gravity of what they quote. Roe v. Wade made abortion legal at any stage in the fetus’s life. The reason for the case in question is because Texas had a law prohibiting abortion unless the purpose was to save the mother’s life. Norma McCorvey wanted to have an abortion even though her life was not in danger. She claimed that this law violated her constitutional rights and that she should be able to have an abortion if she so desired to have one. Seven of the Supreme Court justices sided with her and declared that the law should be revoked. Abortion was ruled a “right to privacy” and the law was updated since then. “The Court ruled that abortion must be permitted for any reason a woman chooses until the child becomes viable; after viability, an abortion must still be permitted if an abortion doctor deems the abortion necessary to protect a woman's ‘health,’ defined by the Court in another ruling issued the same day as ‘all factors--physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age--relevant to the well-being of the patient.’ ” According to polls taken across the nations, “Sixty-one percent of Americans say abortion should be illegal after the fetal heartbeat has begun, which occurs in the first month of pregnancy. Seventy-two percent of Americans say abortion should be illegal after the first three months of pregnancy. Eighty-six percent of Americans say abortion should be illegal after the first 6 months of pregnancy. Only six to seventeen percent of Americans (depending on how the question is asked and by whom) believe abortion should be legal at any time, in all circumstances.