...Abortion is Murder Abortions, we all know what they are and we all have our own opinions on the matter. The laws regarding abortion have been debated, fought over, petitioned, and discussed, whether calmly or very heated, for years. It is a never ending war. You are either for or against this issue. For some it is a personal rights issue. For others it is a moral issue. Some see this as the woman’s right to take charge of her own body and make the decision as to what happens inside it, while others look upon abortion as an abomination and murder. Which side do you take? There is no middle ground on this. One cannot be against it for themselves, but ok with it for everyone else. What is an abortion? Abortion is defined as the deliberate induction of delivery during pregnancy before the infant has reached full term. Normally this is done within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, but can be done throughout the entire pregnancy. When did abortions truly begin? Well, a definite time frame has not been found, however there are abortions dating back as far as 1550 BC and records in China dating back to 500 BC when royal concubines were made to get them. The fight for and against abortion has been raging since about the 18th century. Christian churches allowed a woman to get an abortion as long as it was before she could feel movement. Once the 18th and 19th centuries hit the war began. In the 1800s abortions were done mainly in “back alley” practices which caused deaths and infections...
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...has power to give and take life. I think that abortion is brutal murder. The fact that the baby is in the womb doesn’t mean its not alive. Some believe that abortion is necessary in some situations and the right thing to do to in order to move on and be successful in life. For...
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...BRISTISH COLUMBIA BAPTIST COLLEGE ABORTION, AN ACT OF MURDER A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO PASTOR JUSTIN WAMSLEY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE ENG 101 COLLEGE WRITING BY MARIA KRISTIANNE PAGALUNAN SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA 10 DECEMBER 2014 THE OUTLINE I. Thesis Statement Abortionists are guilty of taking the life of an innocent, unborn baby prematurely; completely disobeying the commandment of the Lord. II. Main Idea #1 Genesis 1:27 The Bible said that human beings, us, are made in the very image of God. Psalm 139:13-19 “…for I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” a. Abortion destroys and interferes with the work of the Lord. b. Abortion disannuls the plan of God. c. Concluding with the thought of ‘Children are a blessing from the Lord”. III. Main Idea #2 Exodus 20:6 The Bible repeatedly condemns the killing of the innocent. It is an act of murder which goes against one of the commandment of the Lord. “Thou shalt not kill”. Deuteronomy 27:5 The shedding of the innocent blood a. Abortion promotes killing. b. Abortion promotes child abuse. c. Abortion devalues life. IV. Main Idea #3 Isaiah 30:18 The Bible talks about a God being a ‘God of Justice’. a. The Bible said that we are to love unconditionally and show compassion. b. Abortion shows a lack of natural affection and faith in God. c. How can you kill without caring? d. How can you kill someone and think nothing...
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...For a family having a baby is a very happy time in their lives and many would agree. Worldwide 361,481 babies are born each day. Out of all of these babies born 21 percent of them are aborted. According to dictionary.com abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Many argue whether or not abortion is considered murder. Some say that the fetus is not considered a “human being” until nine weeks so it is not murder, but what about the other 21 weeks? Is it considered murder after that point? There are so many arguments about this very touchy topic, as to if and at what point is abortion considered murder and if it really is harmful to the mother, but the facts clearly...
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...After reading “Murder on Abortion Row” and the official court transcripts on the John Salvi’s case I would have found the defendant John Salvi incompetent to stand trail until he was willing to work better with his defense team. In the official court transcripts John Salvi repeatedly stated that he did not have to answer questions that he did not want to answer. John Salvi kept using his Fifth Amendment and avoided answering many questions. John Salvi also repeatedly accuses the psychiatrist to be a part of the prosecution team, and he did not like it. According to the legal requirements of legal competency John Salvi should not have been competent to stand trial. The legal requirements to be competent are to be able to adequately communicate...
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...Ever since the Roe vs Wade case abortion, has become a highly controversial issue. With about a million babies dying every year through this practice, it has escalated into something unimaginable (Brown). This issue has many supporters and non-supporters ranging from women who’ve had the procedure, to the doctors that carry it out, to the protesters in front of the clinics demanding that the atrocities stop. So what exactly is abortion? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary an abortion is the medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus. So basically you’re killing a baby and taking a precious human life. Supporters of abortion believe that the fetus doesn’t count as a human until they are brought into the...
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...Universidad de las Américas. Mayor in R.R.I.I. EN361-22 Hills Peter Matthew Gálvez Manuel 76251 Abortion Controversy September 22, 2014 Abortion Controversy. Abortion is a very sensitive issue. Many people are constantly debating whether abortion should be allowed or not. Some people think abortion is very bad and that it should not be allowed at all. They think abortion is like committing murder as it is killing the human fetus. Others feel that the parents should have the right to choose and it is not murder until the baby is born. People who think it is bad say that the fetus is something alive, a human being who is partly formed and to do abortion is to kill it and commit murder. The people who think it is ok say that it is not murder until and unless the child is born. I think that abortion has to be seen about which stage the fetus is in. If it is in the very early stage, then it is not murder. But if it has already developed into a larger fetus, it can be considered as murder. There are other times when abortion is also fine. For example if there is a complication in pregnancy and the mother can suffer because of the child, it is ok to do abortion. It is important to understand the various ideas that go behind abortion. The right of an abortion for a mother should be left on her own decision as the mother knows best about her condition. She is going to be the 'host body' for the baby, even though her own, for nine months and according to Thompson, the mother...
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...therefore, that would make abortion murder. The baby that is growing inside of the woman is depending on her, so when she makes the choice to end that baby's life; they are making the choice to murder another person. Someone that believes in the pro-choice theory would say that the decision is up to the woman, but the person with the pro-life theory would say that it is murder no matter what the situation. Most people consider it murder to kill a baby the day after it is born. Then why would it not be murder to kill it before it is born? There are many abortions performed each year in the United States. Seventy-five percent of all abortions in the U.S. are performed on women over twenty years of age, but the lawmakers try to concentrate on the 186,000 teens that have an abortion each year. In 1990, there were nearly 400 abortion bills were that were introduced to forty-one legislatures. So far, as many as twenty states have passed a law that requires a teenager to have parents consent before having an abortion. This may help reduce the number of abortions each year. The people that passed these bills feel that maybe the parents will feel differently about the situation and be able to talk their child out of it. Twenty percent of teens that are sexually active do not use any form of birth control. These are the teens that end up getting pregnant and getting an abortion. If these girls would use some kind of contraceptive it could stop a lot of the abortions performed each year....
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...Should Abortion be legal? Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and about four in ten of these are terminated by abortion. In 1973 Roe V. Wade decision, the supreme Court ruled that women, in consultation with their physician, have a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy. Abortion is a very serious and dangerous thing to decide 50% of women who have had abortions report experiencing emotion and psychological problems lasting for months or years. Only 12% women reported having a physical problem with their health among having an abortion like an infection called hemorrhage and uterine perforation. My personal experience having an abortion is when my mom had one in 2000. She said that she was not ready to raise other child at this moment in her life, because she just moved to North Carolina and was looking for a job. She felt no guilt about what she has done she thought it was the right thing to do at this point in her life. Most people would argue that abortion is not only wrong, but it is murder to an innocent child with no fault of its own. The first reason that abortion should be illegal because it is murder! For example, the fetus is a distinct individual therefore its DNA is completely its own while the baby is in the womb the baby will show definite signs of emotion. I think that when a human egg and a human sperm meet, the resulting individual is simply human. The number of American babies killed...
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...ILLEGALIZE ABORTION By: Abirna Senthilkaruniyan “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself...”― Mother Teresa. In the twenty first century, laws have changed to establish equality to both men and women in developed nations. The act of abortion, ‘is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.’ This act became legal in the United States of America in 1973 after the Supreme Court case of Roe vs. Wade. In North America, it is legal to abort a child twenty weeks after conception. The government will permit a woman to have a late-abortion for the following reasons: “(1) if the woman has a serious disease, (2) the pregnancy could endanger her physical/mental health, (3) the continuation of pregnancy could lead to substantial risk to the newborn, (4) if the pregnancy was the result of rape (5) if the socio-economic status of the mother hampers the progress of a healthy pregnancy, (6) if the contraceptive device irrespective of the method used failed.” However, other than the respectable mediums listed above abortion should be abolished. Due to the law, abortion is now a risk to the economy and its future, it also increases the rates of murder and can negatively impact a woman psychologically. If North American countries want to sustain humanity and to continue being economical contributors, influencers and advisors...
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...Murder in the Womb : Why it Should be Illegal Abortion is a topic that gets a lot of attention but it often misinformed about. What is abortion in definition form? What are the ways abortions are performed? How do we as a country, try to limit them?What are the ethics of abortion? 2015 Dakoda Breanna Schoolman Grace College 6/17/2015 Murder in the Womb : Why it Should be Illegal Abortion is a topic that gets a lot of attention but it often misinformed about. What is abortion in definition form? What are the ways abortions are performed? How do we as a country, try to limit them?What are the ethics of abortion? 2015 Dakoda Breanna Schoolman Grace College 6/17/2015 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Body 1 What is an abortion? 1 History of Abortion Laws 2 Roe vs Wade 3 How Harmful Abortion is to the Mother 4 Is Abortion Murder? 5 Is Abortion Morally wrong? 6 Is Abortion the Best Option? 7 Development of Babies 8 Ways to Avoid Pregnancy 8 Closing 9 Dakoda Breanna Schoolman Professor Richard Bragg English 1100 20 November 2014 Murder in the Womb: Why it Should be Illegal Introduction Imagine you have a teenage daughter. You have coached and explained to her the consequences and how you should wait to have sex till after you are married. One day she comes to you crying and upset. She tells you that she broke your rule of no sex before marriage and says that she is pregnant. What would you want her to do? Would you tell her...
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...Abortion speech INTRODUCTION (Picture of Oprah Winfrey) Look at this picture. Oprah Winfrey has dedicated her life to inspire, educate and ultimately improve the lives of others all around the world. Now imagine if her mother had aborted her; all those lives she touched would be waiting on a miracle. (Picture of Benjamin Franklin) Look at this picture. Benjamin Franklin, the father of electricity, discovered its existence while conducting an experiment with a kite. Now imagine if his mother had aborted him; we would all be in darkness. DEFINITION OF ABORTION: what is abortion? An abortion, according to the Webster Merriam online dictionary, is the termination of a pregnancy after or accompanied by, resulting in the death of the embryo or fetus. In short, an abortion is murder. After all, it is the act of taking the life of an unborn child. (Picture of an aborted baby) Look at this picture. Isn’t this murder? DEFINITION OF MURDER: what is murder? Some say abortion is murder. But what really is murder? According to the Webster Merriam online dictionary, murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of a one human being by another. But is a fetus a human being. According to US legal definitions, a human being is biologically classified hominids of the specie Homo sapiens, which are primate species of mammal with a highly developed brain. Nearly all abortions occur during the first trimester of the pregnancy-a period during which the brain of the fetus hasn’t even begun to develop...
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...What is wrong with abortion. Abortion is an on-going phenomenon that has been shaping the world for many generations, breaking up families, disappointing religions, and has psychological distress; basically, it's the "removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order end a pregnancy” (Abortion). Abortion is tragic because it's a form of murder, it goes against religious teachings, and it avoids responsibility. In the Hills like White Elephants, the theme was about abortion, we examined how two people were affected by phenomenon or subject. The man and woman were set on getting an abortion, but since the man kept on pestering the women about the subject, she started getting mixed feelings about if she should get an abortion or keep the...
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...Abortion Abortion is wrong and it should not be done. 1.3 million Women have an abortion a year and 1 million women have psychological disorders right after having an abortion. Having an abortion kills the life of an innocent child that has done nothing to be murdered. There are three reasons why I believe that having an abortion shouldn’t be done. Abortion causes stress and psychological pain, abortion is murder and abortion can relate to medical problems later in a woman’s life. Abortion causes stress and psychological pain in many women. Many women regret having the abortion and it causes them to stress completely out to where they lose their jobs and friends. Women develop anxiety disorders and many other disorders after getting an abortion. The pain and guilt of having the abortion done kills them inside and there not able to function normally anymore. Abortion is murder. When having an abortion the unborn fetus is being killed. There is a life that is there and it’s being destroyed. Abortion is like killing someone with a knife because basically that’s what you’re doing to the unborn child. When a woman haves an abortion there tearing an unborn child into pieces that is alive and breathing. Murder is said not to be allowed, but an abortion is murder. Many women have medical problems later in their lives because of the abortion. After having an abortion many women suffer from minor infections, abnormal pain and intestinal disturbances. These are only a few complications...
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...Abortion: The Wrong Choice Tammy Edwards COM/172 September 15, 2010 Sunny Rowland Abortion: The Wrong Choice Nearly half of all pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion (Guttmacher Institute, Incidence of Abortion, May 2010). Abortion should be made illegal, because a fetus is a baby, no person has a right to take another's life, and an unborn baby cannot make the decision to live or die. A Fetus is a Baby While some view abortion as something people should be able to choose, others say abortion is a great evil, which is destroying the moral fabric of society Cline (2010). Many of the arguments turn on the status of the fetus: Is a fetus a person? A fetus is indeed a baby. From the moment of conception, a fetus is alive and growing inside the mother’s womb. For this reason, the fetus is a baby and considered a living, breathing being. If this were not so, then why is there a law in the state of California that if a person murders a pregnant female, that person is then charged with two counts of murder instead of just one Simon (2004)? This is true no matter how far along the mother is, one day or nine months. Therefore, this makes the fetus a real person. No Person Has a Right to Take a Life No person has the right to take another person’s life. Many skeptics say that the Bible does not say anything specifically about abortion. That there are no references to women seeking to end pregnancies, for...
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