Abortions have been a very popular topic of discussion over the past few years. There are many different viewpoints and arguments on this topic. 1,003,487 abortions have been performed thus far into the year. Out of every four women, at least one of the women will have one abortion by the age of forty-five (Guttmacher Institute). Statistics like these need to be put to an end. These “statistics” are living, these “statistics” are being murdered, and these “statistics” are having the chance of life ripped away from them. Abortions are cruel and wrong, and they need to be illegal.
I stand strongly against abortion and I don’t believe anything can justify it. Several take advantage of the court case Roe v. Wade to prove that abortion is technically constitutional, without looking further into the current case situation. Norma Leah McCorvey Nelson, better known as Jane Roe, regrets having involvement in the case Roe v. Wade. She has been reported saying that she regrets playing a role in the …show more content…
Women have two and a half weeks to avoid conceiving a child after intercourse, so there is plenty of time before having to abort a living thing. There are many who believe that babies are only “fetuses” and that they are never real human beings. Most people are ignorant to the fact that the baby begins to truly develop rapidly beginning in week five. That is when the baby’s structure forms and the body starts to develop nerve cells along with the brain, spinal cord, and heart. Abortions can be legally performed up to twenty-four weeks. By twenty-one weeks the child has become strong enough to survive in a hospital, it can hear, swallow, and has become quite active (MedlinePlus). The most common reasons for getting abortions were women not being ready enough, not financially prepared, or they just don’t want the child. If you are not ready to take on the responsibility of having a child, you do not need to be sexually