Abortion

Abortion: Are you a murderer? Since the legalization of abortion in 1973, over 54 million unborn children have been killed. That's 1 baby every 20 seconds. Even if scientists could determine when consciousness begins, wouldn’t it still be wrong to distinguish a life? Some people believe that terminating a child's life before birth is alright because the child has not reached consciousness; that consciousness is a state that occurs after birth. However a child begins to dream within the womb after the brain is fully developed at forty weeks (Nilsson). Abortion should be illegal because scientific studies show how early a baby becomes conscious in the womb, it causes many problems for the mothers, and it is very dangerous. For those pro abortionists who do not believe that a child is a person until he or she is several months old, what about the premature babies? Anyone who has held a little baby that weighs less than 2 pounds knows that the child is indeed a little person: one who is struggling to live. The heartbeat of the unborn child begins 21 days after conception and a child born as early as 20 weeks after conception has a good chance of survival (Nilsson). My sister is a mother of two children, and as I attended every doctor’s appointment with her, I experienced the stages of growth in the womb. At five weeks, we could see and hear the baby’s heartbeat on the ultrasound. At only eight weeks, the baby may only be the size of a bean, but it is constantly moving, and its fingers are beginning to form and it can properly move all of the joints in the arms and legs. The unborn baby's heart starts beating at 20 days and the brain gives off brainwaves at 40 days. If these factors are used by the law to determine death, why can't they be used to determine life?
There are physical and psychological problems that can afflict women who have had abortions. Some of the more important physical problems associated with the procedure are bleeding, infections, constant