Abortion : Another Name for Murder

Abortion : Another Name for Murder Every day, an overwhelming amount of human beings’ lives are terminated. The culprit: unwanted pregnancies. So what is one to do when they discover that they’re pregnant? They have some alternatives: (1) have the child and raise it (2) have the child, then give it up for adoption (3) get an abortion. Sadly, many women choose alternative three. A mother kills her baby because it is unwanted, yet she is not charged with murder. Is this right? It is wrong to kill something that has an undoubtedly possible future. This has happened more than twenty-million times in the past twenty years. The problem is that they have been killed legally because of abortion. Many people approve of the termination of a fetus because they consider that its not an individual human until birth. Abortion is wrong and it shouldn't be legal. A common argument is that abortion isn’t murder because the baby isn’t alive, but on the contrary, life begins at conception. After eighteen days, the heart is formed. After twenty, the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system are developing. A mere four days later, the heart starts beating. If a doctor killed a baby one minute after it were born, they would be charged with murder. But if they were to kill a baby one minute before it were born, and a minute before that and so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider life worthless and the next precious? The fetus has a right to life and a right to the possibilities of it’s future. Therefore abortion, the massacre of this fetus, would be morally wrong. Clearly every human being that has hopes for their future and the futures of their offspring should argue that no fetus should be denied what they are morally granted. They are offered a life full of opportunities, events, happiness, and discoveries. Without demanding that abortion shouldn’t continue, and that it is wrong, ignorantly a doctor could abort a fetus that was meant to be a future President of the United States, or the one individual that would head the findings of a cure for cancer. As you live your life day to day you realize anything is possible. You don’t wake up in the morning knowledgeable of every experience and relationship that you will come into contact with in that day. So with ignorance not being an acceptable excuse, human beings shouldn’t continue to believe that they have the right to chose which fetus shall grow to full term and have a future and which fetus should be injected with a saline solution and burnt beyond recognition and dismissed as never entering the world. People also argue that a woman has the right to control her body and has the right to an abortion, but the fetus is a completely different life. Just because the unborn is dependent on the mother for nine months does not give anyone the right to end it's life. Is abortion murder though? According to the Webster Dictionary, abortion is to terminate a pregnancy because the baby is not capable of living. Murder is to kill another human being. A human being is defined as a member of the species Homo sapiens, which includes embryos, fetuses, adults, and everyone with similar genetic coding. Therefore, if a baby is viable, then it’s murder, not abortion, because abortion is when the baby isn’t capable of living. I hope that I have at least brought you to some understanding that a human fetus is a living individual. It should be remembered that a death occurs every time an abortion is performed--the death of an unborn child. Hopefully in the future, more people will be aware of the cruelty of abortion and the numbers will drop. Instead, try single-parenting or giving him/her up for adoption. There are currently 400,000 couples in America trying to adopt. Keep others aware of this horrible procedure. Spare a life.