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Abortion Is Murder
Abortion is Vicious
Michelle Thomason
Everest University
Composition I
ENC 1101-93
Christina Duffman
June 15, 2013

Abortion is Vicious

The question that is being asked and is on most people’s minds: “Is abortion murder?” Indeed, abortion is murder because it’s premeditated killing of someone who cannot, or is not given the opportunity, to defend themselves. The fetus has no defenses. In the case of Roe v. Wade (1973). Courts ruled unconstitutional a state law that banned abortions except to save the life of the mother. The Supreme Court ruled that the states were prohibited from making abortion illegal or controlling any aspect of abortion carried out during the first trimester of pregnancy, could only decrees abortion regulations sensibly related to maternal health in the second and third trimesters, and could decrees abortion laws protecting the life of the fetus only in the third trimester (Roe v. Wade, 1973). Studies have shown that pregnant mother’s freedom of choice over her body shouldn’t prevent her baby from having a chance at life. The fetus is a growing organism. Abortion should be banned within the United States because it is committing legal murder, it is creating immorality within our society, and choosing to place the child into adoptive care is a much better option for everyone involved.

There are several reasons why abortion is murder. One being that the fetus is a living human being, the fetus is a one of a kind person at the moment of conception. This little fertilized egg is a new life. If an abortion takes place, than this will destroy the fetus, its murder, and therefore, wrong. In the Bible, it states that killing harmless unborn children would not be legal because they realized that, although the word abortion doesn 't appear in the Bible, the elder Hebrews and Israelites were clever enough to know that abortion is murder. Therefore it’s covered under the sixth commandment Barnes, (2009).
Abortion can never be morally


References: Barnes, S. (2009). The Long Term Effects of Abortion on Women. Retrieved February 10, 2009, from http://the-gospel.org/stdy_fmly/abortion_effects.php Miller, M. M. (1987, May). Images of Abortion. In M. Miller, Images of Abortion. Symposium conducted at the Michigan Auenue Medical Center, 30 South Michigan Auenue, Chicago, IL. Retrieved from http://www.imagesofabortion.com/exposed/pages/galleriesAll/MichAveMedCntr.aspx McBride, A. (2006). Roe v. Wade (1973). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_roe.html NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina. (2008). Retrieved from http://www.prochoicenc.org/what-is-choice/abortion/NARAL , 2008, para. 2 White, H. (2012). Abortion ‘is gravely immoral in all circumstances’: Ireland’s Catholic bishops Retrieved from: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abortion-is-gravely-immoral-in-all- circumstances irelands-catholic-bishops/
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