Abortion Is Not Murder in the Right Circumstances

Abortion Is Not Murder under the Right Circumstances

She was only twelve, only for a walk on the street right by her house when he got to her. The experience was terrifying and all she wanted to do was forget about it, forget about him on top of her, making her do things that should only be done with someone she loves. The rape is finally over and he lets her go after making her promise not to tell. A few weeks after the rape she still hadn't told, but started feeling woozy and nauseous in the morning; she went and consulted in her mother. After waiting out what she believes was a stomach flue for another few weeks she saw that her belly started to grow. She finally told her mother what had happen and the little twelve year old girl was 4 weeks pregnant. A heated discussion among students, parents and government officials is whether abortion should be legal. I recently read an article about a twelve year old girl who had been raped and had her child because no one gave her the option of abortion, her family felt that she would embarrass the family because it was morally wrong. Would it have been wrong for this child to theoretically murder her newborn? Murder is the act of taking another's life with malicious thoughts; it is also taking the life of another human being without medical supervision and by brutal ways. I believe that abortion is not murder if none of those three apply, in the right circumstance, abortion is not murder.

Nuss-2
Abortion is the act of terminating a pregnancy. If a woman is raped and is impregnated by the rapist, I feel that she has the right to abort her baby. If that same woman is then outcast by society for having that abortion, that is morally wrong. Women are not always meant to have children, but they do. If the states made it easier to go through with abortion we would not have as many kids in foster care or abandoned. Another case would be that of a teenager making the wrong decisions. Children having children is not a good asset to our society. If a sixteen year old girl gets impregnated by her boyfriend who then leaves her, it is not wrong for this young girl to abort her newborn. A third case would be that of a child that is bound to have many birth defects. If doctors can see that a child is terminally ill, with many birth defects so that neither the child nor the family will have a normal life again, it should be the parent's choice to abort or not abort. Murder has malignant cause behind it, while women affected by abortion usually have regret, sadness and hopelessness. There are other instances in which abortion should not be permitted and it definitely would be murder in my eyes. For instance if a women is having an affair and becomes pregnant, she has no reasonable basis for aborting that child other than her husband. Also, at times women use abortion as a birth control which is morally wrong and should not be allowed. There can be a scanning process on why the abortion is taking place. Why is it not that the doctor performing the actual abortion is considered a murderer but the woman that has to make the decision is stereotyped as a terrible human being.

Nuss-3
What is murder? Murder is the unlawful killing of one human being by another human being with malice intent. Abortion is in most cases with no bad intentions; the person that chooses to have the abortion does so with good intentions for herself or the child. For a rape victim, a young girl, or a mother in fear of having a disabled child all the intensions for either herself or the child are only good. In some cases yes, it would be considered murder, if for one the fetus is older than the set date of 6 weeks, if the woman baby is the cause of an affair or if she just does not want another child. Also if a woman uses this method as a birth control and maybe even performs the abortion on herself instead of seeing a physician it could, in my opinion also fall under the category of murder.
When a woman uses the right methods for her abortion, a doctor, a well sanitary place and the right reasons, it is not murder. The rape victim, sixteen year old and the woman afraid of having a disabled child don't have spiteful thoughts towards their unborn children; if they chose to go with abortion they have the medical treatment and do not use brutality. All those are reasons why the cases listed above are not murder. Abortion in many cases is not murder, it should also not be considered morally wrong and women should not be frowned upon for it by society. Whichever opinion a person has, abortion is going to happen either way, so why make it harder for someone who really needs it. If someone disagrees with abortion, they should also disagree with the death penalty, voluntary euthanasia, and the decision whether or not to take someone off life support or not.