It is not a surprising fact to see how many women today are getting pregnant at a very young age. According to the figures, 6.4 billion women get pregnant each year in the world. The problem is that almost 60% of them are unwanted, and therefore, expectant mothers choose to interrupt their pregnancy prematurely. For this reason, the whole issue of abortion has become a controversial and widely discussed subject throughout the world. Thus, it has led to different points of views about if it is a good or bad thing to do. Naturally, the most widely accepted belief is that this illegal act corresponds to the most terrible crime against humanity since there are several facts that support this vision.
First of all, one of the reasons why abortion is considered a crime is because it is an act of murder as expectant mothers don’t permit their child to live. Moreover, it is believed that interrupting pregnancy at a very premature stage it is not considered a homicide. However, scientists have demonstrated that birth from the first moment an ovule is fertilized, a human life has begun. In other words, from the time a child is conceived, the baby starts his/her development rapidly, and just within a few weeks, the fetus already forms the features of a human body. For instance, by the ninth week of pregnancy, the baby already starts moving inside the womb; by the twenty- first day, he/her heart starts beating; and by the sixty-fourth day, the eyes are forming, and so on. All this characteristics make the fetus to be considered as a human being despite the fact the baby hasn’t born yet. So, by doing this terrible act, not only demonstrates the wickedness of a person, but also the insensitivity of taking away the life of an innocent child without any remorse.
On the other hand, abortion is considered a crime as it does not respect The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To point up this concept, these rights are inherent rights and