Eng 102 Abortion Should Be Illegal
Abortion is not an illegal process in the United States as of today, but abortion is murder and murder is illegal, therefore; abortion should be illegal. The definition for abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. I find this definition very simple for such a complex issue, such as, life and death. This definition fails to mention the millions of lives that have been lost in utero due to this procedure. Some consider abortion to be murder since the being inside the mother is living. The definition of something living includes the ability to grow, which is exactly what is going on inside a woman who is pregnant. An abortion ceases the growing process, therefore ending the future life of a human being.
Abortion should be illegal because the very act of abortion was prohibited via the Hippocratic Oath until pro choicers became inclined to have the Oath our forefathers took before they could tend to patients decades ago, changed to remove the paragraph prohibiting abortion. People that oppose abortion feel abortion should be an illegal procedure except in risk of extreme harm or death to the mother. Doctors should not be allowed to perform a procedure that was once prohibited via the classic version of the Hippocratic Oath every doctor takes upon becoming a doctor. It seems even decades ago abortion was saw to be a heinous act against human kind. The classic version of the Hippocratic Oath actually has the phrase, “I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy,” and the original Hippocratic Oath states, “I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.” Any mention of not performing an abortion has been taken out of the Hippocratic Oath, but not from the minds of people who expect doctors to save lives. ("Evolution of Medical Ethics”)
Abortion should be illegal because 30 of the 50 states in the US had