“I’ve realized that mostly everybody that is for abortion is already born” –Ronald Reagan. For many years there has been different people taking different walks of life that has different opinions of abortion. For some people abortion is never wrong, for others abortion is O.K, and for the limited few- abortions is never right. Many women in the world have abortions due to several reasons: financial needs, social needs, family/relationship problems, and religious values. Whatever the situation is there should be no involvement with having an abortion. Abortion is murder and is wrong not only because it goes against what God said, but also because most women are rushed into making decisions an unsure about their decision that they will regret it later in life. In the speech I will like to persuade you why abortion is not the right thing to do when it comes to life and death of an unborn child.
Women in the US do not realize the negative effects that killing the fetus can cause. Scientists identify the first moment of human life when the sperm and the egg unites (Shettles). No women or man should have the right to choose if a baby should live or not. The fetus is meaningful and has potential life. After conception, no event occurs in the development of the fetus that indicates a change in the fetus from not being human to becoming one (Foster 33). According to David C. Reardon, 252 women took a survey for abortions. The average age was 21 years old and out of the 252 people 45% of the women said that they were not satisfied with the choice they made at the time. Mostly 84% thought that their decision was not well thought out. Though the fetus is living 70% thought the fetus was not living before the abortion. After the abortion 90% thought it was living. Almost everyone who went through with the abortion had negative feelings towards it. These results show the regret accompanied with abortion. Most women that went on in abortion felt they
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