Against Abortion (English Assignment)

“I've noticed everyone who is for abortion has already been born” (Ronald Reagan). How would you feel if you never got the chance to experience anything? Or never got the chance to live? Even though we go through some tough times, everyone has those moments they wish they could re-live, but what if you didn’t even have a chance to make it to those amazing moments in life all because someone chose to abort her pregnancy and you were the baby in her womb? What if that child was to make a difference in the world? People don’t think about these things when they go into the abortion clinic. Why should abortion be legal if murder is a felony? That is the question that gets people speechless. Although babies are not fully developed when this process is taking place, they are still a living thing with living cells in them and they deserve to have a chance at life. Abortion should be illegal because you are committing murder of a human being, it causes traumatizing damage physically and/or emotionally, and you will look down upon the choice you made later on in your life. “Living- in actual existence or use; extant” (www.dictionary.com). The argument that comes up quite frequently is that the baby in the womb is not a human being and that it isn’t a living thing because it is just a fetus. Well, according to the definition of living the fetus in the mothers’ body is in existence inside of her, so that makes that fetus a living thing. Also, when people feel the baby kick they don’t say “the fetus kicked”, they already know it is a baby and it is living inside of them. All human beings matter and that baby matters whether you planned to get pregnant or if it was an unplanned pregnancy. Eventually, that fetus turns into a beautiful baby. Saying that the fetus isn’t alive is like saying that an adult was never a baby because that person is fully developed now. It is the same thing when you are saying that the fetus isn’t alive just because the baby hasn’t fully developed.