Late Term Abortion Persuasive Speech

First and foremost, not all the laws of late-term abortion mimic one another throughout each state. Late-term is considered anything after 140 days. In Indiana, the late-term abortion is anything after twenty-four weeks (“Women’s Med”). Late-term abortion is a two to three day process because the baby is so developed. Day one of a late-term abortion procedure is when the surgeon injects digoxin into the mom's abdomen and straight into the baby's head, heart or torso to cause the baby to go into a fatal cardiac arrest. When the digoxin is injected, the baby's life should end. The surgeon then inserts laminaria sticks into the woman's vaginal area to open up the cervix to deliver the baby. It will take two-three days for the cervix to open up.
Therefore, the woman will be carrying her dead baby for two-three days. After those few days, the woman will have an ultrasound to make sure the baby is dead. If the baby is not dead, the surgeon will have to insert more lethal digoxin. She will then have to do the process over again and wait for her cervix to dilate. If she is unable to make it to the hospital in time, she is advised to deliver the baby in the bathroom toilet and wait for the abortionist to remove the baby and clean up. If she made it to the hospital, she then will deliver her dead baby.
If the baby does not come out whole, then comes the D and E (dilation and evacuation). They then use clamps and forceps to remove the baby piece by piece. Once all the body parts are removed, the abortion is finally complete. Basically what just happened is that a baby was injected in the womb to have a heart attack and then gets delivered two-three days later and if he/she does not come out whole, they break them out piece by piece. (Dr.Anthony Levatino). In early abortions there is medicine and pills to terminate the pregnancy (“Abortion Procedures”). In medical abortions, there are two pills called mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone is the pill women would take first to cause the embryo to detach from the uterine wall. Then, two days later the women will take the misoprostol pill. This pill contracts the uterus to expel the embryo (Lauren Panariello). Morally, the medicine is a more proper way to abort the baby than the late-term way. A women can take the medicine as soon as she is aware she is pregnant. In this case, the women would not wait to have a late-term abortion, she would just take the pill as early as she
could.
In addition, a late-term abortion is utterly brutal and considered homicide.
Before the twenty weeks, the baby’s developments are still minimum. However, after that amount of weeks, the baby is starting to develop main body parts. The aftermath of late-term abortions can lead to high risks of hemorrhage, lacerations, uterine perforations, maternal death, and future pregnancy complications (Dr.Anthony Levatino). All in which are obviously not quite the symptoms that we desire to battle throughout the remaining years in what should be our beloved life. The only exception to late-term abortion should be if the mother’s life is at
risk.
Furthermore, many may argue that abortions are acceptable to do late-term because the parents have found out the baby will have a birth defect. Most of those birth defects consist of down syndrome or some other chromosome disease (Sarah Terzo). They say that they could not handle a kid with downs or could not imagine their life with a non-¨normal¨ child. On the other hand, what if they did have a “normal” child and he/she actually ended up having a disability or defect when born or not as perfect as they wanted their child to be? Are they just going to give their helpless child away and put it up for adoption? Instead of the well known saying, “different, not less” that promotes autism and special needs, doing a late-term abortion for birth defects is like saying, “different, so death.” A local high school basketball star was an overachiever athletically and academically. He had a full ride to University of Vermont. His normal everyday life came to a screeching halt after a heinous car accident. The star suffered severe brain damage, which he is still battling today. From working on new basketball moves to now working on his speech and walking fundamentals, his coaches and parents stuck with him and never lost faith and love with him. All in all, his fellow peers and elders never gave him up in such a way that a mother would give up her child because of a birth defect the baby could not handle.