“Pro-life is when a person believes that the government has an obligation to preserve all human life, regardless of intent, viability, or quality-of-life concerns (Head)”. This includes abortions, euthanasia, and the death penalty. Most pro-life beliefs are rooted from those beliefs in the Roman Catholic Church. That every life is precious and we as humans do not have the authority to decide if someone should live or not, including ourselves. The Church has tried to illegalize the abortion procedure. They state that although the fetus is unborn it is still a living human being that has a heart rate, fingers, and toes. Those who supports pro-life believe that it is wrong for a woman to kill her child and continue to live life however she pleases. They believe that if abortion is illegal then it will force others to be more responsible. “On the other hand, the pro-life vs. pro-choice debate tends to overlook the fact that the vast majority of women who have abortions …show more content…
In a Pilipino documentary it shown that many woman have died trying to give self-abortions with harmful homemade concoctions. After taking these concoctions these woman many times will bleed to death. This is because in the Philippines abortions are not only illegal but hospitals do not offer help to woman who have tried to abort their baby. They would either kick the woman out the hospital or make her wait so long that she finally decides to leave. It is sad because many of these women are not educated on ways to protect themselves and use