Should We Legalize Abortion?

What is the significance of five consecutive “zero’s” following the number fifteen? One and a half million lives of children would be saved per year in the United States if abortion were to be delegalized (Alcorn). Abortion has been a long lasting issue in the United States, specifically since the famous decision of Roe v. Wade in 1973. There are various problems, not just moral issues with legalizing abortion. Legalizing abortion denies the right of the child to have the choice to live, is morally and scientifically misguided, and does not acknowledge when an embryo is considered “life;” therefore abortion should be made illegal in all circumstances in the United States. There are many common pro-choice arguments. One argument is that abortion
Richard Stith is an adamant advocate of the pro-choice side of the abortion debate. In his “Why Pro-Life Arguments Sound Absurd,” Stith makes a fool of himself by making a pro-life argument under the claim of pro-choice. He states, “Suppose we're back in the pre-digital days and you've just taken a fabulous photo, one you know you will prize, with your Polaroid camera. (Say it's a picture of a jaguar that has now darted back into the jungle, so that the photo is unrepeatable.) You are just starting to let the photo hang out to develop when 1 grab it and rip its cover off, thus destroying it. What would you think if I responded to your dismay with the assertion "Hey man, it was still in the brown-smudge stage. Why should you care about brown smudges?" I submit that you would find my defense utterly absurd. Just so for pro-lifers, who find dignity in every human individual: To say that killing such a prized being doesn't count if he or she is still developing in the womb strikes them as outrageously absurd” (2). Pro-lifers value human life at every stage and would say that killing such a prized being does count, even in the developing stages, therefore Stith ill-advisedly creates a pro-life argument under the claim of pro-choice and in turn creates a negative reputation for various “pro-choicers” that needs to be recognized. Similarly but more importantly, a false assumption in the
As mentioned before, part of the three percent of reasons for abortions is due to rape, incest, deformity or threat to the mother's life. Eliza Gray mentions in her article “How A New Study On Premature Babies Could Influence The Abortion Debate” that in the cases of abortion due to deformity in the child, “a new study showing that a tiny percentage of extremely premature babies born at 22 weeks can survive with extensive medical intervention” (Gray). Gray even discusses, “The Supreme Court has held that states can restrict abortions if the fetus is viable—able to survive outside the womb—even if the mother’s health is not threatened by the pregnancy” (Gray). This new research would help increase the amount of fetuses that are deemed “viable” by states and would therefore restrict many abortions saving a multitude of human