What Is Abortion: Humanity Or Personhood?
Abortion, definitely not the first time this word regarding personhood versus humanity has been played with human life. It is a touchy subject most average people do not want to get into, as due to its highly sensitive topics and vast opinions on the matter. During the time of slave trade, blacks were acknowledged as human beings, but not “persons”. To a certain perspective, it would suggest that treating living human beings with such vile care, such as kidnapping them from their homes, beating and murdering them, and selling them off to people, is a much better idea than letting a newborn infant live his or her potential life. Also, Hitler acknowledged that Jews were human beings. They were not of “personhood” though. Abortion is not only
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unethical and immoral, but the health risks that accompany it, as long as some short to long term psychological effects seem to outweigh the “benefit” of having an abortion. To first have an understanding on abortion, the simple definition of an abortion must be determined. An abortion is when a fetus is removed from the mother before it is born, with the sole intent on killing that fetus. The term “personhood,” can loosely be described as: “The quality or condition of being an individual person.” The term “human being,” can be described as “a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance.”( These definitions are according to the Oxford online dictionary. Those were used from the Oxford Dictionary because those are the universal core definitions of what those two most common types that a fetus is associated with, the question is, what are they? It has been scientifically proven, unborn human beings are living. From the start of fertilization, a new human life is in existence. A mom has forty-six chromosomes and so does a dad. A mom’s fertile egg and dad’s reproductive cell each have twenty-three chromosomes. Twenty-three plus twenty-three equals forty-six. That makes a unique human. “Ending this life is not ending “potential” life, it’s ending a life. People tend to veer more towards the actual fetus when they call it a human life, but, since the moment those forty-six pairs merge, those cells then become a human being. At four weeks those forty-six chromosomes have developed an official embryo. An embryo is an unborn offspring in the process of development. So right there should be a sign of that fetus is now the parents offspring. At from five to seven weeks the baby will develop: a circulatory systems, a tiny heart with a tiny heartbeat, the nose mouth and ears start to take shape, the intestines and brains start to develop, and little hands and little feet emerge. At eight weeks the child will start to move inside the mother, although she will not feel anything. From ten to thirteen weeks, the baby's organs, skin, fingerprints, veins, and body state have set in. Each human being has a set of individual fingerprints, and at thirteen weeks, this fetus has its own individual markings. Sadly, according to Abort73.com, “89-92% of all abortions happen during the first trimester, prior to the thirteenth week of gestation (AGI/CDC). In 2012, 7.2% of all abortions occurred between fourteen and twenty weeks' gestation; 1.3% occurred ≥twenty-one weeks' gestation (CDC).” Which means that they are eliminating its organs, fingerprints, veins, and body state, as well as everything listed above. So the next question is: what are the main causes of abortions? In 2012, unmarried women accounted for 85.3% of all abortions, this is according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Women living with a partner to whom they are not married account for 25% of abortions but only about 10% of women in the population, according to the National Abortion Federation.
(NAF) In 2012, women who had not aborted in the past accounted for 55.7% of all abortions; women with one or two prior abortions accounted for 35.6%, and women with three or more prior abortions accounted for 8.6% (CDC).Among women who obtained abortions in 2012, 40.3% had no prior live births; 45.8% had one or two prior live births, and 14.0% had three or more prior live births (CDC).Women between the ages of twenty to twenty-four obtained 32.8% of all abortions in 2012; women between twenty-five to twenty-nine obtained 25.4% The abortion rate of non-metropolitan women is about half that of women who live in metropolitan counties (NAF).The abortion rate of women with Medicaid coverage is three times as high as that of other women (NAF) So what do all those statistics show? Based on the facts listed above, unmarried women have a higher tendency to have an abortion, due to either partner complications, disruption of schooling or education, financial instability, or they just did not want the child. Also, a lot of young women ages twenty to twenty-four have a higher tendency to have abortions than those older than
them. A lot of people do not call the victims of abortion babies. People call the babies fetuses, not living, not a person. There are four main “reasons” why most do not consider little humans “persons”. The four reasons; size, level of development, environment, degree of dependency. None of those are a clear example to kill a baby. There are certain circumstances that people think it is still alright to fix it with abortion. It compounds tragedy. For instance the circumstances that caused a pregnancy could be tragic. Could be rape, a birth defect, or the mother’s health could be at risk. One tragedy can not be fixed by another tragedy. Killing a child would not fix the rape, heal the baby, or make the mom better.
unethical and immoral, but the health risks that accompany it, as long as some short to long term psychological effects seem to outweigh the “benefit” of having an abortion. To first have an understanding on abortion, the simple definition of an abortion must be determined. An abortion is when a fetus is removed from the mother before it is born, with the sole intent on killing that fetus. The term “personhood,” can loosely be described as: “The quality or condition of being an individual person.” The term “human being,” can be described as “a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance.”( These definitions are according to the Oxford online dictionary. Those were used from the Oxford Dictionary because those are the universal core definitions of what those two most common types that a fetus is associated with, the question is, what are they? It has been scientifically proven, unborn human beings are living. From the start of fertilization, a new human life is in existence. A mom has forty-six chromosomes and so does a dad. A mom’s fertile egg and dad’s reproductive cell each have twenty-three chromosomes. Twenty-three plus twenty-three equals forty-six. That makes a unique human. “Ending this life is not ending “potential” life, it’s ending a life. People tend to veer more towards the actual fetus when they call it a human life, but, since the moment those forty-six pairs merge, those cells then become a human being. At four weeks those forty-six chromosomes have developed an official embryo. An embryo is an unborn offspring in the process of development. So right there should be a sign of that fetus is now the parents offspring. At from five to seven weeks the baby will develop: a circulatory systems, a tiny heart with a tiny heartbeat, the nose mouth and ears start to take shape, the intestines and brains start to develop, and little hands and little feet emerge. At eight weeks the child will start to move inside the mother, although she will not feel anything. From ten to thirteen weeks, the baby's organs, skin, fingerprints, veins, and body state have set in. Each human being has a set of individual fingerprints, and at thirteen weeks, this fetus has its own individual markings. Sadly, according to Abort73.com, “89-92% of all abortions happen during the first trimester, prior to the thirteenth week of gestation (AGI/CDC). In 2012, 7.2% of all abortions occurred between fourteen and twenty weeks' gestation; 1.3% occurred ≥twenty-one weeks' gestation (CDC).” Which means that they are eliminating its organs, fingerprints, veins, and body state, as well as everything listed above. So the next question is: what are the main causes of abortions? In 2012, unmarried women accounted for 85.3% of all abortions, this is according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Women living with a partner to whom they are not married account for 25% of abortions but only about 10% of women in the population, according to the National Abortion Federation.
(NAF) In 2012, women who had not aborted in the past accounted for 55.7% of all abortions; women with one or two prior abortions accounted for 35.6%, and women with three or more prior abortions accounted for 8.6% (CDC).Among women who obtained abortions in 2012, 40.3% had no prior live births; 45.8% had one or two prior live births, and 14.0% had three or more prior live births (CDC).Women between the ages of twenty to twenty-four obtained 32.8% of all abortions in 2012; women between twenty-five to twenty-nine obtained 25.4% The abortion rate of non-metropolitan women is about half that of women who live in metropolitan counties (NAF).The abortion rate of women with Medicaid coverage is three times as high as that of other women (NAF) So what do all those statistics show? Based on the facts listed above, unmarried women have a higher tendency to have an abortion, due to either partner complications, disruption of schooling or education, financial instability, or they just did not want the child. Also, a lot of young women ages twenty to twenty-four have a higher tendency to have abortions than those older than
them. A lot of people do not call the victims of abortion babies. People call the babies fetuses, not living, not a person. There are four main “reasons” why most do not consider little humans “persons”. The four reasons; size, level of development, environment, degree of dependency. None of those are a clear example to kill a baby. There are certain circumstances that people think it is still alright to fix it with abortion. It compounds tragedy. For instance the circumstances that caused a pregnancy could be tragic. Could be rape, a birth defect, or the mother’s health could be at risk. One tragedy can not be fixed by another tragedy. Killing a child would not fix the rape, heal the baby, or make the mom better.