Why Abortion Is Wrong

A young women who just recently married at the age of twenty four, is six months along in her pregnancy. By her eighth month, she has came across complications. Within one week, they continue to get progressively worse. She is eventually rushed to the hospital. There, her symptoms are studied by medical professionals. She soon is told that her complications are so severe that they might cost her her life. She is now faced with a choice. A medical dilemma of saving her life with the use of an abortion, or the moral dilemma of saving her child’s life. What is right? The main reasons why abortions are chosen are the lack of birth control, the lack of funds to raise a child, and unfortunately, rape. As Americans, women are fortunate enough to be
There is a general agreement, however that abortion is acceptable when medical issues justify it. A variety of medical problems may lead to an abortion, including an impending miscarriage, birth defects that can complicate pregnancy or the health of the baby, or the pregnancy posting a serious danger to the mother’s health or life. A miscarriage has a greater physical risk to a woman’s health than an abortion, and can result in medical complications including hemorrhages and infertility which makes it worse than abortion because women who still want to have a child later on will not be able to because they had their potential baby taken away from them (“Medical Reasons for Abortions”). Modern technology allows doctors to detect birth defects during pregnancy. Through blood tests and ultrasounds, a pregnant woman can find out if her fetus is at risk for birth defects (“Medical Reasons for Abortions”). In most cases, doctors can give a woman the definite answer on what the birth defect is on her fetus. Another reason why women get abortions due to birth defects is because they do not want their baby to suffer. In more severe cases, such as Trisomy 13 or Potter’s Syndrome, the baby would die either during or immediately after birth, having no chance of survival. This is important because some of the arguments against abortion are that when a woman undergoes an abortion, they are denying their child a life. When a child has a disease such as Trisomy 13 or Potter’s Syndrome, they will not have a life if the woman goes through all of the pain to carry the baby and attempt to give birth to the child that will die immediately. When a domesticated animal such as a dog, or cat are severely hurt, no one is affected by killing the animal humanely. This is because the animal is not human and it will end the suffering. The same can be said about an underdeveloped fetus. The fetus is not a human yet because it