Abortion

                                                                                 Abortion

 

Abortion, a safe and legal way to end pregnancy.  If you start a paper off  like that there is already so much wrong with it, just in that first sentence. Is abortion really safe? Should it really be legal? My opinion is no, abortion is not safe and no it should not be legal. Many people would probably disagree with me, but do you disagree because that is your honest opinion and you have done all the research you could possibly do on the matter or do you disagree because you listen to the lies the doctors tell you about it being “safe”?

     One in three women have an abortion in their lifetime.  For many women, it is a life changing event with significant physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences. Some women who struggle with past abortions say they wish they were told all the facts before they had one. There are all sorts of circumstances that people point to as justification for their support of abortion, such as rape, unprotected sex, unplanned pregnancy, and many more reasons. Abortion is more dangerous than actual childbirth. Not only does abortion kill the baby but it is also dangerous for the mother.

     There are two types of abortion. An abortion pill and an in clinic abortion. The abortion pill refers to a drug given to end a pregnancy that is less than 49 days. The most commonly used drug is mifepristone (Mifeprex). This drugs works by blocking the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy. Once the hormone is cut off, the uterine lining begins to shed, the cervix softens and there may be some bleeding. Within 24 to 72 hours, a woman will take the second medication, misoprostol. This medication will cause the uterus to contract, and the pregnancy will be expelled, usually within 4 to 6 hours. These drugs are given over the counter, no prescription is needed.

     Then there are in clinic abortions. There are many different procedures all depending on how long you have been pregnant. The first trimester abortion is called “suction abortion” a long thin tube is inserted into the uterus which is then attached to a manual suction device and the embryo (aka the baby. The human living inside you) is suctioned out  like it is nothing. Late in the first trimester the same procedure is done but it is more painful and this time the suction pulls the fetus’ body apart and out of the uterus. The doctor may also use  a loop-shaped tool, called a curette, to scrape any remaining fetal parts out of the uterus. The second trimester procedure is done with the forceps to pull fetal parts out through the cervical opening, as suction alone will not work due to the fetus’ size. The doctor keeps track of what fetal parts have been removed so that none are left inside. Later term methods typically take 2-3 days and are associated with increased risk to the life and health of the mother. Because a live birth is possible, injections are given to cause fetal death. The medications are either injected into the amniotic fluid, the umbilical cord, or directly into the fetus’ heart. The remainder of the procedure is the same as the second trimester.

      Wow. Are you letting that sink in? Would you still like to tell me that this is safe? Or that it should still be legal? That sounds a lot like murder to me. If someone killed someone and disassemble their body, everyone is disgusted and they think those people should be in prison for life because only a gross person would do such a thing but they disassemble unborn baby’s  body in abortion all the time and that is not considered murder. Now that is disgusting.  It is because the doctors lie to you about the baby not actually being a baby until birth. They are wrong, as soon as conception occurs a baby is a baby. The baby’s features, including sex, hair and eye color, are determined. Every new life begins at conception, it is a fact of biology. Personhood is properly defined by membership in the human species not by the stage of development. So guess what, abortion is murder.  

     Since January 1973, over  1 billion people have died from abortion, that’s mothers and babies included.  Abortion is the most commonly performed procedure in the United States. 43% of women under the age of 45 have had an abortion, 55% of those women will have a second abortion, 20% of those women will have a third abortion. By age 45, four in ten women will have an abortion. One in six women in the Evangelical Christian Church have had an abortion. Those percentages are way too high. The majority of abortions are among women between 19 -24 years of age. Why do they abort? Some cannot financially support a child, some just aren’t ready to be parents, sometimes abortion is pushed on these girls by their parents.  No matter what the circumstances are abortion is wrong and it is still murder.

    Did you know abortion effects men also? The Roe decision of 1973 removed the right of a man to have any say in what happens to his baby. Men who have dealt with abortion are 5 times angrier than other men, they have a difficulty concentrating on their work and difficulty keeping a steady job after an abortion. Most men have just as much if not more guilt than women about the abortion. The post-abortive man can become frozen emotionally. The doctors tell the women that it is their decision and that it won’t affect anybody else as long as they are happy with their decision. Well there they are wrong again, not only are most women not happy after abortion but it does effect the baby that was aborted because it is no longer alive and it also effects the child’s father.

     Abortion is an extremely selfish act. Abortion is saying “I don’t care what anybody else wants. I am going to do whatever I want to do, live my own life without having a baby to hold me back, live my dreams, I don’t have money to “waste” on this child, I don’t want people to look down on me.” If you look at all those examples they all scream selfishness. I personally know teenage girls that have gotten pregnant and kept the baby, graduated high school, and are now in college working toward what they want to do, working at their job and also taking wonderful care of their babies. So the baby “holding you back” isn’t true. You have to work harder for what you want but in the end it’s more worth it then just having an abortion. Abortion costs money, so if you get an abortion you have money to take care of a child. People are stupid. If they look down on you for having a baby that’s their problem. Don’t let what people think of you have such a huge impact on whether you have an abortion or not.

    Did you also know that you can make those percentages of abortion go down? Even if you yourself aren’t planning on an abortion, you can help someone who may be thinking about it, stay away from it. Think about it, even if you only told one person that real facts about abortion, you could save a life. That is a big deal. If everyone told just one person everything there is to know, think about how many lives would be saved. Think about how much the percentages would go down. That to me is amazing, even if you aren’t the one having an abortion, you have a huge impact on the matter. Whether they listen and take what you say into consideration is up to them. But the fact that you actually say something is huge. Don’t not say something because you think they won’t listen to you, you might be surprised. Everyone has the power to save a life.