How would you feel if someone took away your ability to live and have a future? You wouldn’t have the opportunity to crawl, take your first step, have your first kiss, or experience those butterflies in your stomach at the sight of first love. Millions of special moments, a life, shredded to pieces.
This is essentially what abortion does. Abortion is not the answer in the case of an unplanned pregnancy and needs to be stopped! First of all, abortion is a type of unnecessary murder that occurs in inhumane ways and cannot be tolerated. Moreover, there are alternatives to abortion and many families who are looking to adopt. Lastly, the side effects of abortion can cause life threatening health risks to the mother.
Excuses will always be made, but the bottom line is that abortion is not acceptable and should be stopped. No upstanding and sane person would ever sanction mass murder; and yet, by supporting abortion that is just what is happening. Every day 3,238 babies are killed in brutal ways inside the womb through processes such as dilation and curettage, where a loop shaped knife is used to cut the baby into pieces, then its body parts are checked in case any parts remain in the mother (“Abortion”). Even worse, such statistics do not include the abortions that take place due to contraceptives and the “morning after pills”. However, the most horrific aspect of this aside form sickening medical procedures and toxic medicine is the culprits.
Parents, the two most important people who are supposed to protect their children, have deserted them and left them vulnerable, sentenced to death. There will always be counter arguments but all are refutable. One may ask: what about rape victims, teenage pregnancy and threats to the mother’s life? They are not ready to be mothers, its not healthy, the excuses go on. They should be able to abort, right? The answer is no! Here is why: “92% of abortions in America are purely elective– done on healthy women to end the lives of healthy children”.
Less than 1% of abortions are done by victims of rape and 7% of abortions occur because there is a threat to the mother’s life (Schwarzwalder). Therefore, abortion has gone to what some people believed to be a necessary evil to a commodity: Abortion has become mass murder of convenience. When an unplanned pregnancy occurs people, especially teens, will take the easy way out. They don’t want to give up their extravagant ways of life and take responsibility for their actions.
Selfishness infests their brains and all they can think of is themselves: how their lives will be ruined, they can’t possibly support the child, their education will be put on hold. However, what people don’t realize is everything that is material can be salvaged: they can continue their education, their family will be there to support them, the government can provide them with money. On the other hand, once a life is taken, there is no turning back. There is no restart button. It’s the end. Yet, it doesn’t have to be this way.
If for whatever reason a mother cannot keep her child, there are many couples who yearn for opportunity to be parents, and who will be able to give a loving and stable environment to a new life. It is understandable to be overwhelmed by an unplanned pregnancy, but abortion should not be considered when alternatives like adoption exist. First of all, many people are under the misconception that adoption severs all ties of parents with their babies; however, birth parents have different adoption plans to choose from, shaped around their needs. For example, there is open adoption, where birth parents have a chance to pick the parents for their baby and have access as well as recognition as the birth parent to.
Nonetheless, if keeping in contact with their child is not what the adoptive parents want, there is the option of confidential adoption, in which there would be no contact with either the adoptive family or the child (“Consider Adoption”). Lastly, it doesn’t make anyone less of a person to admit that they cannot deal with unplanned situations, in this case pregnancy, but is it how people react to the situation that makes the difference. Instead of succumbing to the selfish voice in our heads that insist that a baby’s life will not be worth it without birth parents, people must be selfless and brave by giving the baby up. “In the USA, there are approximately two million infertile couples waiting to adopt, many times regardless of the child’s medical problems such as Down Syndrome, Spina Bifida, HIV infection or terminally ill,” (Brown).
That is two million couples out there that will cherish, raise and love a baby without thought to race, disease or money. Two million couples are out there, who will be with biological parents every step of the way, and from which biological parent can chose who will be most appropriate for their baby. By saying no to abortion, people are giving two million couples hope. In conclusion, people should embrace adoption as an alternative to abortion, for it saves innocent lives but also the lives of the mother. Abortion eradicates babies but it can also slowly eradicate the health of the mother both physically and mentally. To illustrate, surgical, medical and chemical abortion pose serious health risks to body.
Post-abortion patients are at risk of complications in future pregnancies which may include excessive bleeding, premature delivery, cervical damage, and sterility. Moreover, “Recent studies have pointed out that there is what some might term a ‘dramatic relationship’ between the rate of abortion and the rising incidence of breast cancer among women who have aborted,” (“Abortion”). The connection is as simple as altering the natural flow of the body. Birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy increase the chances of breast cancer by exposing the body to high amounts of estrogen other than that which the body already has. Estrogen stimulates mitosis and elevated amounts of estrogen can cause errors in mitosis resulting in cancer (Lanfranchi). On the other hand, abortion is also a hazard to a woman’s emotional health.
To illustrate, acute grief reaction and emotional disturbances are common with abortion patients. While people realize it or not, abortion is a traumatic experience. Studies have shown that mothers who abort are at risk for suicidal thoughts, drug or alcohol abuse, and post traumatic stress disorder. (“Abortion Risks: A List of Major Psychological Complications Related to Abortion”). 50% of patients have emotional disturbances such as depression, insomnia, anxiety, nervousness, and grief (“Abortion”). In conclusion, no matter from which angle it is looked upon, abortion is not the answer and should be stopped.
Firstly, it is mass murder done out of convenience and selfishness to maintain the parents lifestyle. Moreover, it is not necessary to dispose of a life when there are millions of people wanting to adopt and willing to be parents. Last, abortion is a health hazard that threatens the emotional and physical health stability of women. Abortion is a social issue that needs to be brought to awareness and stopped but the world needs your help.
The world needs heroes. Anyone can be a hero, a hero requires no mask or cape, but they do require a voice. A voice that can save lives. Works Cited”Abortion. ” American Life League.
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