Writing to Argue – Coursework # 1

Think of a beautiful loving child all alone in a dark place, he/she is confused but has it’s mother to protect it from anything, and it doesn’t have a clue that something will kill it, and even if it did it does not have any way to stop this from happening.  Many pregnant females have made the decision to have an abortion. An abortion is to kill your baby before it leaves the womb, in other words; to have an operation to end pregnancy. There are many ways why people make this decision. Abortion is wrong, each time it is done an innocent life is being killed.It is exactly like killing a alive person however the only thing that differs is that the unborn child does not have a say on why they should stay alive, and that is why I am here to speak for them!

Between 1968 and 2003 almost 6 million legal abortions were performed in Britain. This is almost equal to the population of Greater London. Each year about 200,00 abortions take place per annum. (187,000 in England and Wales and 12,000 in Scotland). That amounts to about 550 abortions every day. This is 550 babies being killed per day, and only in the Uk alone. Abortion and murder are both the same thing. If a doctor was too kill a child one minute after it was born it would be murder, however if a doctor killed a child one minute before the child was born it would be the mothers choice as abortion. This should not be acceptable as abortion is taking away the life of an unborn child, which is just as equal as taking a life of a born child.

Life starts at conception when the sperm and the egg fuses, therefore abortion is wrong. Everyone would agree that killing mankind is wrong. Murder is unlawful killing of one human being by another. So why isn’t abortion illegal but murder is if they’re the same thing. Murder prevents the victim from living, whether they are born or in the womb. Abortion is murder, once the egg is fertilized it becomes a human being, therefore it is entitled to have all the rights that human beings are entitled to by law. So if abortion is murder then it should be illegal as it is breaking the law. killing a fetus or fertilized egg is equal as killing a baby that has been born.

Many individual catholics and christians believe that there is nothing wrong with abortion because it is not mention in the bible as a wrong thing to do, but of course it isn’t because at the time there was no such thing as abortion and neither could it take place. The bible may not mention anything about abortion but it does mention “Thou shalt not kill”, this shows us that killing in any form of way is forbidden and should not be done. It does not have to mention anything about abortion for us to know that it is wrong.

Abortion is wrong, it is murder, there are better alternatives rather than killing your unborn child. If abortion was to become illegal and you are unable to look after your baby or you were raped and you did not want any thing to do with the baby you could go to social workers, foster carers and adoption centres, to find someone who will look after your child safely and well rather than having it killed. You may be thinking that you would not want someone else that you have never met or you don’t know to look after your child. However wouldn’t it be much better to tell them when their older that you were unable to look after them properly so you gave them up for adoption or to care, rather than telling them that you were unable to take care of them so you were thinking about have an abortion to kill them. Think about how would they feel? They would have to live the rest of their life knowing that their parents were thinking about killing them.