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Abortion in Canada - A Crime Against Humanity


Every year in Canada, over 100 000 murders never reach the
courtroom.1 They never reach the courtroom because they are completely
legal. Abortion continues to grow across the world, hurting and killing
children, as well as their mothers. Abortion is immoral, harmful, and actions must be taken to stop it.

When a woman aborts, she is not only killing her child but is also
harming herself. Legal abortion is the fifth leading cause of maternal
death.2 Ten percent of women undergoing abortion suffer immediate
complications, and one fifth of those are consid ered life threatening.3 Teenage aborters are at an even higher risk.4

These serious conditions include infection, embolisms, convulsions,
hemorrhage, and endotoxic poisoning.5 By having an abortion, a woman
doubles her chances of getting breast or cerv ical cancer. Every consequent abortion increases these chances.6 Physical damage, however, is merely the beginning. Aborted mothers will also suffer many psychological effects as well. These include nightmares,
hysterical outbreaks, feelings of immense guilt, and fear of punishment from God.7 In fact, aborted women visit doctors for psychosocial reasons 180% more than other women.8 Abortion may seem like a quick fix at the time, but there can be many and harsh
consequenc! es.

Yet even if a mother is willing to accept the consequences, she is
taking away a human life. Purely biologically speaking, it is undeniable
that a fetus is a human, and an individual. at the moment of conception,
the fetus has a DNA that is different from his or her mother. By three weeks, the baby's heart is pumping its own circulatory system with a blood type different from its mother.9

Doctors measure the end of life by brain death. It is then reasonable to
say that the...