Abortion Should Be Illegal

994 Words4 Pages
Abortion has been practiced by women worldwide since ancient times. The first recorded recipe for an abortion-producing drug was made in 2600 BC and ever since, women have been finding ways to remove unwanted fetuses and embryos. Most abortions were illegal in the United States by 1880, except those necessary to save the life of the woman.(“Abortion” 2 ) It’s like robbing a store and the ending result is murdering the store clerk, or doing a drive-by and killing an innocent by stander. Compare these things with taking a fetus out of a person and the ending result is the same, a deceased life. If you get an abortion is that killing someone, a human? Is abortion murder? Should abortions be illegal? Abortions should be illegal. One reason abortions should be illegal is because a fetus can be considered as a person; Abortion is murder. Another reason abortions should be illegal is because most religions believe that it is morally wrong. Finally by having an abortion you are decreasing the population. Abortion is the removal of a fetus from the body of a pregnant woman which results in the death of the fetus.(Pichler 5) The most essential question concerning abortion is: does a fetus have the right to be in the body of someone against there will? A fetus is the indication of an unborn human. A fetus is human because it has the DNA of a human. A fetus is alive a couple of weeks after being developed. This is before a woman finds out that she is pregnant. The fetus is a developing human with a heartbeat, the beginnings of arms, eyes, ears, and internal organs after only four weeks of development. Four weeks is generally the time that a mother discovers that she is pregnant. Life is a aspect of existence. When a woman becomes pregnant a fetus exists. A fetus is life just as an embryo, a sperm, an acorn, a tree, or you or me. Since a fetus is human, then the fetus should
Open Document