Abortion Should Be Outlawed

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Abortion should be outlawed Bertha Ritchie English 101 Instructor CB Droege, MAE 8/31/12 Nobody should have the legal right to take away someone’s life. Women shouldn’t be granted the right to kill for any reason. Abortion is taking away life no matter how small, unseen or undeveloped that life may be it should be seen as murder. Abortion is killing and going against our humanity. There is only love and hate it’s up to us to choose between them. “We shouldn’t allow discrimination against an entire class of living humans” (Willke) “Never in modern time-except by a small group of physicians in Hitler’s Germany - has a price tag been placed on an individual human life as the price of its continued existence” (Willke)“Never in modern times – except by physicians in Hitler’s Germany – has a certain physical perfection been required as a condition necessary for the continuation of that life” (Willke)“Never in modern time has the state granted to one citizen the absolute legal right to have another killed in order to solve their own personal, social or economic problem.” (Willke) Life is life no matter what stage it is in. Define “Alive” “Alive means the being is growing, developing, maturing, and replacing its own dying cells. It means not being dead.” (Willke).Define “Person” “Person is defined in at least a dozen different ways, according to the field or discipline in which you define it. In theology it usually means when the soul is created.” (Willke) Abortion is murder. Define murder “murder” “the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought (a premeditation or predetermination)” (Murder, 2012). This is what the abortionist does during the procedure. “The fetus is rotated and forceps are used to grasp and pull the legs, shoulders and arms through the birth canal. A small incision is made at the base of the
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