Abortion Should Not Be Legalized

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Abortion is the worst thing any woman on earth can possibly do to human dignity. It is a crime against life, because no woman has the right to kill a new living being. Many countries have put a band to abortion and many institutions also fight against it. Abortion is immoral and therefore it should not be legalized. Abortion is murder and the consequences for abortion should be similar ones to that of murder. Abortion is also a threat to the mother’s health. A woman can suffer an infection and also internal bleeding due to abortion. She can also become sterilized for life, which is the permanent inability to ever carry a child. The woman can also suffer many dangerous side effects and many complications after an abortion. There is also evidence which states that abortion can increase the risk of breast cancer. Unichef states that approximately 250,000 women die from both legal and illegal abortions every year. Of the 250,000 women, 75,000 of them die from self-infected abortions; another 75,000 die from convulsion; and the remaining 100,000 die from blood poisoning caused by an infection to the uterus. Therefore, if abortion is legalized, there will not only be more fetal murders, but also more death of mothers. Do women have the right to steal the life of a new living being? Killing a person is illegal, so why should the murder of a fetus be legal? You have to realize that abortion is murder, it is totally wrong, and when a woman has an abortion, it is her acting like any other murderer. Researchers have discovered that life begins at the moment of conception in the mother’s uterus, and therefore abortion puts an end to human life and should be punishable in the eyes of the law. Adoption is always another alternative to abortion, since there are many families wanting to adopt a child. So, there is no such thing as an unwanted child. There are many women living
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