Reasons Why Abortion Should be Outlawed

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Why Preserving Life is Good
Abortion is one of the most contentious issues in the political arena in the West. There has been a heated debate on whether to legalize abortion or outlaw it irrespective of the reasons or circumstances. Most pro-abortion activists have been labeled dangerous and murderers, which shows how the debate has been heated for decades and spilled into the political arenaCITATION Del19 \p 1 \l 1033 (Delay and Liger 1). The discussion has also spilled into drawing the line and determining when life starts. This question is philosophical and will remain intractable and at the center of abortion debates. There is no significant difference between a day’s old embryo and an adult. Terminating a life with unique genetic material and, if given a chance, can develop into a fetus, infant, teenager, and eventually, an adult makes some lives more important than others. Therefore, preserving conceived life is important because differences in size, the complexity of development, and the degree of dependency on another person are not good reasons to terminate a life.
One of the key reasons abortions should be outlawed is that it terminates innocent lives. Firstly, any person is entitled to life in the constitution. The 14th amendment of the US constitution stipulates that anyone should not be deprived of their life without the due process of the law. At conception, a new life begins, and while it does not have the complexity, we have come to associate life with it, it is the beginning of a new life. No life can skip that process, and therefore it is an integral part of whatever complex being it can develop into. That early beginning of any life should also be protected and treated as any other life. Secondly, the unborn child inside the woman is oblivious of the circumstances that led to its conception and should be left to grow to term and be born. Terminating the life of an innocent person is akin to murdering another person, which is illegal anywhere on the planet. Therefore, just because a child cannot breathe or feed themselves, they should not be treated as lesser human beings and killed at the convenience of another person. They deserve a chance at life. If the woman cannot raise the child, there are many places where the child can be placed for adoption. Many people have made the hard choice to put their children for adoption rather than killing them, and they have gone on to have very good lives. According to CITATION Bit02 \p 1 \l 1033 (Bitler and Madeline 1), ‘the rate of adoptions of children born to white women declined by 34-37% in states that repealed restrictive abortion laws before Roe v. Wade.’ Mothers can be encouraged and supported to carry the pregnancy to term and give up their children to abortion rather than assisting them to terminate innocent young lives. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption, and since he was raised in a loving family, he went on to change the world. Therefore, mothers should consider carrying the pregnancy to term and giving the child adoption if they do not want the baby. They may change the world someday. It is better to give birth and let the child be a blessing to another family where they are wanted than to kill it.
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