If women become pregnant, they should accept the responsibility that comes with producing a child
People need to take responsibility for their actions and accept the consequences. Having sexual intercourse, even when contraceptive methods are used, carries with it the risk of a pregnancy. The unborn baby should not be punished for a mistake made by adults. If women are unprepared to care for their children, they should at least put them up for adoption.
Abortions reduce the number of adoptable babies.
Instead of having the option to abort, women should give their unwanted babies to people who cannot conceive. The percentage of infants given up for adoption in the United States declined from 9% of those born before 1973 to 0.5% of those born in 2014. As a result of the lack of women putting their children up for adoption, the number of US infant adoptions dropped from about 90,000 in 1971 to 18,329 in 2014. Around 2.6 million Americans are seeking to adopt children. Furthermore, there is now more US tax dolars funding planned parenthood than fosterhomes and adoption centers.
Women should not be able to use abortion as a form of contraception.
It is immoral to kill an unborn child for convenience. The Guttmacher Institute reported that 45% of all women having abortions every year have had at least one previous abortion, while 8.6% of abortions reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014 were undergone by women who had three or more previous abortions. This suggests that many women are using abortion as a contraceptive method. After abortion was legalized, conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent, but births actually fell by 6 percent, indicating that many women were using abortion as a method of birth control which is a crude and drastic sort of insurance policy.
Abortion is the killing of a human being, which defies the word of God.
The Bible does not draw a distinction between fetuses and babies: the Greek word brephos is used in the Bible to refer to both an unborn child and an infant. By the time a baby is conceived, he or she is recognized by God, as demonstrated in Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.” The Sixth Commandment of the Bible’s Old Testament, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13), applies to all human beings, including unborn babies. In the Hindu religion, the holy text Kaushitaki Upanishad states that abortion is an equivalent misdeed to killing one’s own parents. Also, traditional Buddhism rejects abortion because it involves the deliberate destroying of a life.
Allowing abortion conflicts with the unalienable right to life recognized by the Founding Fathers of the United States.
The Declaration of Independence states that “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Abortion takes away from the unborn the unalienable right to life that the Founding Fathers intended for all human beings.
Abortions cause psychological damage.
A peer-reviewed study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health found that “Young adult women who undergo… abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent depression.” A peer-reviewed study published in BMC Medicine found that women who underwent an abortion had “significantly higher” anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale up to five years after the pregnancy termination. A peer-reviewed study published by the Southern Medical Journal of more than 173,000 American women found that women who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term. A study published in the British Medical Journal reported that the mean annual suicide rate amongst women who had an abortion was 34.7 per 100,000, compared with a mean rate of 11.3 per 100,000 in the general population of women. A Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology study of men whose partners had abortions found that 51.6% of the men reported regret, 45.2% felt sadness, and 25.8% experienced depression.
Abortion eliminates the potential societal contributions of a future human being.
According to Heisman Trophy-winning football player Tim Tebow, “the reason I’m here” is because his mother ignored the advice of doctors who recommended an abortion. It has also been reported that the mothers of entertainers Celine Dion, Cher, and Justin Bieber were either advised to have abortions or were considering the procedure, but chose to give birth to their babies instead.
Abortion disproportionately affects African American babies.
In the United States, black women are 3.3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute. In New York City in 2015, more black babies were aborted (23,720) than had live births (23,116). The origins of abortion were also aimed at decreasing the African American population which is obviously racist and obsurd that this practice is still supported.
Fetuses feel pain during the abortion procedure.
Maureen Condic, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, explains that the “most primitive response to pain, the spinal reflex,” is developed by eight weeks gestation, and adds that “There is universal agreement that pain is detected by the fetus in the first trimester.” According to Kanwaljeet J. S. Anand, MBBS, DPhil, Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, “If the fetus is beyond 20 weeks of gestation, I would assume that there will be pain caused to the fetus. And I believe it will be severe and excruciating pain.” Bernard N. Nathanson, MD, the late abortion doctor who renounced his earlier work and became a pro-life activist, stated that when an abortion is performed on a 12-week-old fetus, “We see [in an ultrasound image] the child’s mouth open in a silent scream… This is the silent scream of a child threatened imminently with extinction.”
In conclusion, abortions are soley performed out of conveniece for many people. It is just an option or excuse that people exercise to resolve their irresponsibltities and negligences. I personally believe that abortion is a serious offense to God and many people are living overly sinful lifestyles with their continued support and execution of innocent babies!
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