She goes on to compare herself to a rising loaf of bread and a fat coin purse full of newly-minted money. ... She uses these metaphors trying to find understanding in how she feels about what's going on with her and her body. ... When one visualizes a big round melon atop two tendrils - "tendrils" Plath uses to describe thin, delicate legs compared to the load above - the image of a pregnant woman with her large round belly awkwardly placed atop legs that don't seem strong enough to lug around her heavy load comes to life. ...

• Word Count: 1396
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The embryo is growing quickly and the arm and leg buds will soon sprout. ... At five weeks the arm buds and leg buds have sprouted. ... By about 280 days after conception the mother is ready to go into labour. ...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on"- Carl Sandberg. ... Going back to the original cell, composed of the parent's united contribution, all cells which make up a person's body descend. ... The four week old embryo has no arms and legs yet. ... Also the weight of the uterus is makes the veins in your legs work more than it should be to pump all the extra blood back to the heart. ... The mother is going to have frequent checkups from her obstetrician and might feel a lot of aches in the buttocks and pelvic area. ...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

(Strong supportive Introduction) Written in acknowledgement of the on-going annual march in support of unborn babies' lives, Christopher Hale's "Why Progressives Should Oppose Abortion " is an article that offers many understandable reasons for one to be on the pro-life side of the debate. ... One may ask in response to his suggestion that a baby with facial features, hands and legs, and fingerprints is a human being: "What if the fetus doesn't have such features at the time of abortion? ... "What if the baby has developed hands and legs but not a facial structure?"" ...

• Word Count: 1720
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is not just a part of the mother like an arm or a leg. ... Lastly, why should a woman go through horrible health problems which might take her life because of an unborn, some might same "not human" life. ... If I was raped or my child was going to have defects I know that I would choose to have an abortion to avoid the extreme suffering waiting to happen. If I became pregnant accidentally I hope that I would go ahead and have the baby so as not to kill a human life even though I didn't particularly want it. ...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Imagine you are sitting in a waiting room, eagerly looking at the clock. You are nervous about what is to come and you are dreading what you could be hearing from your doctor. You are called into the examination room. The doctor tells you that you are pregnant. This happens every day for young girls...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Abortion is the most difficult and controversial moral issue. Both sides (pro-life and pro-choice) have important moral insights. The insights however may outweigh one another depending on personal outlooks. The moral status of abortion may be defined as the act which a woman performs in voluntarily...

• Word Count: 1305
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Imagine you are sitting in a waiting room, eagerly looking at the clock. You are nervous about what is to come and you are dreading what you could be hearing from your doctor. You are called into the examination room. The doctor tells you that you are pregnant. This happens every day for young girls...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Is it legs, feet, hands some human form, or is it knowledge, reason, wisdom? ... The initial solution that came to mind was to start a governmentally funded program that would allow pregnant women to take a week of tours of abortion clinics, and seminars where both views of abortion would help the woman, or family members, decide before actually going through an abortion operation or before her/there final decision. ... It is also scientifically proven that males and females tend to go through puberty ranging from age eleven to thirteen. ...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

About once a day, somewhere in the US, something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live baby (Melville 5). ... Using an ultra sound the abortionist grabs the baby's legs with forceps and pulls them out into the birth canal. ... Abortion is wrong because it deprives the baby of rights and happiness because of the suffering it must go through during the abortion (Factbot). ...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

With Jayden being born two days before that limit, Sarah's desires and pleas went unanswered, even after her child was breathing on his own and moving his arms and legs. ... After going into preterm labor at only 19 weeks, Taylor told doctors that she was actually 21 weeks pregnant. ...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

"Davie, where are you going?"... One leg was bent back, under him. ... It was a vicious cycle, that wasn't going to end. I was not going to be killed by this crazy man. ... He was going to kill me or my unborn baby. ...

• Word Count: 2115
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School