Abortion

            Abortion is wrong because abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being. The only time abortion is okay is in cases of rape, incest, and a threat to the life of the mother. Abortion is like murder. When a woman is pregnant, the new life she carries is a complete and fully new human being from the moment of fertilization. By the time most abortions can be performed, the baby already has a beating heart and identifiable brain waves. The baby living in her mother is as distinct and unique human being as you are from anyone else, and as deserving of protection under the law as we are. .
             At some stage during pregnancy, a fetus becomes capable of feeling pain. Pro-life advocates believe that a fetus as early as 7 weeks after conception can feel pain. Thus, they believe that a fetus can feel pain part way through the first trimester, when most abortions are performed. .
             "By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak--the unborn child--must go out into the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for," said Mother Teresa.
             Worldwide, millions of unborn babies are killed each year. In the United States over 40 million unborn babies have been killed in the 29 years since abortion was legalized and more than 1.3 million are killed each year.