If you want to start a very heated argument in a short period of time, just venture to bring up the topic of Abortion in a crowded room. Tempers are sure to flare in record breaking time. It is perhaps, one of the most talked about subjects of our time and is a topic that brings emotions to the surface on both sides of the issue. People both for and against abortion give strong arguments to state their opinions. Rarely a day goes by without media coverage of one side or the other. People who are in favor of abortion are called "pro-choice"; those who oppose abortion are referred to as "pro-life.".
After giving much thought to the subject, I have formed some very strong opinions of my own. While I admit that my opinions have been formed partially because of my upbringing and the influence of my church, I have not solely based my stand against abortion on the religious aspect of it.
I have heard first hand a lot of the reasons that people are in favor of abortion. Many of the people who claim to be "pro-choice" have a misunderstanding of what pro-choice really stands for. They believe that being pro-choice merely means that they are in favor of each woman deciding for herself whether she will or will not have a child. I have heard the comment many times, " I am not pro-abortion, I am pro-choice." Unfortunately, there is no middle ground. Every woman should have the right to choose to have or not to have a child. I feel that that choice should be made before a child is conceived. Once a child has been conceived the woman does have a child. The only option that abortion gives is to make her the mother of a dead baby.
There are very few people today who will argue that the fetus is not yet a child. It is referred to as a "mass of cells" many times by those who favor abortion. Have you ever heard an expectant mother who was looking forward to the birth of her child refer to her baby as a "mass of cells"? When .
A lot of sexual abuse cases are not even reported. ... The problem with this situation is that its destroying young kids mind. ... The older lady also, invigorated her to have relations with men of her choice. ... As a child you have no choice but to listen to what an adult tell you. ... Eventually I had no choice but to come out and tell her what happen. ...
The short story "Godfather Death- written by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm talks of how a man who has one too many children realizes he can not afford another child. ... The first person he meets is God, who in reality is a perfect choice because he promises to look after the child and give him a happy life on earth. Out of ignorance as to who God really is, the man chooses to bypass God for fear that He will not look after the child fairly, because the child came from a poor family. Although he wisely chooses not to select the devil as the child's future godfather out of fear that the devil w...
When faced with a decision in life, big or small, people try to make the best choices. However, despite good intentions, people often make poor choices. ... Then these poor choices lead to other wrong actions that reflect their guilt. ... She commits the sin of adultery with a minister, Arthur Dimmesdale and has a child, Pearl. ... "Such helpfulness was found in her,-so much...that many people refused to interpret the scarlet "A" by its original signification. ...
Pro Life meaning that abortion is wrong and should be illegal while, pro choice means that abortion should be legal since it's a choice. ... Everyday, a child who is not even born yet is facing whether he or she will be born or not. ... If the child is not alive, why does it suck its thumb during the ultrasounds? ... That child could have changed the world. ... If you don't want or love your child, someone else will. ...
Just because the unborn child is dependent on the mother for nine months does not give anyone the right to end its life. For those who are pro-choice, what about the effects on the mother? ... The child who exists in the womb was created by God in a pure act of love. Human life does not begin when the baby breathes, or when its heart begins to beat; Psalms 139:16 states: "Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, And in your book all its parts were down in writing, As regards the days when they were formed And there was not yet one among them." ... For now the choice is ultimately yours....
(Langer p. 221) Langer cites how a "choiceless choice" did not reflect options during the Holocaust, but how victims were put in situations that were not of their choice. ... A perfect example of this is how mothers of newborn children were given the choice to either give up their newborn child so that it could be killed or accompany their child to the gas chamber; which ever was their decision their child was to be murdered. Here, the mother did not really have a logical choice. ... This simply can not be seen as a moral choice due to its impossibility. ... We should be grateful that our live...
Some have been abandoned by the fathers, and in the saddest cases, women who wanted a child have abortions because the fetus has serious defects or damage to organs or its brain (Facts about Abortion). ... Who would want to give birth to a child that was not conceived out of love, but out of malice and transgression? ... But just as blueprints are not a building, a set of chromosomes is not a person (Pro-Choice & Viability). ... Women have the competency to determine whether they are ready to have a child or not. ... Abortion and the right to have one should be a personal choice, not a po...
Whether it is an adult who can walk and talk or a child that is still within the mother's womb, it has a soul that dies when its body is killed. ... By the time the mother has been swept up in her choice to abort her child, the bonding between the mother and child that often occurs in pregnancy has not yet made the child seem "real" to the mother, and abortion seems to be a quick fix (ALL 136). ... If so, your mother made a choice that saved your life. ... A child should not have to pay for the parent's mistake. ... (Reagan 3) There is no doubt that the unborn child had any lesser ...
There is the pro-choice and the pro-life. ... The termination of the pregnancy might have to do with the health of the mother herself, maybe the mother is unable to attend to the child's needs after its born, resulting in child abuse and mental disease. ... What some people don't seem to understand is that abortion is not an easy way out. ... A choice needs to be available to prevent the birth of unwanted children, to avoid damage to the child as well as to safeguard the emotional and physical health of women. ... What it mainly comes down to is how each individual perceives each sit...