The strict dictionary definition of abortion is "Induced termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or fetus that is incapable of survival." An alternate definition, ironic in such a controversial issue, is "a monstrosity" (however this is obviously not the word's common usage).
Facts:
1.6 millions children are killed in the United States yearly via abortion.
39 out of every 1000 women of childbearing age receive abortions every year.
In Africa, an estimated 680 of every 100,000 women who undergo an abortion die of some complications.
Abortion has been legal for sine January 22, 1973. On this date the Supreme Court handed down the historic Roe v. Wade decision which said that a baby is the property of the mother and can be killed.
What arguments supported this? One was: “These children are unwanted and will be abused.” Interesting, in the years since this decision the amount of child abuse has exploded. Another: The overpopulation of the world demands this. First off, there is enough room for everyone in the world to make his own food and provide for his own needs in and area the size of Texas. Overpopulation is not the problem. Especially in the United States. In the recent years nearly 1 out of 3 babies are aborted. This amounts to about 1.6 million babies aborted yearly in the United States. The death rate is actually higher than the birth rate.
Another Argument: What about cases of rape? Only about 200 pregnancies from rape occur every year. The argument itself is faulty in that the “problem” occurs such a small fraction of the time. However most women who are raped and become pregnant and choose to abort the child do so because they worry what people will think of them.
Another Argument I’ve heard: If I have the baby, my boyfriend will dump me/ parents will disown me.
Many pregnant women (usually teenagers) are faced with this problem. Of those who have the abortion, 5/6 lose that relationship within two months of having the abortion. Of those who have the child, 4/6 end up marrying their boyfriends, and almost none are disowned by their parents.
Argument: But you're not really killing the fetus, since it was never really alive.
Most scientists now agree that human life starts at conception. So yes, you are killing the fetus.
Abortion has existed for thousands of years. Ancient tribes would abuse the lower abdomen of pregnant women which caused the child to die or be born prematurely. From the beginning of the Hebrew nation, unborn life was seen to be just as precious as born life. In the early 1900s 1 in 6 pregnancies were abortions.
There wasn't serious opposition to this belief that the unborn were children until the mid-twentieth century. Groups such as The National Abortion and Reproduction Rights League in the United States appeared, saying that unborn life was not life after all. These gained support as the number of illegal abortions increased in the late 1960s. NARAL promised that abortion doesn't hurt the fetuses, and that by legalizing abortion child abuse, illegal abortion, and teen pregnancy rates would be decreased. However this is quite the contrary.
