Danielle Lois L. Yu Mr.

Napoleon Joyo
RS-55 NA

“A voice from the womb you were not meant to hear”

Do you consider something with a beating heart a living creature? A baby heart

forms and starts beating in the fifth week of pregnancy; therefore, that would make
abortion murder. The baby that is growing inside of the woman is depending on her, so
when she makes the choice to end that baby's life. They are making the choice to murder
another person. 

There are many abortions performed each year. Seventy-five percent of all
abortions are performed on women over twenty years of age. Twenty percent of teens that
are sexually active do not use any form of birth control. These are the teens that end up
getting pregnant and getting an abortion. If these girls would use some kind of
contraceptive it could stop a lot of the abortions performed each year. If people think about
it, it is so much easier to take a pill then it is to be pregnant and have to decide on the life of
another person. When someone feels that they are responsible enough to participate in
sexual activity, they should also feel that they are responsible enough to deal with the
consequences that follow. 

Someone that believes in the pro-choice theory would say that the decision is up to the
woman, but the person with the pro-life theory would say that it is murder no matter what
the situation. Most people consider it murder to kill a baby the day after it is born. Then
why would it not be murder to kill it before it is born? 

Abortions are often considered "the easy way out." I feel that abortions are just selfish.
There is no easy way out. I could not imagine living with the guilt of taking another's life,
especially the life of something that I created, and that is dependent of me. There are so
many people out there that wish they had the chance to get pregnant. If they really feel that
you are not ready to be a parent then the person could at least give the baby up for
adoption, and make their life, that baby's life, and the family adopting the babies' life a lot
happier. 

Many of the people that have abortions take advantage of it and use abortion as a form of
birth control. I can understand that having a baby might ruin someone's life, or so they
think, but what about the life that you are ruining when they have an abortion. In a way, it
is taking away a piece of them, a piece of them that they will never be able to get back.
What if the baby that they killed could have grown up to be the president of the United
States, or discovered a cure for a disease that they might have when there are older? There
are so many things that need to be considered. 

The procedure of abortion is very gruesome. Have you ever seen the results of an abortion?
It is scary. Maybe if the results of abortion were more widely discussed then it might
change the way people think and feel about the topic. Maybe if people really knew what
happens to their baby, they would consider it murder too. Just think that of all the lives
people could change if they were more conscious about their actions.