Abortion
Considering all the issues in our society today I feel abortion is one of the most volatile. Because it is such a controversial issue many Americans choose to look away and leave the decision making to lawmakers, doctors and emotional mothers in turn creating a modern day holocaust killing thousands of children a year. Abortion has a dramatic effect on society and has created a divided nation; should abortion be legal? Is it moral? In this essay I will examine the need for an amendment against abortion from a medical and psychological perspective.
Abortion is an issue that arose in America in the last couple of decades. If we look at history it was unthinkable for a woman to have an abortion for many reasons. One, children were viewed as a gift of heritage. Two, they believed it was God only who could open and close the womb and was sovereign over conception. Third, childlessness was seen as a curse. Since then I believe our respect for human life and moral values have plummeted causing doctors and lawmakers to think they have the right to determine whether or not it is wrong to slaughter an unborn child.
Many doctors will argue that life doesn't begin at conception and that the embryo is merely a piece of protoplasm. However, many medical studies lead to a pro-life perspective rather than a pro-choice perspective. If medical science can be used to draw the line it is at the moment of conception. J.C. Willke states, "To say that the developing baby is no different from the mother's appendix is scientifically inaccurate. A developing embryo is genetically different from the mother. A developing embryo is also genetically different from the sperm and egg that created it. A human being has 46 chromosomes (sometimes 47 chromosomes). Sperm and eggs have 23 chromosomes. A trained geneticist can distinguish between the DNA of an embryo and that of a sperm and egg. But that same geneticist could not distinguish between the DNA of a developing embryo and a...
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