Abortion: Is It Really Moral?
While I am known to many as a person with very liberal views, I take a departure from my liberalism when confronted with the issue of abortion. Over the years, my position has changed drastically from pro-choice to pro-life. I believe that you must look at this issue from a moral point of view. A popular belief is that a person is truly alive when one is born. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary defines life and the state of being alive as “human activity; time when something functions; animated; full of life; being in existence.” People who are pro-choice argue that a person is not deemed alive until they are born, but is a person not alive and functioning when it develops a heart and a brain? Is it not a living organism? Is it not full of life and growing into a complete human being? How can you not say that a human embryo is not alive if it has such traits? Purposefully killing a human, no matter what form it is in, is cold blooded murder and is immoral. Shame on those who support the intentional killing of human lives just because they don’t want to be responsible for their actions that may have resulted in the creation of another innocent human life.
If abortion is made legal, it would send a resonating message to our teens that they don’t have to take responsibility for their actions and that it is ok to have unprotected sex because if they were to get pregnant, all they have to do is get an abortion and not be stuck with the task of taking care of a human. We must make abortion illegal on the federal level because we must send a clear message to our teens, they must take responsibility for their actions. Don’t do the deed unless you are prepared and ready to pay the price that comes along with it. Making abortion illegal on the federal level also forces teens to use either contraceptives or condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancy. This also has an added bonus as it would reduce the number of STD’s that are transmitted each year and it would force teens to have sex responsibly or just not have sex at all.
Im sure many pro-choice people who read this editorial will say that a person cannot be told what they can or cannot do with their bodies, but abortion affects another human being. While the human organism isn’t fully developed and is inside the mother’s body, there can be no doubt about it that the organism is alive, and to say otherwise is just plain asinine and idiotic. While it functions independently from the mother, it is not dead, nor is it not full of life. There is nothing that can justify the argument that an independent functioning organism that has a brain and a heart is not alive. If it isn’t alive, then what the hell is it? So, once again I ask the question, is abortion moral? No it is not, and to say otherwise is iniquitous and immoral in itself.
Making abortion illegal will break out another argument, this time with the females. They will ask, what if they don’t want the baby because it puts a damper on their dreams and goals? Well, first of all, I say you shouldn’t have had unprotected sex in the first place if it was consensual. Getting pregnant is the price you have to pay for taking that action. That is not to say that their plans for their life ahead are in jeopardy. If they have to take care of a child, there are plenty of other sources to get money to not only take care of your child, but pay for any schooling that you may want to go after while you have a child. They come in the form of government grants and loans. I see no excuse what so ever that a pregnant or teenage mother cant go to college and be able to pay for it and continue with her life plans. The money is free and it is there, and all they have to do is find it. Get up, look, and get the money. Don’t complain to the government or anyone else about your dilemma that you caused by getting pregnant in the first place (unless you were raped, then we can be a lot more lenient).
If abortion is made legal, it would send a resonating message to our teens that they don’t have to take responsibility for their actions and that it is ok to have unprotected sex because if they were to get pregnant, all they have to do is get an abortion and not be stuck with the task of taking care of a human. We must make abortion illegal on the federal level because we must send a clear message to our teens, they must take responsibility for their actions. Don’t do the deed unless you are prepared and ready to pay the price that comes along with it. Making abortion illegal on the federal level also forces teens to use either contraceptives or condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancy. This also has an added bonus as it would reduce the number of STD’s that are transmitted each year and it would force teens to have sex responsibly or just not have sex at all.
Im sure many pro-choice people who read this editorial will say that a person cannot be told what they can or cannot do with their bodies, but abortion affects another human being. While the human organism isn’t fully developed and is inside the mother’s body, there can be no doubt about it that the organism is alive, and to say otherwise is just plain asinine and idiotic. While it functions independently from the mother, it is not dead, nor is it not full of life. There is nothing that can justify the argument that an independent functioning organism that has a brain and a heart is not alive. If it isn’t alive, then what the hell is it? So, once again I ask the question, is abortion moral? No it is not, and to say otherwise is iniquitous and immoral in itself.
Making abortion illegal will break out another argument, this time with the females. They will ask, what if they don’t want the baby because it puts a damper on their dreams and goals? Well, first of all, I say you shouldn’t have had unprotected sex in the first place if it was consensual. Getting pregnant is the price you have to pay for taking that action. That is not to say that their plans for their life ahead are in jeopardy. If they have to take care of a child, there are plenty of other sources to get money to not only take care of your child, but pay for any schooling that you may want to go after while you have a child. They come in the form of government grants and loans. I see no excuse what so ever that a pregnant or teenage mother cant go to college and be able to pay for it and continue with her life plans. The money is free and it is there, and all they have to do is find it. Get up, look, and get the money. Don’t complain to the government or anyone else about your dilemma that you caused by getting pregnant in the first place (unless you were raped, then we can be a lot more lenient).
posted by Kayamone Sutton at 7/26/2004 08:01:00 AM
2 Comments:
What I don't like about pro-lifers is that they are so pushy! You don't see people that are pro-choice going around telling others to have abortions! I belive a person should have the right to control what happens to their bodies and their lives. An embryo is not as you say "independent" considering it wouldn't be able to live outside of the mother's body. Yeah it has a DEVELOPING brain and heart, but neither one of them can actually support life on their own yet.
And it's not about women using abortion as a form of birth control! I know ppl who have had abortions and it was not a pleasant experience! People aren't just reckless when they have unplanned pregnancies. Sometimes the condom breaks. Sometimes the pill doesn't work very well. Sometimes a young girl is raped. What is she supposed to do? You can't make abortion illegal, with the exeption of rape cases. Do you have any idea how many people will claim they've been raped? Or are the ones who actually have been supposed to keep that baby? The way you look at it, that's a life too! Why should the an innocent fetus be killed? Wasn't its fault!
And you say women can still get a college education even if they have a baby? Loan, of course! Why didn't everyone think of that before! So do you honestly think the government has enough money to go around for all the young mothers that, according to you, should keep their babies? But even if they did, exactly how much do you think they will give them? Enough for food, clothing and shelter? Probably. Student loan for education? Maybe. But while this mother is off to school, what happens to the baby? She can't take it with her! She won't have enough money to pay a nanny! And while she studies? That baby will grow up alone and eprived of many things, if it suvives at all!
Best thing is to leave it up to people themselves. A woman should be allowed to have an abortion up until the end of the second trimester, and that is where the line should be drawn becuase she should have had enough time to think about it until then and bc in the 7th month of the pregnancy is when the cerebral cortex starts to develop.
Don't be so quick to judge people, becuase you never know the circumstances they got pregnant under or their situation or anything about their lives. There is no government that can tell me what to do and not to do with my own body!
Miss Ema,
Only an idiot, when forced to weigh the following, would value liberty alone over the life and liberty of another.
The consequences of your argument that an organism must be able to support life on its own would be that it would be morally acceptably to vacuum the brains out of a two year old's skull. If only liberals showed such heartless hatred towards Arab terrorists instead of innocent children.
As for your convience argument, I find that the termination of a life is more inconvienent for the child than the fiscal hardship placed on the parents.
I'm not sure how abortion is supposed to help the woman who is raped (and you can't help but remind people enough that the majority of the 1.3 million abortions a year are done on rape victims!). The woman undergoes two psychologically traumatic events--the rape and the abortion. The child undergoes the traumatic event of dying. I think most rational people, when given the choice, of being raped and having a child cut out of their womb, or just raped--I think they'll take the rape.
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