Debate:Abortion

I am against abortion, and believe that it should be illegal because killing an unborn child can easily be considered morally wrong as well as murder. The Federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was enacted to protect unborn children from assault and murder states,”That under federal law, anybody intentionally killing or attempting to kill an unborn child should be punished... for intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being."

Secondly, fetuses experience pain; Maureen Condic PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Utah University states that,“The most primitive response to pain, the spinal cord is developed by eight weeks gestation. And there is a universal agreement that pain is detected.” Also, a 12 week old fetus can be seen silently screaming during an abortion. Abortions also can cause psychological damage, based on a peer reviewed study from 2008 published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health found that, "Young adult women who undergo abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent depression." A 2002 peer-reviewed study published by the Southern Medical Journal stated that,"Of more than 173,000 American women found, that women who aborted were 54% more likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term.

Abortion also reduces the number adoptable babies. Instead of having abortion, one could state that they should put their children up for adoption so that they at least could have a life if they're not ready to have a child.

Abortion is promoting a culture in which human life is disposable. House Representative Randy Hultgren wrote the following in Jan. 2014,"When we tell one another that abortion is okay, we reinforce the idea that human lives are disposable, that we can throw away anything or anyone that inconveniences us." Abortion prevents the possible future contributions of an unborn human being, as well.

Finally, the original text of the Hippocratic Oath, traditionally taken by doctors when swearing to practice medicine ethically, forbids abortion. It states, “I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion."

Therefore, I am against abortion.