Abortion

When you think about political issues, many things come to mind. Almost, undoubtedly, abortion is one of those things. There is no arguement sufficient enough to steer my mind away from anti-abortion. Most people think of the circumstance of the woman, and what the pregnancy might cause and therefore jump to the conclusion that seems simplest: eliminate the baby; eliminate the problem. Unfortunately, it is rare for a woman to think about the physical consequences of the abortion itself. First and foremost, a fetus is a baby. a woman usually only even begins to consider that she might be pregnant 31 days after her missed period. Abortions do not usually take place before the baby is seven weeks old. At this point the fetus is a baby. The baby's heart has already started beating, it's arms and legs are noticeable as such, and it desplays measurable brainwaves. This baby is alive, human, and developing.Abortion is murder. Murder is defined as "the malicious or predetermined killing of one human being by another." By the end of this essay, I'm sure you will agree that the procedures are both malicious, and predetermined. It is illegal to harm an animal, to treat a pet wrongly, yet we have given a mother the right to muder her own child, even without true ligitimate cause. Despite any imperfections in the child, it is still a human being, therefore establishing the act as murder. If you take away the loopholes and false justifications, would taking these imperfect babies that possibly may suffer diseases or deformities, and killing them because of their infirmities be much different than Adolf Hitler destroying innocent lives because of what he saw in them as imperfections? Approximately eleven million people were killed during the holocause, six million because of what was seen by one human being as inadequacies.