abort than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19

year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the

rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent.

The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189

per 1,000.

The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum

aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or

less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply

inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are

vacuumed out. The most commonly used type of second trimester

abortion is called dilation and evacuation. Since the fetus has bones,

bulk and can move, second trimester is not as simple. When as

much of the fetus and placenta are vacuumed out then tweezers are

used to remove larger parts. After this, or the beginning of the fifth

month abortion is serious and actually induced as childbirth. That is,

the mother is given substances which puts her into labor and delivers

the fetus as she would a full-term baby. About 40 percent of

Americans believe that abortion should remain legal and 40 percent

believe it should be banned except when the pregnancy threatens the

life of the mother or is the result of rape or incest. Also 15 percent b

eveit should be illegal in all cases. Although abortion is regarded as a

women s right, it should be banned with exceptions because it s

considered murder, has many psychological side effects and there is

an alternative.

Abortion is a women s own right and choice. In 1973 the Roe v.

Wade decision proved this by recognizing abortion as a fundamental

constitution right and made it legal in all states. The law now permits

abortion at the request of the women without any restrictions in the

first trimester and some restrictions in the second trimester to protect

the women s health. The National Abortion Right Act League

argues that without legal abortion women would be denied their

constitutional right of privacy and liberty. The women s right to her

own body subordinates those of the fetus and the U.S. Supreme

Court in Roe v. Wade argued that the women s "right to privacy"

overruled the fetus s right to life. If abortion was illegal it would

force poor women to bear and raise children they can t afford to

bring up. There would be a number of unsafe abortions in back

allies. It would also force women to give up their dreams and stay

home to bring up babies. Worst of all, it would condemn victims o

apeand incest to carry and nurture the offspring of their

rapist.(Kolner 5) Abortion is necessary for women to have control

over their own bodies and life. One activist said, "If I hadn t had that

abortion my life would have been a disaster. I wouldn t have made it

to medical school. I was married at that point to a very ill man and it

would have been terrible to have to have my baby. People who

need abortions are in some kind of turmoil and it s really a

life-saving thing."(Blender 4) To ignore the rights of others is selfish

and injustice. Women must have the right to control the functions of

their own bodies. Revern George Gardiner pastor of the college Hill

United Methodist Church, told the council that the ordnance would

have done little good. "Young women need the freedom to make

choices for their reproductive life when their family can t guarantee

them parental support."(Lynn B6-7) Women should not be forced

to have babies they don t want. They must be able to decide what

happe ns to them and have a safe plus legal way of doing so.

Women are in control of their own bodies and lives. Legislators

have no right to interfere. The practical assertion that since

pregnancy involves a women s body, the choice of continuing that

pregnancy must be hers alone. This was the first given buerful

theoretical articulation and defense by Judith Thomson.(meilander 3)

However, abortion is considered murder by half of all Americans.

Pro-lifers believe that human life begins at the moment of

conception. When the merge of the egg and sperm is complete, they

are fertilized and known as the "zygote". The zygote contains a full

set of 46 chromosomes which is required to create a human life.

Scientists identify that at the moment of fertilization the ovum takes

on a entirely different destiny, life. About 15,000 genes from the

sperm and ovum form a unique combination. This is nothing less than

a new human life at its earlier stage of life. In the United States many

infants will not make it to puberty, old age or even their second

birthday. Just because of their shortened life, it doesn t mean that it

never existed. Dr. Nathanson stopped preforming abortions after

becoming aware of the horrors he observed. "A woman has the right

to go to bed with who she wants, but she can not choose death for

her child. It s a direct violation of human rights." (Koval i grid c-7)

Anthony Simpson has a photo of a aborted fetus and believes that

abortion is nothing less but ruthless murder. In southern Kentucky,

Robert Hollis brutally assaulted his wife in effort to abort the fetus he

suspected wasn t his. He successfully did so and Caroll believed

Hollis set out intentionally to kill that fetus and that is in fact murder.

Kristina Kleg a graduate from high school has recently become

pregnant and decided against abortion. She feels that it s an innocent

child inside of her. It has a brain and a heart therefore it also has a

right to life. "Abortion is the unnatural end of pregnancy. That child

has a right to life that is equal to the mothers right. One cannot kill

another human being just because they wished it wasn t around.

Abortion is murder of the innocent practiced on a national scale."

(Abortion: The Personal, Medical and Social Dilemma) Overall it

has been proven that the fetus is a real person. It responds to noise,

has feeling and fears. To h ave an abortion it will destroy an innocent

life which is directly connected to murder.