abortion
... In any case if the timing is wrong or the situation, she will always have three choices, adoption, abortion, or to keep the child. The main two the people talk about are becoming mothers and having an abortion. ... Some people, like the pro-choice group, favor abortion as a decision, but groups like the antiabortionists think that there is always a better determination. Abortion is a very controversial subject that is discussed all the time and I for once am against it, but for someone to decide for himself or herself they must evaluate every aspect of the decision. ... ” (83) Abortion is often compared to the Holocaust. ... Now days the same thing is taking place in abortion clinics. ... (Cook 130) Willke brought up the concept of the “Human Holocaust” and the fact that the number of the dead combined on all the wars does not compare to the number of deaths with abortion. ... They showed a film footage of abortions where the fetus would move away from the abortion tools and they called this a “silent scream,” says Felicia. ... (46) Gallagher argues that choosing abortion robs women of the experience of childbirth and mothering and in the process snuffs the lives of their innocent babies. (Cozic 33) Having an abortion can cause psychological problems. ... ” (Lowenstein 80) Even after waiting a while after he abortion to have a child, the memories of her abortion followed her. ... ” (72) Jennifer didn’t have an abortion. ... ” (Day 81) Glenn has very strong feelings when it comes to abortion. ... (Cook 127) Louise feels that abortion is “a dead end” for the baby and for the woman. ... ” (128-129) Glenn sees abortion as if you were aborting Christ. ... (129) Studies have shown that when you bring in the idea of contraception you promote abortion. There are many women who get pregnant while they’re on the pill, or while they’re using condoms, and those are the very women that often times use abortion as a backup to a contraceptive method. ... ” (154) Some state that an abortion is just like removing a wart. ... ” My belief on the wrongness of abortion is justified by the bible just like Carolyn and Enoch when they quote from Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you and before you were born I consecrated you, I appointed you a prophet to the nations. ... Pro-choice groups state that an abortion is one of the safest medical procedures available, and is safer than giving birth. ... The ones with the abortion graduated and went to college and get jobs while the ones with kids struggle to keep going to school and later it’s hard to find a good job. ... Jocelyn, a student struggling for a scholarship to Northwestern, stated after an abortion, “I went home to sleep, got up the next day and went to class like nothing had happened. ... ” (90) Jocelyn isn’t the only one that felt abortion was the right thing to do. “I’m really glad I did it,” says Allison, who had an abortion when she was 16. ... (Meier 48) Gail, a health counselor, emphasizes that choice means that women have the choice not to have an abortion as well as to have one. ... ” During an abortion the fetus does not feel any sort of pain. ... (92-93) A counselor in a Planned Parenthood defends herself when accused of talking women into having an abortion. ... ” (95) Many pro-choice criticize the anti-abortion film The Silent Scream- showing buckets of stillborn fetuses up to six months old - as misleading, stating that fetuses that advanced in development would not be likely legal abortion candidates in the United States. ... Complications from abortions were the single largest killer of women of childbearing age when abortion was illegal from 1860-1973. (55) Making abortion illegal will just cause women to find an illegal way to obtain an abortion and put themselves in danger of a disease or death. ... (Granfield 44) The Jewish believe that no reason where the child is a result of rape, its defectiveness or illegitimate, incest or adultery is okay for abortion except if the mother is in great danger. ... (Lowenstein 26) In ancient Assyria, the punishment for abortion was the same as for murder, this however didn’t stop many. Aristotle said abortion could be used for population control. ... In the 1700’s some women used rotten rye and wheat to induce abortion and sometimes parsley containing a chemical called apiol to cause an abortion. In 1800’s some women drank poison to have an abortion but most poisoned themselves, and in the last half of the 1800’s surgery was starting to be used. ... (4) The Pope then categorically condemned abortion, sterilization, and “every action which…proposes…to render precreation impossible. ... The Catholic religion has been the one to, since ealy in time, has had somethine to say towards abortion and the sin people comit when abortion is used.