Anti-Abortion \"Any Country That Accepts

Anti-Abortion

"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion." Mother Teresa

The issues relating to abortion and pro-life hold moral ramifications and just as important the damage it does to the body of the female having the abortion. There are other reasons for not having an abortion including human emotions, psychological state, and medical aspects. Is it worth destroying not only the life of one child but possibly ruining the chance to ever give birth? I argue the risks and the after effects caused by abortions are just as wrong as the abortion itself. One has to wonder if morals even exist anymore.

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As an adopted child, I can relate to the issue of anti-abortion from a personal level, "that could have been me." I intend to demonstrate the reasons for being pro-life form the aspects of moral ethics and especially in the terms of the lasting after effects. Abortions can play on the physical and emotional states of the woman long after the procedure is done. Lifestyle.iloveindia.com (2010) in the web article, "Reasons against Abortion," reports the following reasons:

Abortion is considered strictly against the ethics of a civil society, as it is akin to murder. It punishes the innocent inborn child, by taking away its right to live.

The visible complications arising from abortion are recurrent miscarriages, premature or still births, blocked fallopian tubes and weakened cervix. It can even weaken a woman's reproductive system.

Abortion may lessen the chances of a woman conceiving easily in the future.

Abortion is considered to be one of the reasons for increased cases of breast, uterine and cervical cancer in women.

A woman may incur stress-related problems after undergoing an abortion. Apart from that, she may also fall prey to depression, if she suffers from the guilt of killing her unborn child.

Any one of these should be compelling enough to make a person stop and think about what they are doing.

An embryo is a living, breathing, and growing life form. To say that it is not alive or a human being is wrong. A child is not an adult but a growing human being that will turn out to be an adult. An embryo is growing inside the mother to be the child. Sarah Brown was born severely disabled due to a failed abortion. A loving family adopted Sarah and even though she could not see, talk, or walk; raised her in their home. She loved music, turning her head to the sound and she loved people. She changed the lives of the family and brought a lot of joy. Sarah died at 5 years old from complications due to the late term abortion attempt (Wichita Eagle, 1998). Many parents are out there that do not have or cannot have children. They would love to adopt a child but the waiting list is extremely long.

Abortions, in addition to being moral and religious wrong, are wrong for the damage that they can cause the woman physically and the emotional scars. Emotionally at the time of the abortion, the feeling may be of relief from the unwanted child but later the feelings can change to depression or guilt. In later life, the abortion can haunt the person especially if she has more children and she has to think about the one she aborted. The feelings are there regarding would my child have had a brother or a sister. Ask any woman who has lost a child during or after childbirth and they will tell you. YOU NEVER FORGET.

A woman considering abortion should take a good long look at the medical complications that can be faced by an abortion. They can affect the health of a woman at the time of the abortion as well as later in life. Buzzle.com (2010) in the article, "Anti-abortion arguments - Reasons against abortion," lists the following medical complications that can occur from the abortion:

Blocked fallopian tubes

Weakened cervix uterine scarring damage to the woman's reproductive system which may make her unable to conceive in the future face the increase in the probability of an increase in tubal babies hysterectomies miscarriages

stillbirths premature births

Are these worth the risk? Later when the woman is ready to start a family, the possibility is there that she may not be able to. This will play a big part on her emotional state from not being able to conceive and knowing the reason she cannot conceive. Also affected is her mate, who has to deal with not being able to reproduce. Will the marriage be able to survive? Who knows?