ABORTION SHOULD NOT BE LEGALIZED

Abortion is the worst thing a woman can do against human dignity. It is a crime
against life. No woman has the right to kill a new living being. Many countries
ban abortion and many institutions fight against it. Abortion is immoral and it
should not be legalized.
Abortion is also a threat to the mother's health. A woman can suffer an infectio
n or internal bleeding. She could also become sterilized, the permanent inhabili
ty to bear a child. Abortion not only kills the baby but may kill the mother too
. During an abortion, despite the use of local anesthesia, 97% of the women repo
rt severe pain, and if a more powerful drug is used she could suffer dangerous s
ide effects. Many complications are common after an abortion, like inflammation
of the reproductive organs. As well, there is strong evidence that abortion incr
eases the risk of breast cancer. Women that abort increase their chances of gett
ing breast cancer by 50%, and teenagers with no previous pregnancies that abort
after the 8th week increase their probability by 800%. Unicef states that 250,00
0 women die every year because of legal and illegal abortions: 75,000 of them di
e of self-inflicted abortions; 75,000 die of convulsions; and the other 100,000
die of blood poisoning caused by an infection of the uterus. Therefore, if abor
tion is legalized there will be not only more fetal murders but also more mother
s will die.
None of the methods women use to abort are completly safe. One of the most commo
n methods used is Suction Aspiration. The doctor uses a special tool to suck the
baby into a collection bottle. Great care must be taken to prevent the uterus f
rom being damaged, which would cause hemorrhage. A woman with hemorrhage will ne
ed a blood transfusion that could cause her AIDS. Also infection may easily occu
r if fetal tissue is left behind in the uterus. Another method used for babies a
s old as twenty four weeks, is the Dilation and Evacuation. Sharp jaws are used
to grasp different parts of the unborn baby which are then torn away. The skull
of the baby must be crushed to facilitate the procedure. Another technique used
by a lot of pregnant women is the RU486. The RU486 are pills used to abort the u
ndesired child. These pills have very dangerous side effects. They could cause s
evere bleeding, nausea, vomiting, pain, and even death. In France a woman died b
ecause of this drug while others suffered life threatning heart attacks. Also RU
486 can cause severe malformations in later pregnancies. Therefore the baby is n
ot the only one that is endangered.
The baby's mother not only has to deal with physical consequences, but also psyc
hological problems that could last for a lifetime. Women that abort usually suff
er severe traumas. Once, a woman was rapped by five men. She didn't want to hav
e the child, but her pain and embarrasment were so great that she couldn't abort
until the last month. She is still in psychological treatment. Psychologist Wa
nda Franz states, "Women feel worthless because they failed at the most natural
of human activities, the role of being a mother." Women report horrible nightmar
es of children calling them from a trash can full of body parts and blood. Surgi
cal abortions aren't as traumatic as chemical abortions. Women having chemical a
bortions often see the complete tiny bodies of their babies and are even able to
distinguish the developing hands and eyes. So traumatic is this for some future
mothers that it is recommended that women that are not prepared for this, do no
t take the drug. Researchers call these phychological problems the Post Abortion
Syndrome (PAS). Women that suffer from PAS experience drug and alcohol abuse, p
ersonal relationship problems, repeated abortions, and even suicide. Of all the
women that abort, 56% feel guilty and suffer PAS. In the United States there a
re over 3000 Pregnancy Crisis Centers which help women that are facing unplanne
d pregnancies. They make the future mothers realize that her baby deserves to ha
ve the chance of living. They tell them that if they can't support the baby then
 she could give it up for adoption but not kill him.
Do women have the right to steal the life of a new living being? Killing a perso
n is illegal, so why should a fetal murder be legal? You have to ask yourself th
ese questions and realize that when a woman aborts, she is acting like any other
murderer. Researchers have discovered that life begins at the moment of concept
ion in the mother's uterus, therefore abortion ends a human life and should be p
unishable by law. As well, nine short months of pregnancy is a small cost for a
life without physical and health problems,
think about it.