Aborotion
Submitted by lisade420 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Aborotion
Abortion is the termination of pregnancy before birth, resulting in, or accompanied by, the death of the fetus.
I believe that abortion should not be performed because it robs a human being of life. Abortion is also a form of murder, which God despises. Since January 1998 abortion was legalized in America, and since then over 35 million babies have been aborted. Long before birth, human babies are fully developed. Three weeks post conception the heart begins to beat. Within seven weeks brain waves can be detected, all vital organs are present and fingers and toes can be seen as the baby moves its feet and arms. At nine weeks, the baby can respond to touch and grasp an object, and at sixteen weeks it can hear and recognize its mothers voice.
The earliest method of abortion can be performed seven weeks post conception, after the heart begins to beat and at the same time that brain waves can be detected, vital organs are present and fingers and toes can be seen. This method is also the most common. In this procedure a suction tube is inserted into the womb and the baby is torn from the uterus along with the placenta and it is sucked into a canister. At this time, the baby's head is too large to be suctioned through the narrow tube so the doctor uses forceps to crush the baby's skull so that it too can pass through the tube.
Besides being very painful to the baby, abortions put mothers at risk for health complications or even death. Statistics show that one in every five hundred abortions results in the mother dying. It is also proven that only one percent of reported abortions are rape victims, ninety five percent are performed as a mean of birth control or unwanted pregnancy and the other four because of fetal abnormalities or the mother's health problems. They also show that one out of every three babies conceived are aborted. That is 1.5 million every year, forty one thousand each day, and one every 21 seconds.
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