Keep Your Laws Off My Body, Pro-choice vs. Pro-life

Our society has determined that murder is an infringement on another’s inalienable rights so it supersedes our right to choose to kill. Pro-life activists believe abortion is murder and since an unborn baby can not speak for themselves they must take up the cause. Pro-choice activists believe that women should be allowed to do with their bodies as they wish.

Before this debate can continue, abortion must be defined. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines abortion as: the termination of pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely

followed by the death of the embryo or fetus a: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first twelve weeks of gestation.

Morals and ethics are passed to us from are parents, peers, and religious beliefs. Abortion is a moral and ethical issue we must deal with, but morals and ethics can not be legislated. To this end I once again say, keep your laws off my body.

What makes pro-life activists judge that abortion is murder? First of all, abortion is the "termination of pregnancy". Stopping the women's pregnancy means to destroy the embryo or the fetus. To the anti-abortionists, this is the same as slaughtering a baby. They believe the fetus is a separate life force. The problem with this argument is when do we call a fetus a person? From the religious perspective, a baby is already a person from the start of the conception. There are others

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