Abortion is the act of killing a fetus before it can be born. It can legally be done up to 22 weeks into the pregnancy. This is the government’s decision of when life truly starts in the womb. Most people’s grief with abortion arises over this issue of declaring when that cluster of cells is considered a human. Many people believe that life begins at conception. As soon as that egg and sperm combine, you have an innocent

For me, personally, I could not abort a baby of mine, unless my wife’s life was in jeopardy. For the populace at large, I think that people should be able to have abortions carried out. However, I feel the government should set a limit on the number or abortions a person can have. Abortions should never be used as a form of birth control. Abortions should be used as a preventive procedure to save a woman’s life placed in jeopardy by her baby. If people are old enough to have sex, then they should be old enough to deal with the consequences of that sex.

Clearly the major issue with abortion is the idea of choosing one life over another. Most people hold life to be precious, but we also hold our freedom of choice to be precious. So which is more important, the mother’s choice or the babies life? What if the situation came down to having to choose between two lives, the mother’s or the baby’s? How can we make that decision? We are not omniscient, it is not our job, or right, to choose who lives and who dies. Some people feel that doctors are playing god every day in this country.

life that must be protected. It has the possibility to become human therefore it must be protected. However, no one thinks we should protect the sperm or egg, even though they both have an equal chance of becoming a human. It’s in

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