Abortion

Two articles show the different sides of abortion, "Abortion" by Kelley L. Ross. (http://www.friesian.com/abortion.html) and "Study shows U.S. Abortion Rights in Trouble" (http://www.reproductiverights.org/pri_abortion.html). There are a lot of individuals who may favor the concerned topic while there may be those who strongly condemn the abortion phenomenon. There are some arguments dealing with abortion that are very convincing. An abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. This can occur spontaneously or accidentally as with a miscarriage, or be induced by medical, surgical, or other means at any point during human pregnancy for therapeutic or elective reasons. Approximately 46 million abortions are performed worldwide every year.

The developing embryo is genetically different from the mothers as well as from the sperm and egg that produced it. A human being has 46 chromosomes sometimes 47 chromosomes. Sperm and egg have 23 chromosomes. A geneticist can distinguish between the DNA of an embryo and that of a sperm and egg. They can also distinguish between the DNA of a developing embryo and a full-grown human being. So in this case when you have an abortion there is no life in the child.

Another medical argument against abortion can be surrounded by the definition of life and death. The question which can be asked is what is death? Death is the end of life of a biological organism. Doctors now used brain wave activity to determine death. Individual brain waves are detected in the fetus in about 40-43 days. If they would use brain wave activity to define life it would outlaw at least a majority of abortions. Medical

science leads to a pro-life perspective rather than a pro-choice perspective, which is what Congress uses - pro-choice perspective. Medical arguments provide a strong case against abortion and for life.

I believe the best legal argument against abortion can be seen in the case of Roe v. Wade in 1973. It violated standard legal reasoning. According to the Roe decision, most laws against abortion in the United States violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision overturned all state and federal laws that protected the unborn and has resulted in over 30 million abortions in the United States. Other pro-life supporters argue that, in the absence of definite knowledge of when life begins, it is best to avoid the risk of doing harm.

The Supreme Court clearly stated that it does not know when life begins and then violated the very legal principle by acting as if it just proved that no life existed in the womb. Just as there are solid medical arguments against abortion,