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on September 19, 2005 at 5:37:25 pm
 

Abortion is a very controversial issue in today’s society. The issue is whether abortion is considered murder. There are many reasons for why abortion is murder. Abortion is the expulsion of an embryo or fetus that is incapable of survival. In other words, the mother is taking the decision into her own hands to kill her unborn child. If in the United States of America, murder is the killing of another human, than why wouldn’t abortion be considered murder? Abortion is just another form of murder. Abortion is murder because it is the slaughtering of an unborn human.

Murder is considered to be the unlawful killing of one human by another. The mother is unlawfully killing her own unborn child. Murder is also defined as illegal killing with malice aforethought. With this statement, people argue that abortion is not illegal and that the mother does not feel malice for her unborn child. Meaning, she is not killing her child to see it suffer. It is not known for a fact that a mother does not feel malice. She could be killing her child to benefit in her own ways. She could be mentally unstable and want to see her own child suffer. Another person cannot decide whether she mother felt malice or not. Either way with feeling malice or not, it is not a good enough argument to show that abortion is murder. In addition, people making the counter arguments believe that the mother has the right to chose whether her unborn child should live or not. You could then continue to say that a mother could even kill her born child. Their argument is not clear enough, because it leads you to believe that a mother can chose if she wanted to kill her own child. There is no difference between an unborn and born child.

 

An unborn child would be considered a fetus or embryo while in the womb. A fetus is an unborn person in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of a mature person. If I may stress one part of this definition it would be the word person. A fetus is just an unborn person. The fetus is still considered a human being, but is not fully developed yet. Since murder is defined as the unlawful killing of one human by another, and a fetus is still considered a person, than abortion would be considered illegal. After stating these points, a person would argue that a fetus is not a human. In addition, since they believe a fetus is not a human, than it is not considered murder. There argument is not specific enough to convince that abortion is not murder, considering the fact that a fetus is an unborn child.

 

In addition to the previous counter arguments, people would claim that abortions are legal. Just because law states that abortion is legal, it does not mean that abortion is not murder. It has already been stated that abortion is considered murder. It would then make sense that since murder is illegal, than abortion would be considered illegal too. The United States does have laws, but it does not mean that these laws can or will never be changed. The argument that abortion is legal is not sufficient.

 

Once again, abortion is murder because it is the unlawful killing of one human by another. Counter arguments for this issue were that people argue that abortion is not illegal and that the mother does not feel malice for her unborn child. Abortion being illegal is a fact, but the comment about whether a mother feels malice or not for their unborn child is not a fact. People have different opinions, and a mother could feel malice for her child and wanting to abort it. In addition, others argue that it is not considered murder, because an embryo or a fetus is not considered a human. But the definition of a fetus is an unborn person in the later states of development showing the main recognizable features of a mature person. After this simple definition, their argument would be considered wrong. A fetus is a person, and abortion would be considered murder. The last counter argument is that since abortions are legal it is acceptable to kill an unborn child. I believe that my argument is the best, because abortion is considered murder, and murder is illegal. This topic is contradictory, because murder is illegal, than wouldn’t abortion be considered illegal also? After reviewing my points on why abortion is murder, I would expect that it is clearly understood why the counter arguments are not acceptable.

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