abortion
"Abortion operations gone wrong on the next Maury Povich Show!" What? What is this I wondered to myself. I was about 11 years old when I saw this show and what horror it brought to my mind and heart is unexplainable. On the show were kids my age and younger with handicaps. Some were missing a leg or an arm. Some had brain damage or lung problems. What went wrong? The abortion did. The mothers of the children had gone in for an abortion and instead of killing the whole the fetus the doctor only took out some of the fetus. When the women found out they were still pregnant it was to late to have another abortion. How could a mother even consider killing her child? What was more important than life? These questions have rattled my mind for years. This show opened my heart and mind into the world of abortion.This show and many others like it got me interested in the topic of abortion by puzzling my mind with questions that could only be answered by my own opinions. Depending on how I was brought up and my morals, values, and how I thought decided what the answer to the question was for me. Did I think the killing of an unborn person was okay or did I think it was wrong? Did I think it was all right to deny an already
Later, I went to the library where I checked out 6 books and a video that I was psyched to watch. When I got home I watched the video and boy did it give me insight on my subject. It was about five totally different women who had all had abortions but because of different reasons. Some decided to become pro-life after their abortion while the others remained pro-choice. It had answered most of my questions of how women felt about abortion and why they would have one. Some reasons seemed stupid to me while others I understood why. The difficult moral question is different from the legal question of whether an embryo is a person. Since the Constitution as it stands does not currently protect embryos as persons (Merton 120). Because the abortion question is so difficult and may be approached in so many different ways, it should not be surprising that the approach taken by the United States Supreme Court causes continuous controversy. It would be foolish to think that any judicial approach to the question would not be controversial, because if it were every answer to the question would be wrong (Tribe 77) . Pain, sorrow, embarrassment, anger, regret, and shock are all emotions that come with the word abortion. Abortion is a very controversial subject that has everybody fighting over the question if it is right or wrong, and those it has fighting over it also have it thinking they know the right answer. Unfortunately no one really knows what the right answer to the question is. We can only speculate and reflect on the subject and from this make our own decisions as to whether we think it is right or wrong. The Reader's Digest Association Inc. ABC's of the Human Body. New York: The Reader's Digest Association Inc., 1987.
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