Abortion
Abortion has been a long standing ethical issue debated around the world. It is an issue that evokes, on all sides, very strong feelings and judgements and very heated arguments. The most radical argumentsof the anti- abortion or "pro-life" side of the debate views abortion as the murder of unborn children, and is the equivalent of infanticide making the legal issue of abortion (since the case of Morganthaler) at a rate of 1.5 million a year in Canada into a justified murder of the innocent. There is no right or wrong side to be on, but the side that would have to be against abortion. It has been decided in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court that as long as the baby lives in the womb, he or she would be the property of the mother. Because of this decision almost every third baby in Canada is killed by abortion()()()(). Many countries have followed that decision and those countries are Canada, England and France. Abortion not only kills a fetus, but it kills the parents for knowing that they have taken a human life, and they will have to live with that for the rest of their lives. Although many believe that abortion is a woman's choice abortion should be banned because it is immoral and life begins at conception.
but the latest census taken by the Toronto Star in March of 1989 reports that 35% of those polled thought that abortion was already easy to obtain, 26% thought it too hard, 19% about right and 21% had no opinion. Men more then women thought it too hard.(Encarta) The right to choose to have an abortion is so personal and essential to women's lives that without this right women cannot exercise other fundamental rights and liberties. But abortion is still not justified. Not happy with "the Abortion Act of 1969 which allows 40,000 unborn children to be killed legally in our country in 1973" (Toronto Star), many people are campaigning for abortion on request. They are helped out by media which continues to print what they consider "the facts" when it is really the fiction of their imaginative minds. We have been told by the media that the majority of Canadians wish to have abortion legalized "Once a woman becomes pregnant, she already is a parent, whether she wants to be or not." (Harver 20) The only way she terminates it is by a natural death or an act of killing. Killing in any form is not the solution to get rid of an unwanted fetus. "Hitler thought this was right, the majority of Canadians don't." (Toronto Star) One of the most often repeated arguments is that abortion should be legal because it would continue being practiced even if it were illegal. The trouble with such reasoning is that it could just as easily give an
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