Abortion should not be legal, at all, in The United States of America In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as our civilization has aged, it seems that such acts are no longer acceptable by rational human beings. In 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical Association meeting in Geneva at the same time, stated that the utmost respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970. Should we go backwards in our concern for the life of an individual human being? The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. With all of this in mind I believe that abortion should be illegal. 1) It is determined at that very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or a girl; which of his parents he will look like, what blood type he will have. His whole heritage is forever fixed. Look at a human being 8 weeks after conception and you will be able to look at the fetus and tell me whether it is a baby boy or a girl. While some will argue that the baby is only a fetus, its not. Just as the Klan uses specific kinds of speech to dehumanize blacks, and the Nazis twisted speech to dehumanize Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded, et cetera, abortionist leaders bend over backwards to make the baby sound as non-human and irrelevant as possible. Taken from P.J.O'Rourke, Abortion: Right or wrong some things are trueA baby of 3 months is capable of tasting and feeling. Do you know that the fetus' heart started beating just 18 days after a new life was created, beating before the mother even knew she was pregnant? No, a fetus is not just another part of a woman's body like an appendix or appe...
