s who make arguments such as that should never have had the right to have the components that make a child. Children with difficulties often teach everyone around them a better way to live. In Burtchaells Book, he relates a letter that was written to him by a women in Detroit:...we cannot emphasize too strongly the evil of destroying an unborn child who may be deformed. I can give personal witness to the fact that such unborn sick children do want to live. I am a Marfans Syndrome and Spina Bifida person, happy that my parents loved me enough 56 years ago to give me my right to live...I would still want to live if I had been a more severe case. When I did volunteer work in a local nursing home, I was struck by the cheerfulness and the will to live of the patients there, all poor, many black, whom many would say Baumann 11should never have been born -- how un-Christian and hard-of-heart we as a nation are. (xii)Abortion is wrong. If abortion is not wrong, then nothing is(Abortion). Abortion is morally and ethically wrong. There are no, in my opinion, sound arguments for killing an unborn child. Let me emphasize the word KILLING! Roleff restates in his book, Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints, what the Pope John Paul II said:The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved. The one eliminated is a human being at the very beginning if life...He or she is weak, defenseless, even to the point of lacking the minimal form of defense consisting in the poignant power of a newborns babys cries and tears. The unborn child is totally entrusted to the protection and care of the women carrying him or her in the womb.(18)6 The unborn child completely trusts the mother to take car of him or her and the mother takes it in her own responsibility to destroy that trust and destroy her baby. I feel sorry for a mother who is going ...
