father?s and mother?s genes at conception give us the traits we will possess in the future ? we become individual bodies with souls.3. It is a woman?s choice. It has already been discussed that a fetus is a living child, and children have the same basic rights as adults, do they not? Of course everyone has the right over his or her own body. When a woman wants an abortion it is usually done for convenience, not to benefit the child. Killing the unborn baby will not help it in any possible way. Something is seriously wrong with our society today. Almost everyone would see it as wrong to torture a seven year-old child and then brutally kill him or her, but a number of people including our government allow and even promote the torture and killing of an innocent unborn baby. How can some people think abortion is respectable?Secondly, why is it just ?the woman?s choice,? should the father not have some say in the process? She, the mother, certainly does have the right to control her own body, but the fetus is not her body, it is the body of the living soul inside her. Half of the living soul belongs to the father, and if he decides he wants to raise the child, courts should take that into consideration. 4. Abortion is a moral and Constitutional right. But killing is not! What is the legal definition of murder? First, the action has to be premeditated. The abortion procedure is usually planned out. The patient, doctor(s), and nurses know exactly what is going to happen and when it is going to happen. I would consider the process to be well planned. Secondly, the action has to be deliberate. When a woman goes to an abortion clinic, she does not intend on saving the baby?s life. The doctor knowingly, willingly and immorally ends the life of the child. Lastly, the action has to be done with malice. Killing the life of a living being is about as evil and immoral as any other action. A doctor who aborts a child is clearly and ...
