to life. If abortion was illegal it would force poor women to bear and raise children they cant afford to bring up. There would be a number of abortions performed by people who shouldnt be performing them. It would also force victims of rape and incest to have the baby of their perpetrator. Pro-choicers believe that without abortion, the world would become over-populated. They argue that there already are enough starving children in the world and if abortion was made illegal there would be many more. An astonishing number of children are victims of abuse. Making abortion illegal would only make mothers have unwanted children who could add to the population of abused children. They also defend their beliefs with the argument that the mothers could go on welfare at the expense of taxpayers and cost them billions. Those who believe abortion should remain legal say that fetuses cannot feel pain and arent really alive until they are born (www.abortioninfo.com). Pro-lifers have a strong argument against abortion. Someone who is pro-life believes that a fetus has just as many rights as its mother. Abortion in the unnatural end of a pregnancy. That child has a right to life that is equal to the mothers rights. One cannot kill another human being just because they wished it wasnt around. Abortion is murder of the innocent being practiced on a national scale. A fetus is an actual person. His or her heart begins to beat between the eighteenth and twenty-fifth day after conception. Electrical brain waves have been recorded as early as forty days after conception. People often have the impression that an unborn child cannot feel pain when actually they can feel it during about 4/5 of the pregnancy (www.abortioninfo.com). If an abortion is painful for the mother, one cannot imagine what the baby feels. One half of all Americans think that abortion is murder (www.plannedparenthood.org). I am an only child. I have always wanted a...
