Rust 1Starla RustMrs. FeinsteinEnglish 38 October 2014Make Abortion a CrimeThe statistics say that on average about 1.4 million babies are aborted per year.Abortion is not the end of a pregnancy it is the end of a person's life. There are three points we wish to make about a human embryo. First, it is from the start distinct from any cell of the mother or of the father. This is clear because it is growing in its own distinct direction. Its growth is internally directed to its own survival and maturation. Second, the embryo is human: it has the genetic makeup characteristic of human beings. Third, and most importantly, the embryo is a complete or wh ...view middle of the document...
George, JD, DPhil Patrick Lee, PhD).Abortion not only harms the baby it also harms the mother. A peer-reviewed 2005 study published in BMC Medicine found that women who underwent an abortion had "significantly higher" anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale up to five years after the pregnancy termination (Anne Nordal Broen et al., "The Course of Mental Health after Miscarriage and Induced Abortion: A Longitudinal, Five-Year Follow-up Study," BMC (BioMed Central) Medicine, Dec. 12, 2005). A 2002 peer-reviewed study published by the Southern Medical Journal of more than 173,000 American women found that women who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term. (David. C. Reardon, PhD, et al., "Deaths Associated with Pregnancy Outcome: A Record Linkage Study of Low Income Women," Southern Medical Journal, Aug. 2002.) A 2013 Chinese study published in the peer-reviewed Indian Journal of Cancer found an association between breast cancer and a history of abortionsAbortion harms not only the mother and baby, but it harms society as well. The aborted child could have done tremendous good for the world. 41 years ago on January, 22, 1973 abortion was made legal on that day all of the child's rights were taken and thrown out the window, the right to live and to breath was taken away from them.Choose murder? Can't follow all of the logic? Perhaps that's because it's illogical. Abortion is not a matter of politics. It's a matter of life and death, for 55 million and counting. Enough." (Oct. 8, 2013 - Mark Driscoll, MA).