Abortion And My Own Thoughts

Title	Abortion And My Own Thoughts
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Abortion and My Own Thoughts

Abortion and My Own Thoughts

John Harvell
English 110U
February 12, 1997

     What would it be like to die so young and so fragile?  What would it be
like to kill something so young and so fragile?  Abortion, in my definition, is
the taking of a life.  Now it is hard for me to sit here and type this paper
when I know good and well that if my daughter or wife were ever raped I would
want whatever was inside of them out -- immediately.  I think that to take the
life of an unborn just because the couple involved were too lazy to use
contraceptives, is immature and quite horrid.  In this informative paper, you as
a reader will come to understand the facts on abortion and then understand where
I stand.
     Let us begin.  According to US Abortion data provided in 1995 by Planned
Parenthood, there were 1.8 million first trimester abortions, 180 thousand
second trimester abortions, and about four thousand required Hysterotomies.  Now
according to these figures we, as the United States, killed/aborted 1,984,000
fetus'.  Sure we could keep down the increase in our population at this rate,
but where would we be emotionally?  Speaking from a “my” point of view, I
wouldn't get to far.  I enjoy children profusely and thinking that there are 1.9
million children less in the world every year sends shivers down my spine.  But
I guess you may say that it is not my place to speak.
     There are fewer deaths per million abortions than per million births
according to the Planned Parenthood survey of 1995.  There are nine deaths per
million abortion procedures and sixty-three deaths per million births.  Both
complications and the death rate rise with the age of the fetus.  I can
understand that these facts portray a much better picture for abortion than
carrying to term, but what about the pain that the fetus will feel?   According
to pro-choice physicians they believe that a certain connection, synaptic,
necessary to perceive pain, for the fetus, is not formed until the twenty-eighth
week of pregnancy.  Others who are pro-life believe that the fetus can feel pain
as early as the seventh week.  But even though these facts by Planned Parenthood
show a better side to abortion as well, nothing can compare to the guilt of the “
Post-traumatic abortion syndrome” right?  Wrong.
     According to Dr. Paul Sachdef, professor of social work at Memorial
University in Newfoundland, Canada, long term guilt or depression was rare in
the seventy in-depth interviews that he conducted of women ages ei...

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