Persuasive Essay On Abortion

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Yakira Sexton

English 3

8/8/2016

Women’s Right to Abortion

Even though Killing human life is wrong, abortion should be allowed because some people can't afford a baby and women should have the freedom to choose abortion. Some people have said that allowing women to get an abortion is like “unlawful killing of a human being” ( Kristi Burton Brown). While others have said that “a fetus is like a brain dead person with no self awareness or consciousness so it is actually dead”(News24). The side that I have chosen is that women should have the right to decide if abortion is the best thing for them or not.

“Abortion is about allowing women the right to make choices about when they want to have children in relation to their age, financial stability & relationship stability(News24).” This is a strong quote that I agree with, abortion should be about letting women and teens and what seems like kids these days have the right to make the decision of abortion or no abortion. Say that you had a child that was special needs and and that child was rapped and was expecting a baby and you had a tight financial
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N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2005. Bob Englehart's 1981 political cartoon - When Does Life Begin? - originally published by The Hartford Courant

This is a wonderful cartoon. What this cartoon is trying to say is that no one really knows when a baby starts knowing what life is. It's not right to say that it's wrong to get an abortion because the baby is alive. At the end of the third paragraph the quote said that it has been scientifically proven that a fetus is not alive. Yet scientist are not quite sure the truth of the matter. It is more dead than at a unborn baby at three months that’s for sure. As people we can't judge and say when or went not a life enters a baby.

"Uterus Rising Diagram." - JustMommies Message Boards. VBSEO, n.d. Web. 08 Aug.

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