Planned Parenthood By Yehuda Berg

In a Huffington Post article about the power of words, Israeli author, Yehuda Berg, states that words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity (Berg). Unfortunately, over half a million people will never know the feeling of having such power. In 2012, there were 669,202 abortions in the United States. This is an injustice; abortion should be treated like murder, and should be illegal because it negatively affects society and excuse murder. Within a single moment, a gender is determined, a blood type is assigned, and physical characteristics are created; this single moment is conception. Human conception takes place when two haploid cells, an ovum (the female gamete) and a sperm (the male gamete), combine to form a diploid cell called the zygote. It takes 24-48 hours to complete this process (Pocock); however, per Planned Parenthood, it takes approximately 12-16 days to become pregnant and pregnancy only happens when the zygote is attached to the lining of the uterus (Planned Parenthood). The zygote is the first official form of life within a woman after sexual intercourse. By the fourth day, the baby is a ball of cells that have traveled through the Fallopian tubes and has settled in the uterus. The third week the baby has begun absorbing nutrients and oxygen through a primitive circulation system, and the placenta has begun to form. By the end of the month the baby has organs that beginning to develop. 6 weeks in, the baby has formed its sweet face and the hands and feet are to come in the following week. By the end of the first trimester the baby has fingerprints and is about the size of a hand (Baby Center). Even though there is a beating heart in the baby by the first month, some believe that the baby is not “really” a baby until the end of the first trimester, so it’s not “really” murder before the first trimester’s end; however, stopping a beating heart is murder. Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being without malice aforethought- a level of intent or recklessness (Gale). Abortion qualifies as murder based on the original definition, but as the centuries have progressed, the definition has evolved and other aspects have ensued; one of those aspects include the death of pregnant women. Under some legislation fetuses have been labeled as people, but some pro-choice advocates feel there will be a domino effect if the law protects a fetus. They believe that under fetal protection legislation, pro-life defenders will have a strong case in the dismissal of women’s ability to choose, resulting in the illegalization of abortion. Including Georgia, thirty-eight states have fetal homicide laws to protect and honor the unborn children that are incapable of doing so themselves in different circumstances. These three Georgia laws punish perpetrators for killing unborn children as though the perpetrators were killing adults. “Ga. Code Ann. § 16-5-80 defines feticide. A person commits the offense of feticide if he or she willfully kills an unborn child so far developed as to be ordinarily called “quick” by causing any injury to the mother of such child. The penalty for feticide is imprisonment for life. Ga. Code Ann. § 40-6-393.1 defines vehicular feticide and provides for penalties. Ga. Code Ann. § 52-7-12.3 defines the term “unborn child” to mean a member of the species Homo sapiens at any stage of development who is carried in the womb. The law defines …show more content…
The U.S. national debt is currently $19 trillion dollars and grossing, and the government provides Planned Parenthood with $528.4 million dollars, which does not include the $257.4 million dollars Planned Parenthood receives from private donors, the $305.3 million from non-government services, and the $54.7 million from other revenue sources (Ross). Although the money they receive from the government seems miniscule compared to the money spent on other government programs, $528.4 million dollars can be used to support school programs that are being cut or families of military troops or adoption agencies who need help providing homes for children. Money is important to companies like Planned Parenthood, but what should be important are the women’s physical and emotional