Abortion Should Be Outlawed

Abortion Should Be Outlawed

Attention Getter: America formally declared its independence from Great Britain on July 4th 1776. As the founding fathers severed ties with the old country and denounced tyrannical despotism, they catalogued several truths that they held to be "self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" (Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence). Over two hundred years later, at least one of these truths ceases to be "self-evident" as Federal Law currently does not agree that all individuals are endowed with a right to Life. Semantic dances are erected to devalue the life of a human embryo, so that it is reduced to simple cells or tissues unworthy of rights. Rather than referring to the unborn child, we now designate such an individual as a fetus that is a more technical, "less human" term that makes people more comfortable and removed from the dirty details of abortion (Robb). Similar tactics were used by the Nazis in defense of Jewish extermination and even by American supporters of slavery in the 19th century.

No matter what you call it or how you spin it, abortion is "the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus" (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary). Abortion is not an unalienable or self-evident right. Abortion is the practice of killing the very weakest and most defenseless beings among us, and tragically, it has been accepted and supported within our culture. As a civilized nation, America has stepped back over two thousand years to a time when the destruction of unwanted children was permissible in Rome. No human should have the right to choose whether someone lives or dies. Thesis Statement: Abortion is essentially legalized murder, and it should be outlawed and prohibited under any circumstances.

Topic Sentence 1: In the past thirty years, casualties of unborn children have reached heights of over 6 times the number of lives lost during the holocaust. Since the Supreme Court passed the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, nearly 40 million abortions have been committed in the United States alone (Robb). That is almost a third of the entire number of babies that have been born during this time. If you go to a high school or college graduation ceremony this year, consider that one third of the graduating class is missing, because they have been aborted. These individuals were deprived of the rights to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness written about by our founding Fathers. Americans are shocked when they read about the human sacrifices of ancient cultures, or modern human atrocities being committed throughout the world on a daily basis. And yet, our unborn children are routinely sacrificed on the altars of privacy, choice, and convenience. America is currently in the throes of its own holocaust, and sadly the victims are largely underrepresented and unspoken for. Fancy legal jargon and stilted scientific language do not hide the fact that millions of babies are being killed. While the abortion issue is debated in the highest courts in the world, more and more lives quietly slip away.

Topic Sentence 2: Multitudes of people in our society have been duped into believing that they benefit from abortion laws. They have been convinced by endless propaganda that the practice of unrestricted abortion is good and that it should be protected at all costs (McKenna). This extreme view originates from radical feminists and liberals who argue that women should be afforded the right to kill their unborn babies if they choose. People have failed to realize that if there is a choice to be made, it should be made before the conception of a child. After a child has been conceived, it is too late to make decisions about pregnancy. Once a living individual has been created, no man should have the right to destroy that life before it has even had a chance to be born. Abortion laws do not protect the rights of women. Abortion laws permit the lawful destruction of innocent life (McKenna). America polices the world under the guise of human rights while annually committing more abortions than any other country in the world. It is time that people understand abortion is not a right or a privilege that needs to be protected by laws. Abortion is a heinous and barbaric practice that needs to be eradicated.