When Life Really Begins

Life begins one the sperm and egg meet.  A new cell is formed and that is where all human life begins.  From that moment of conception, a human being begins to grow and it already has its own individual set of DNA that belongs to it only.  The child's gender is already determined by this time.  By the end of the first month, the baby has a functioning brain, eyes, ears, mouth, kidneys, liver, an umbilical cord and fully working heart.  The fetus is a quarter if an inch, and is clearly looking like a human being.

By the second month, fingers and toes are fully formed.  The eyes have become further developed and the ears have begun to pick up sounds and vibrations.  The body is only made if cartilage at this stage, but the baby is starting to make spontaneous movements.   

Even at this small stage, don't tell me that this isn't a human being.

Soon after, the baby is able to hear outside noises and can has the ability to suck its thumb.  The fetus is about 1 pount and 7 inches long, and is completely distinctable.  By the fifth month, the mother is able to feel the baby kick and move around inside her. 

The Choice to save just you, or both of you

For people who are pro-choice, their main argument is that women have the rights to do with their body whatever they want to do.  I won't deny how true that sounds.  Women should have control over what they do with their bpdies.  If this is true though, then shouldn't women have the control to prevent an unwanted pregnancy?  Every woman has the choice to use contraception or stay abstinent.  That is their choice right there.  Women should take the right precautions and make the right choices before they find themselves in a mess.  Making the choice to murder a baby or not should not be one of the options on the list of decisions a woman has to make.  As bad as this sounds, if the pregnancy is seen as a consequence and nuisance, the woman should go through with it anyway because she aslready had the choice to prevent it.

As well as the baby's life being put in danger, the woman who decides to receive an abortion is putting her own life at stake in many ways.  The woman can suffer alot from psychological disorders.  Depression and anxiety have been brought upon by the guilt and pain from regretting what they have done to their unborn child.  The thought of losing a piece of them and killing a human being for their own selfish reasons is something hard to cope with after the fact of committing the abortion.  Abortion can also cause many physical ailments.  It has been proved that many women have gotten breast cancer from receieving an abortion.  The abortion messes with the pregancy process and the hormones that are produced during the pre-birth process.  There have also been many cases when a women has become paralyzed due to the complications during the procedure.  If the uteran wall is knicked or any of the reproductive organs are damaged, the woman can be permanently paralyzed or even killed from it.  In these cases, two lives are lost instead of just one.

Stating the Statitics

My younger brother who is only 15, a sophomore in highschool, came home the other day and started telling me about a girl he used to go to elementary school with.  He had said she had already had her second abortion, and she is only 15 years old as well.  I honestly didn't even know how to respond.  She had an abortion her freshman year of highschool and now just a year later.  I have always thought abortion in the first place was just appalling, but hearing that someone this young has had not just one, but two, has really blown me out of the water. 

Looking at the statistics of abortion, everything sort of bothered me, but a few statistics stuck out greatly to me. I had found that about 22% of all abortions happens to teens under the age of 20.  That's like children killing children, which absolutely sounds awful to me. Even though Catholics are trying so hard to fight abortion, Catholic women account for over 30% of the women who have abortions each year.  What I find shocking is that 93% of abortions are made for social reasons.  The other small percentages are because of rape and incest, and because of serious health problems occurring to the mother becasue of the pregnancy.  To me, its crazy how many women in our own country are willing to kill off their own child for the sake of their social life.  I have always thought that bearing the grief and guilt of killing your child is a million times worse than carrying a child for 9 months and feeling embarrassed by that for the shorter period of time. 
The last statistic that really scared me was that there are over 3,700 abortions per day.  Per day... All over our country every day, close to 4,000 murders are happening everwhere and no one even gives that a second thought that this is murder of children.
Seeing these statistics have really shocked me, and I wish only for numbers like these to go down with time.