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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [An editorial essay for ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [the illegalization of ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [abortion. ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 07/94 # of Words:1,060 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Many have pondered upon the meaning of abortion. The argument being
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that every child born should be wanted, and others who believe that every
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child conceived should be born (Sass vii). This has been a controversial
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topic for years. Many people want to be able to decide the destiny of
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others. Everyone in the United States is covered under the United States
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constitution, and under the 14th Amendment women have been given the choice
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of abortion. In 1973, Harry A. Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that
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it's a women's right to have an abortion. Roe v. Wade legalized abortion.
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Even though these people have been given the right, the case is not closed.
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Pro-life activists carry a strong argument, and continue to push their
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beliefs. They feel so strongly about these beliefs that violence has
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broken out in some known instances. Pro-choice activists, on the other
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hand, also carry very strong points. They believe that the child inside
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them is their property and it's life doesn't be until birth. In 1973, the
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United States Supreme Court decided that as long as the baby lived in the
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womb, he or she would be the property of the mother. Because of this
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decision almost every third baby conceived in America is killed by
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abortion, over one and a half million babies a year (Willke vii). Many
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countries have followed our decision on the abortion issue and some of
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these include Canada, England, and France. Other countries still believe
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abortion should be illegal, they include Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand.
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Although many believe that abortion is a women's choice, abortion should be
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banned because its immoral and life begins at conception.
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Abortion is the choice of a women whether or not she want's to receive
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one. Under the 14th Amendment's "personal liberty" women are given the
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right to receive an abortion. The 14th Amendment's concept of "personal
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liberty" and restrictions on state action is enough to allow a women's
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decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The right to choose to
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have an abortion is so personal and essential to women's lives that without
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this right women cannot exercise other fundamental rights and liberties
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guaranteed by the Constitution (Paltrow 72). The state can't interfere in
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the private lives of a citizen. Without the right to choose an abortion
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the 14th Amendment's guarantee of liberty has little meaning for women.
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With the right to choose abortion, women are able to enjoy, like men, the
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rights to fully use the powers of their minds and bodies (Paltrow 73). A
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man can withdraw from a relationship as soon as he finds out about a
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pregnancy. There is no question of his involve t after that, he has made
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his choice. It is only fair to say that women should be given the same
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choice. If one doesn't want to hold the responsibilities of a child than
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she should be able to have the choice of abortion in her options. " Because
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contraceptives fail, and because they are not always available or possible
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to use, abortion is necessary if people are to be able to determine whether
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and when to "bear or beget a child"(Paltrow 72). Couples choose the
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alternative of abortion so they can start or expand their families when
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they feel most ready and able to care for them. Women choose to have an
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abortion because pregnancy and childbirth can prevent them from keeping
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their jobs, from feeding their families, and from serving others in ways
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they consider necessary and appropriate. Pregnancy and child birth may
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determine whether a women ever gets to start or complete her education,
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which will significantly influence her ability to support herself and her
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family. The availabilit y of abortion makes it possible for people not
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only to choose the number of children they want, but also to create the
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kind of family life they have always wanted for themselves, to meet their
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responsibilities. If a women cannot choose to terminate an unwanted
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pregnancy, she is denied the right to the "possession and control" of her
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own body. One of the most sacred rights of common law is to choose and if
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a women can't do this than their most important possession is taken away.
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Abortion isn't only a women's right, it's a women's choice.
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However, allowing abortion to be legal is immoral. A pre-born child is
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given the status of a "product of pregnancy" and never seen as the miracle
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only a women can create. Compassion for the small one is drowned out under
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a demand for "rights", but what about the rights for the unborn. "A women
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has a right to her own body" is an idea more and more women are realizing,
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but that idea ignores the unborn child's right to his or her body. Never,
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in modern times, has the state granted to one citizen the right to have
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another killed in order to solve their personal, social, or economic
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problems. the embryo is its own being that should have it's own rights to
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protect it. The zygote is a unique genetic being (Zindler 27). If one was
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to abort an embryo than that embryo, that human life would never be
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duplicated. A scientist that may have found the cure to A.I.D.S. would be
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killed. There is a better way to solve our problems than by killing
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children. A fertilized egg is the most beauti , most innocent being that we
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could ever create, and can redeem even the worst of our mistakes. This
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fertilized egg is not just a mass of tissue, for if it were than there
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would be no debate. A fetus feels pain. Ultra sound, fetoscopy, study of
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the fetal EKG (electrocardiogram) and fetal EEG (electroencephalogram) have
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demonstrated the remarkable responsiveness of the human fetus to pain,
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touch and sound (willke 64). The fetus responds to light, heat, cold, and
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taste. Observations of the fetal movements in saline abortions indicates
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that the fetus experiences discomfort as it dies. One doctor who, the New
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York Times, wrote "conscientiously performs" saline abortions stated, "when
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he injected the saline, he often saw an increase in fetal movements"
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(Willke 64). In another case, a film using mew sonographic techniques,
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shows the outline of the child in the womb thrashing to resist the suction
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device before it tears off the head. Then you see the dead child
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dismembered child and t he head crushed (Edwards 40). This is murder.
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Nobody who sees this film will speak again of "painless" abortion. After
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the doctor who performed this procedure saw this film, he never performed
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another abortion again. But, many doctors still do perform abortion, and
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in some instances a live child is killed. "About once a day, somewhere in
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the United States, something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live
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baby" (Willke 76). Forty five out of six hundred and seven mid trimester
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abortions done in Connecticut in 1974-1976 resulted in live births (Willke
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76). In these cases the child was killed in cold blooded murder. It is
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immoral to kill, therefore abortion is immoral.
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Finally, abortion should be banned because life begins at conception.
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The individual sex cell consists of 23 chromosomes. It is only through
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combination, however, that the sex cells contain the full complement of
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heredity units that defines a human being (Shettles 17). This procedure of
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combination defines conception. After the merger of the two sex cells 46
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chromosomes are present. This is what makes a human being. The merger is
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complete within twelve hours, at which time the egg is fertilized and
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becomes known technically as the "zygote". The inherited characteristics
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of a unique human being has been established, and in no circumstances will
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it change (Shettles 17). Nothing from this time on, until death, will
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anything be added. The definition of alive is that a being is growing,
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developing, maturing, and replacing its own dying cells. It means not being
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dead. At the very time conception begins the zygote is growing,
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developing, maturing, and replacing its own dying cel It's alive. The
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single-celled fertilized ovum cannot by any stretch of the imagination be
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considered part of a women's body. This new living being has a genetic set
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up unlike anyone else's, totally different from the cells of the mother's
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body. It makes no difference to assume that human life is more human
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post-born than pre-born. What is critical to figure out is if it is or
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isn't human life, and of coarse it is human life. At 18 days the heart is
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pumping through a closed circulatory system, with blood whose type is
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different from that of the mother. At 40 days the brain begins to
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function. In the 16th week motion has been detected. At 6 and 1/2 weeks
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all twenty milk-teeth buds are present. During the eighth week the baby's
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stomach secretes gastric juice, and all it's body system is present. The
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baby dreams, thinks, and feels pain. This is definitely a child, and no
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one on the face of this earth would be here if they weren't conceived.
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In summary, abortion can be justified by a women's right to choose, but
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it should be banned because it's immoral and life begins at conception.
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Women have been given the right to have an abortion under the United States
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Constitution, but this right is still being protested by the people that
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fight for the unborn's rights. Pro-life activists claim that its immoral
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because it is simply defined as murder. Life begins at conception is
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another strong point brought up by pro-life activists. Before a child is
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born it is given all it's necessities to survive. Notice the operative
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word is before. Before birth the childs heart beats, the gastric juices
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flow in the stomach, and all its necessary organs have been made present.
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This is a child that thinks, dreams, and feels pain. Yes, some women may
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look at having an abortion to solve her personal problems, but in all,
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women are abandoning the abortion because it weakens their great strengths:
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creation, compassion and the ability to loo eneath the surface of
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appearance of things. Maybe soon the abortion issue will reverse, and
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people will see the rights of the unborn as greater importance than that of
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a personal right.
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