Is Aborition Morally Wrong

The question of whether abortion is morally right or wrong is one that has been around for quit sometime and there is no consensus about when abortion is appropriate. Because there is no clear cut answer to this topic fierce debates have been ignited, that has led to Supreme Court hearings, and that has in turn led to laws being put into place to try and to help appease both sides. This is not a topic that there will be a clear cut final decision on whether it is right or wrong, but it is a topic we will be faced with for years to come. I hope to help shed a little more insight on both sides of this topic in the following paragraphs.

The following are facts and reasons why abortion is morally wrong. First off, it is believed that an ovum, spermatozoa, a hair follicle, skin cell, etc. are all forms of human life and are all alive and contain DNA and therefore is considered human and need protection. An unborn child has enough of a right to life as any other person and women must recognize their responsibility for their own free actions. An unborn child cannot defend itself and it's the mother's duty to protect her child born or unborn. Secondly, a child of rape or incest is completely innocent of those acts and does not deserve to be killed because of the crime of its father. The mother is not responsible for these horrible actions, but that does not give her the right to terminate the life of another human being. Just because mothers and fathers have a right to raise their children they do not have a right to decide to murder it. Finally, some believe that abortions are never acceptable. It is better to let the woman and fetus die rather than save the woman's life by terminating the pregnancy. There was a bill before the Georgia legislature in 2002 to codify this point of view in law. It would criminalize all instances of "the intentional termination of human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus." Once a woman becomes pregnant, she would be forced to continue the pregnancy, unless she first initiates a lawsuit, wins a court battle, and thereby obtains the court's permission to seek an abortion. If this bill passes the Georgia legislature (a slight possibility) and is signed into law by the Governor (a very small possibility) and survives a constitutional challenge (a miniscule possibility) then the maternal death rate in Georgia would soar. Of course, the embryo and fetal death rate would drop. Even with all of these other points about the morality of abortion the one fact that remains is that murder is illegal under the federal law and the law of God and no one can legally take part in murder. Abortion is murder in the eyes of some, but for others it is a choice.

There are those however that feel differently about this issue and see it as a choice and it is acceptable under some unusual conditions. The first is perhaps when the pregnancy