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Thesis Statement: Although courts have decided it is the woman`s choice, abortion is an arguably criminal violent and cruel act, because it silences an innocent voice. Auburn Hart Kurt Rowley Historical Research and Writing November 19, 2009 Abortion During month one your baby is an embryo which is two layers of cells from which all its organs and body parts will develop. Progressing to month two your baby is now about the size of a kidney bean and is moving constantly, your baby also has slightly separated webbed fingers. Now in month three your baby is about three inches long and weighs about an ounce. On their slightly developed hands they have unique fingerprints. Month four your baby is about five inches long and weighs about five ounces; their skeleton is starting to harden from cartilage to bone. Month five your baby is more than ten inches long with their legs stretched. Your baby also has eyebrows and eyelids. Six months along your baby weighs about a half pound, and its wrinkled skin is starting to smooth out as your tiny infant begins to gains weight. Seven months along you baby weighs about three pounds and when stretched out is about fifteen inches long. Your baby can also open and close their eyes. Eight months along your baby now weighs about four and a half pounds, their lungs are well developed and is still gaining weight. Now on the final month of your pregnancy, your baby should be about nineteen inches long and weigh about seven pounds, but babies vary in size at this stage. Although courts have decided it is the woman`s choice, abortion is arguably a criminal violent and cruel act, because it silences an innocent voice. In the earlier stages of a pregnancy suction aspiration or vacuum abortion is the most common way to have an abortion. There are two different types of suction aspiration manual vacuum aspiration and electric vacuum aspiration. Manual vacuum aspiration removes the fetus and the placenta using a syringe. Electric vacuum aspiration consists of an electric pump to remove the fetus and placenta. Suction aspiration is usually done in the first twelve weeks of the woman`s pregnancy. Later in a woman`s pregnancy usually between the twentieth and twenty third week they use an injection to stop the babies heart. This is done to make sure the baby is not born alive, this is another form of abortion. An abortion usually causes less pain than giving birth but more issues occur after an abortion. A woman puts her mental health at risk when having an abortion due to being emotionally attached to the baby, pre-existing mental illnesses, or having poor support from the people around her about her choices or just being pregnant. Although there has not been any scientific research done on the exact reasons a woman`s mental health is at risk, there are a variety of reasons. Reasons are different because not everybody shows their emotions the same way. “Some pro-choice advocates believe that an embryo or fetus is a “clump of cells” and does not deserve any rights.” (Page 17, Fetal Rights by Alan Marzilli) But others that are pro-life advocates believe that the fetus is an unborn child and believe it is demeaning to even call the unborn child a fetus. Also pro-life supporters believe that the unborn child should have the same rights as a born child, or a human being in that case. Just because the unborn child is not fully developed, and needs their mother to grow from does not mean it is not something that is living. When the unborn child`s heart starts beating it becomes a human being. It is alive from that point on. Some people, like pro-life supporters, believe that abortion is homicide (Page 52, Fetal Rights by Alan Marzilli). If a man were to use domestic violence on a woman while pregnant, and she was to lose the child, then the man in this case would be charged with homicide. Now, should a woman be able to chose the same ending for her child? A woman choosing to have an abortion is in someways the same thing as being abused and losing your child. So, in the act of an abortion a woman should be charged with homicide too, because the only difference it is not another person choosing this for the woman. Most pro-life supporters also believe that if you are responsible enough to have sexual intercourse then you should be responsible and care for any mistakes. Such as getting pregnant. Even if you feel as if you can not take care of the child, after the child is born put it up for adoption so someone else can take care of the baby. Adoption is a great alternative to abortion, it is not killing an innocent child and you could help a family who are not able to have children themselves. The only way an abortion is the right thing to do is when a woman is forced into sexual intercourse or in other words raped. This is the only way a woman should be able to legally have an abortion anywhere. The woman should be able to have an abortion in the case, because she did not chose to be involved in the act of sexual intercourse, she was forced making this pregnancy wrong.

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