Since the famous 1973 court case, Roe vs Wade, there have been over 50 million abortions in the United States alone.

In that number alone, there have been more potential lives lost than the United States, China, and Soviet Union lost in World War 2 combined.

Abortion is a growing problem worldwide and needs to be discontinued. It is murder. When someone kills a pregnant women, they are charged for a double homicide.

Since 1980, there have been over one billion abortions worldwide. Women in their twenties are responsible for over half the abortions worldwide. Abortion is not just a growing problem for adults, but it is a major growing problem for teenagers. 18% of all abortions occur with teenagers. According to Guttmacher Institute, 6% of abortions come from girls aged 15-17, ages 18-19 are responsible for 11%, and girls under age 15 are responsible for .4% of all abortions.

Life begins at fertilization, therefore making abortion murder.  Abortion should only be used and tolerated in the case of rape or the risk of the mother’s life. But only .97% of abortions occur due to rape and only .6% of rape leads to pregnancy.

Plus, there are many other ways to avoid pregnancy, including taking a pill the morning after.

Some may argue that making a women go through an unwanted pregnancy is 9 months of torture and agony, but that is much better than throwing away an entire life. The possibilities of those lives thrown away are endless, what if one of the human beings would have discovered the cure to cancer. That life would have been thrown away by the mother, and would affect millions of others.

Not only is abortion morally wrong, it can also be more dangerous than actually giving birth. Possible side effects of abortion include: heavy or persistent bleeding, infection or sepsis, damage to the cervix, scarring of the uterine lining, perforation of the uterus, damage to other organs, and in extreme cases, death.

And for all those people who have declared to be pro-choice, I pose an inquiry: where is the child’s choice? Does the infant get to choose between life or death?

Millions of potential lives are lost every year due to abortion. These potential lives have no choice between life and death. Regardless of what a fetal infant is capable or incapable of doing or thinking, they are still undeniably human. Does the transition of a person from age 5 to age 25 or even 55 somehow make them “more human?” I doubt anyone would declare this to be true, so why is an unborn child simply declared “less human” due to a terse age?

Cease to determine whether a life is worth living. Allow lives to be lived, as children are guilty of no crimes and have as much potential as all who are currently outside the womb.