Abortion

This is pro-life, scroll down to see the other topics if this doesn't appeal.

Abortion: A termination of a pregnancy by removal of the fetus or embryo

1. A fetus is a human, therefor Abortion is MURDER/an unmoral killing

A scientific textbook called “Basics of Biology” gives five characteristics of living things; these five criteria are found in all modern elementary scientific textbooks:

1. Living things are highly organized.

2. All living things have an ability to acquire materials and energy.

3. All living things have an ability to respond to their environment.

4. All living things have an ability to reproduce.

5. All living things have an ability to adapt. [1]

According to this elementary definition of life, life begins at fertilization, when a sperm unites with an oocyte.  From this moment, the being is highly organized, has the ability to acquire materials and energy, has the ability to respond to his or her environment, has the ability to adapt, and has the ability to reproduce (the cells divide, then divide again, etc., and barring pathology and pending reproductive maturity has the potential to reproduce other members of the species).  Non-living things do not do these things.  Even before the mother is aware that she is pregnant, a distinct, unique life has begun his or her existence inside her. [1]

Furthermore, that life is unquestionably human.  A human being is a member of the species homo sapiens.  Human beings are products of conception, which is when a human male sperm unites with a human female oocyte (egg).  When humans procreate, they don’t make non-humans like slugs, monkeys, cactuses, bacteria, or any such thing.  Emperically-verifiable proof is as close as your nearest abortion clinic: send a sample of an aborted fetus to a laboratory and have them test the DNA to see if its human or not.  Genetically, a new human being comes into existence from the earliest moment of conception. [1]

“I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.  Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy.^”  Hippocrates, 400 B.C., Greece

This can be found in my first source. 

Since a fetus has been proven to be human as shown above, then abortion is murder and it is taking away the babies rights. Also just because it is growing and changing doesn't mean its not a human, humans are ALWAYS changing, puberty, middle age, and other changes. So if you say that a fetus isn't human because of that reason, then none of us are either. So, a fetus is a human, and killing it is a unmoral killing and should be considered murder. 

2. Religion

This is a fact. Religion prohibits abortion. "thou shall not murder"

Also it claims life at conception, and since it claims this then an abortion is murder. 

"And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life." exodus 21:22-23

So one who does the abortion will be punished. More info at my 2 source, this quote was from there. 

3. More people are pro-life than pro-choice

4. Fetuses can feel pain

by 20 weeks fetuses can feel pain.

Kanwaljeet J. S. Anand, MBBS, DPhil, Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. "If the fetus is beyond 20 weeks of gestation, I would assume that there will be pain caused to the fetus. And I believe it will be severe and excruciating pain."

5. when legal backstreet abortions increase

peaking before the 93rd Congress of the US, Senator James Buckley stated: "Data from foreign countries having far longer experience with legalized abortion than we have had in the US, suggest that legalization has no effect on the criminal abortion rate. In at least three countries, the criminal abortion rate has actually risen since legalization. Legalized abortion moves the back alley abortionists into the front office where their trade can be practiced without fear of criminal prosecution." [3]

Dr Christopher Tietze, an abortion advocate, concedes: "Although one of the major goals of the liberalization of abortion laws in Scandinavia was to reduce the incidence of illegal abortion, this was not accomplished. Rather as we know from a variety of sources, both criminal and total abortions increased." [3]

here's the best conclusion:

The Republican Party wrote the following position in its "2008 Republican Party Platform," published in 2008 on its website www.gop.com:

"At its core, abortion is a fundamental assault on the sanctity of innocent human life. Women deserve better than abortion. Every effort should be made to work with women considering abortion to enable and empower them to choose life. We salute those who provide them alternatives, including pregnancy care centers, and we take pride in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives...

We lament that judges have denied the people their right to set abortion policies in the states... We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life..."

http://prolifephysicians.org/lifebegins.htm [1]

http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/prolife.html [2]

Gallup polls

http://www.christianaction.org.za/articles/10rguments.htm [3]