Show Abortion A Complex Issue with a Simple Solution Michael Squires Contributing Writer Abortion is the killing of ofin in innocent lives through different different different differ differ- ent means of barbaric There are two predominant methods that are in practice today The first method though not as widely used is isone isone isone one that involves the baby even after they are 8 12 weeks old being punctured in the head with a needle and then with the aid of a tube sucking out the brains of the child The child chil is then pulled out of the body and thrown into the trash can The second is just as heinous they take a knife and while the baby is still inthe in inthe inthe the uterus cut the baby's limbs away from the body and break the spinal cord immediately resulting in death They too are simply discarded into the trash One asks What are their rights They have none for they are merely an unwanted lem This horrible act surprisingly surprisingly surprisingly occurs much to the dismay dismay dis dis- may of most Americans J quite frequently abortions tallied at over of accounted abortions abortions abortions abor abor- in the United States alone Compared to the amount of live births record record- ed by the Center for Disease Control abortions accounted for well over one third of all births Discouragingly this number seems to be be beon on the rise nse By 1965 all fifty states had legislation which made it illegal to have an abortion The historic 1973 Roe v. v Wade Supreme Court ruling changed all of that forever Using both the ninth and fourteenth amendments as the basis for their ruling they claimed that abortions fit under the privacy clause In 2003 congress took a step inthe in inthe inthe the right direction banning partial birth abortions From its inception into American culture abortions were viewed as final and extreme solutions to difficulties difficulties difficulties ties in birth They were done when two lives were at risk to save one the mother Now the majority of them are done when no lives are at risk and andone andone andone one of them dies the child Women have a choice that is true They have choices but that does not mean that they can nor should be able to escape the consequences thereof Because someone enters into the thC agreement to have sex rex sex and then becomes pregnant pregnant preg preg- n nant nt they should face the consequences of their es The also stated that most doctors find that with today's medicine the clear majority of all abortion cases can be helped and both lives spared In addition addition- to that information they too found that rape cases only account for 1 of all abortions More shockingly is that 49 of all women who get abortions will return to get another abortion So why kill an innocent life if it can be stopped in the first place through abstinence abstinence abstinence nence or today's technology gy It is clear that women and men for that matter do donot donot donot not want to face up to the monster of a problem they themselves created Babies have rights too They have the same rights guaranteed under the Who are we to state that an immoral act of sex p can n con e t he h rh rip i u Vu ow u. u Vow V killing an innocent infant There are better alternatives To all men and women donot do donot donot not have sex outside of marriage marriage marriage mar mar- or if the situation really really really real real- ly calls for it give the child up for adoption We should not try to legislate and go to court on the issue we should simply stop it before it hap hap- pens We claim to be civilized but I often wonder whether i J or people wha are so adamantly for abortions would not have minded if for some reason they were killed over the impulsive acts of a aone aone aone one night stand |