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Abortion Essay

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Abortion may be one of the most ongoing disagreements throughout time, some may consider this act as wrong such as specified in this quote by Mother Teresa: “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.” Abortion not only murders an unborn child, causes guilt for the mother’s decision to end her pregnancy and may cause problems to the mother’s health; abortion is irreversible that child will not have life. Some women having an abortion can suffer from damage to the uterus, internal bleeding including having pieces of the baby left inside her body causing difficulties. By means of ending the pregnancy, the mother may …show more content…

Research displayed that almost 85,000 women in Uganda were treated for problems of unsafe abortions in 2003. The cost for treating an unsafe abortion has cost a total of 14million dollars each year in Uganda. By these statistics, women should be considered most important since if the women die so will the fetus.
Women have been found to suffer emotional distress after having had the abortion. Around 42 million women worldwide obtain a legal abortion each year, although many experience emotional relief over 30 % have experienced significant psychological distress that does not vanish over time. By examining California state Medicaid records of more than 56,700 low-income women, the research team found that women who aborted were 72 percent more likely to be admitted to hospital for "adjustment reactions," depressive psychosis and bipolar disorder in the first four years after their pregnancy than those who carried their babies to term. Statistics show that it is better for a woman to give birth to their baby rather than terminate their pregnancy regardless of their age of conceiving. Thoughts of suicide, a horrific mark of mental illness, the figures should be enough to convince anyone who cares about young women to desire a ban on abortion for minors, no pregnancy: 23%; pregnancy, no abortion: 25%; abortion: 50%. In December 2005 report, the South Dakota Task Force to Study Abortion, appointed by Gov. Mike Rounds (R.), cited

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