Why Abortion Is An Injustice
Why Abortion is an Injustice An injustice is an unjust act or occurrence that does not seem fair; in other words an example of an injustice is abortion. Abortion is an injustice in many people’s opinions because a person would not even be giving the baby a chance at life, but killing it after they have made their own mistake. Abortion kills helpless babies everyday, and yet it still seems to remain legal. Killing other people is illegal, so isn’t killing an unborn child the same thing? Abortion is an injustice because all life is sacred and should be treated as so, but some do not even have a chance to make their own mistakes. Reason one as to why abortion is an injustice is that abortion kills the most helpless and innocent human beings. In fact, almost one in every four Americans are aborted. Most people explain that the reason why they can not have the baby is that it would interfere with work or school. Others say they can not afford it, and some do not want to have relationship problems with their loved ones. Unborn human beings are the most innocent and helpless because they have done nothing wrong and have no say. After 8 weeks, an unborn baby is able to feel real, physical pain during abortion. This is a proven fact that, after 8 weeks, major development has taken place and is still going on, which the babies begin to feel the pain of being aborted, yet can do nothing about it. A second reason as to why abortion is considered an injustice is because it is unsafe. Not only is it permanently harmful to the baby, but it can be just as harmful to the mother as well. In fact, abortion is 4 times more dangerous than childbirth. Abortion increases the chance of maternal death in later pregnancies, and increases the mother’s chance by 60 times to die from natural causes. Abortion can also produce serious medical problems, such as a coma, cervical and liver cancer, infections, depression, mental trauma, and sometimes death. Abortion is even more