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Argumentative Essay Abortion

This document discusses the controversial issue of abortion from both sides of the debate. The author argues that abortion should be legalized by refuting common counterarguments. Their main points are: 1. Personhood begins at birth, not fertilization, so abortion does not involve killing a human being. 2. Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain during abortions according to medical research. 3. Studies claiming an association between abortion and breast cancer have been refuted by medical organizations. The author acknowledges common counterarguments like abortion involving killing and fetuses feeling pain, but provides evidence-based refutations from medical experts and organizations.

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Argumentative Essay Abortion

This document discusses the controversial issue of abortion from both sides of the debate. The author argues that abortion should be legalized by refuting common counterarguments. Their main points are: 1. Personhood begins at birth, not fertilization, so abortion does not involve killing a human being. 2. Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain during abortions according to medical research. 3. Studies claiming an association between abortion and breast cancer have been refuted by medical organizations. The author acknowledges common counterarguments like abortion involving killing and fetuses feeling pain, but provides evidence-based refutations from medical experts and organizations.

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Argumentative Essay Abortion

Our world today is full of unsolved and controversial issues. Most of them relate to our morals, ethics
and religion, thus creating a very strong yes and no, or good and bad side. Abortion has a very
outstanding black and white side but also contains traces of each in the alternating colour. This shows
that if you were to come to any kind of conclusion on abortion, there would still be a downside to it,
and that is primarily why the world cannot agree on this sensitive and emotional issue. An abortion is
when the pregnancy is ended so that it does not result in the birth of a child. It allows women to put an
end to their pregnancies, but involves killing the undeveloped embryo or fetus. For this reason, it is a
very controversial subject. Being pregnant and wishing you weren't is probably the worst feeling a
woman can have.

Knowing that if you brought a child into the world and you didn't want it, or you would have to give it
up for adoption is such a disheartening way to start off, and you and the un-born child would be so
much better off if you were to terminate the pregnancy and wait for a more appropriate time, or in the
case of rape, put the past behind you and move on. When we hear of women having abortions, we
seem to automatically think that she wasn't careful enough, or she didn't use contraception. We forget
to stop and think about the other possible reasons, she may have accidentally become pregnant. Just
forgetting to take one pill per packet can reduce it's effectiveness.

Condoms can tear or be forgotten, and emergency contraceptives like the morning after pill are not
easily obtainable. 50% of women getting an abortion in Britain used some form of contraception when
they got pregnant. This obviously shows that women are having huge problems with using
contraception, and something needs to be done about it. This also means that we can't judge people
immediately. Women are still getting pregnant even though they use contraceptives. I think that
women have the right to get an abortion if they tried to prevent the pregnacy.

My thesis is: Abortion should be legalized.


Arguments:
1. Personhood begins at birth, not at fertilization,.
2. Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when an abortion is performed.
3. An association between abortion and breast cancer is unsubstantiated.

Counter arguments:
1. Abortion involves killing a human being
2. Fetuses feel pain during the abortion procedure
3. Abortion increases the likelihood that women will develop breast cancer

Refutation of the counter argument:


1. A lot of people have the counter argument "abortion is murder". That's not true, abortion is the
termination of a pregnancy, not a baby. Personhood at fertilization, is not a proven biological fact. To
think that personhood starts at fertilization is a religious belief, nor a provable fact.

2. According to Stuart W. G. Derbyshire, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham


(England), "not only has the biological development not yet occurred to support pain experience, but
the environment after birth, so necessary to the development of pain experience, is also yet to occur."

3. The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists have all refuted the reliability of studies claiming abortion can lead to
a higher probability of developing breast cancer.

1. Stuart W. G. Derbyshire, PhD, "Can Fetuses Feel Pain?," British Medical Journal, Apr. 29, 2006

2. Planned Parenthood of New Jersey, "Anti-choice Claims About Abortion and Breast Cancer,"

Sources used in this report:


http://www.bmj.com/content/332/7546/909
http://www.debate.org/abortion-debate/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2013/07/questions-about-both-sides-of-the-abortion-
debate/ http://www.rfsu.se/Sex-och-politik/Fokus-SRHR/Ratten-till-abort/
www.plannedparenthoodnj.org

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