Take a Stand Essay: Abortion in America, an Epidemic

Take a Stand Essay: Abortion in America, an Epidemic

So how can one tell if someone is alive? One obvious indication of life is the presence of a heartbeat. Within 18- 24 days of conception, a heartbeat is something a human embryo possesses, which makes this embryo alive. It is a living human embryo. Abortion in the United States is a nation-wide act of murder recurring day after day, and many people are unaware of its gruesome methods and how similar they are to the things this nation has seen in the past. Abortion in the United States needs to come to an end.

If you put your thumb parallel to your index finger and examine the space between them, you will be looking at the approximate size of a ten-week-old fetus’ feet. At this point in his life it is legal for his mother to choose to kill him using the most popular method of abortion during the first trimester, suction (vacuum) aspiration. Suction aspiration is usually performed when the fetus is 6-12 weeks old. This method includes the dilation of the cervix where a hollow plastic tube with a razor sharp tip is inserted into the mother’s uterus. The vacuum sucks his little, ten-week-old feet into the aspirator, which then tears his body into shreds while the vacuum pulls blood, fetal parts, placental tissue, and amniotic fluid into a collection bottle. The last time I checked, it was not morally acceptable to do this to a human being. When did it become customary to mutilate a human body using jagged blades and a suction tube? The answer is never, it is never okay to perform this act upon a human being. This form of abortion, the vilest way to abort a living member of the human species.

Another horrid method of abortion, that should never be performed, is the intracardiac injection abortion. A needle is pointed into the fetal’ heart using an ultrasound, and poison is injected, causing an immediate heart attack. In his book Facts of Life, published in 1997, Doctor Brian Clowes states that “intracardiac injection is most commonly used in ‘pregnancy reduction’ abortions following in vitro fertilization or IVF procedures.” (Clowes, 3.) IVF is a major treatment of infertility where the egg cells are fertilized by the sperm outside of the body. Women resort to IVF when they cannot conceive on their own but want children. How somebody could pay an average of