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The Cons of Abortion
The issue of abortion has our country split between the
Pro-Choice (pro-death) people and the Pro-Life people. The
dictionary defines abortion as "A miscarriage produced
artificially."
Abortion has been known to be practiced as long as
people can remember. Even prostitutes in Bible times
performed abortions to get rid of unwanted pregnancies. In
the United States abortion was illegal until the Supreme
Court legalized it with the case of Roe v. Wade. That
decision was the official starting point of the Pro-Choice
and Pro-Life conflict.
There are many reasons why a woman should not have an
abortion. Many women chose not to have one because of
religious reasons. An abortion is killing a baby (fetus),
and the Bible has a lot to say about that. In Exodus 20:13
and Deuteronomy 5:17 the Bible says "Thou shalt not kill."
That is pretty cut and dry, although the Pro-choicers try to
say that life begins at birth, when it really begins at the
moment of conception. The Lord tells the women of the world
that they should take care of the baby in their wombs in
Isaiah 49:15 with the passage, "Can a woman forget her
sucking child, that she should not have compassion on her son
in her womb? yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget
thee," and again by saying, "Before I formed thee in the
belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the
womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto
the nations," in Jeremiah 1:5.
Aside from the religious sins that you will be held
accountable for if you do not ask for forgiveness through
Christ, there are many physical risks a woman takes when
going through an abortion. An abortion is the most often
performed surgical procedure in the United States, and yet it
is the only operation that the government does not force to
doctors to tell the patient exactly what is going to happen.
Seventy-seven per cent of all the women that go through
an abortion for genetic reasons go through an acute grief
reaction. This is a sort of depression following the
abortion. On the same lines, half of all women that have had
an abortion go through some type of emotional or
psychological disturbance. These disturbances can last for
months, and they include things like depression, insomnia,
nervousness, guilt, and regret.
Many women feel as if they can have an abortion now, and
have a child in the future when they are more ready. This
may not always be possible. One quarter of all the abortion
patients have some type of major complication in a future
pregnancy. Many women suffer from excessive bleeding,
premature delivery, cervical damage, and/or sterility. A
miscarriage can be devastating to a woman, but unfortunately
one out of every six woman have a miscarriage in their next
pregnancy due to the cervical damage which occurred during
the abortion process.
Even if a woman were to defeat the odds, and to get by
all of the previously mentioned complications, she would
still have a tough battle with the possible side effects that
are often associated with abortion patients.
An inflammatory, known as Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
(PID) occurs in many first-trimester abortions. This disease
is a bacterial infection, and must be treated quickly. When
a younger woman gets PID she is more likely to have a tubal
pregnancy than a woman who never had the disease. Also,
women in general are 30% likely to have tubal pregnancies
after the have had an abortion. Women that have had two or
more abortions face a staggering 160% higher risk of having a
tubal pregnancy. Breast cancer is 140% more likely in a
woman that has had an abortion over one that has not.
Women that have had abortions greatly harm future
placentas. A woman can get what is known as placenta previa,
which causes extremely severe, life-threatening bleeding in
future pregnancies. A woman is 600% more likely for this to
happen if she has had an abortion prior to the conception of
this child. Many woman also retain their placentas after an
abortion.
Certain groups of woman are at higher risks after an
abortion than others. Woman under 20 years of age face a
200% greater risk of having complications in general, when
compared to women aged 25-29. These woman are the highest
risk group as far as facing immediate medical attention after
an abortion for problems such as bleeding, infection, and
part of the baby still being the womb. This group of women
are faced with a 150% greater risk of some type of cervical
injury as compared to women over 30.
There are so many reasons for a woman to not want to
have an abortion, it is impossible to think of any reason why
a woman to have one. If you can't think of what the
concequences for having an abortion are after reading this
report, just ask any parent what life would be like without
their kids.