Pro Life Information

When accidental pregnancies occur, there are many options available. However, the only one which should not be considered is abortion. Abortion is the murder of an unborn fetus which prevents the irresponsible parent from having to live up to their responsiblities. Legalized under Roe v. Wade, it granted women their right to privacy but served to legalize a procedure which was based on underdeveloped scientific techniques. As members of a Catholic community, we should all support the idea that a life begins at conception (intentional or otherwise), an idea which has recently been bolstered by scientific developments. In 8 weeks a fetus's brain and nerve system is full operational. To have an abortion is to dismember the fetus's head and suck out the body, an act which the fetus feels due to the presence of nerves.  Not only is abortion morally wrong, but it is a risk to the mother who undergoes the operation. In today's society there are numerous ways to deal with unwanted pregnancies which do not involve killing the baby. Instead of killing the child, the mother could carry the child to term and put the child up for adoption. Also, carrying the child to term could result in the mother changing her mind about the baby and end up raising the baby. While perfectly legal, that doesn't mean that it is right for people to get abortions to solve their problems. People argue that abortions are necassary in cases of rape or incest, but statistics have proven that these reasons account for only 5% of recorded abortions. The overwhelming opinion is that an abortion is had because it isn't convenient for the mother. We don't allow murder in general so why should we allow abortions just because its not convenient? If a person went up and killed someone because they were an" inconvinience" we would arrest that person and send him to jail. The same should apply with abortion.