An Abortion for My Fourteen-Year-Old Daughter

An Abortion for My Fourteen-Year-Old?
Jacquelyn Garrod
Argument
Abortion should be illegal for any women to obtain, even a fourteen year old. Abortion is murder; it is the killing of an unborn baby. In today’s society, regular people are not allowed to go out and just murder someone for no reason, so why should doctors be allowed to murder unborn babies? The term "abortion" actually refers to any premature expulsion of a human fetus, whether naturally spontaneous, as in a miscarriage, or artificially induced, as in a surgical or chemical abortion. In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions legalizing abortion in all 50 states during all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason, medical, social, or otherwise. (www.nrlc.org). The vast majority of all abortions performed today are done for social, not medical reasons.
Though there is evidence of doctors and midwives performing abortions in the United States as far back as the 18...