The Choice of Living

Nathan Thomas
Professor McMurtry
English 102
The Choice of Living
Abortion has been a heavily debated topic over the last thirty to forty years. It is an issue that stirs up great amounts of emotions on both sides and has been the cause for many acts a violence. On one side of the issue, there are the Anti-Abortion, or Pro-Life, advocates. Pro-Lifers are people that believe life begins at conception and that aborting a fetus is murder. On the other side are Pro-Abortion, or Pro-Choice, advocates. These people believe that the child is not alive until it is born and that aborting the child any time before birth is just. They believe that the child is a part of the mother until it is born, and that the mother should be able to decide whether to have it or not. Throughout history, abortion was looked upon as evil and immoral. It has only been recently, in the last thirty to forty years, that it has been accepted by the population and the amount of abortions has increased stead...