Pro Choice Abortion - What About the Unborn Child? Randall Niles reviews a recent case like Nadal Hasan and his terrorist attack at Fort Hood in light of the legal and logical disconnect between criminal and Constitutional law. Did Nadal Hasan kill 13 people or 14 people, since one of his victims was pregnant?

Pro-choice abortion is the belief that women have the right to choose to abort a baby from their body. The "pro-choice" view is that a baby does not have human rights within the mother's womb. The people of the United States never voted on or supported this pro-choice position. Actually, it was the U.S. Supreme Court that "legalized" abortion as a result of Roe vs. Wade on January 22, 1973.

Pro-choice Abortion - The Procedural Choices (no gory details)
Pro-choice abortion allows women to choose how to abort an unwanted child. Typically, the abortion method is determined by the age of the fetus. During the first trimester of growth, a woman may elect to use the "morning after pill" (RU-486) or have a Suction Abortion. At the end of the third month, the abortion is usually performed by Dilation and Curettage (D&C) or, after thirteen weeks, a Dilation and Extraction (D&E). After sixteen weeks of fetal growth, a woman can choose to experience a Partial Birth Abortion or have Saline Amniocentesis. Regardless of the moral and religious implications, every woman should investigate how each procedure is done, what side effects are normal or abnormal, and what complications may arise due to having an abortion.

What are the main points of a pro-choice view of abortion?

Here are the main views of the pro-choice arena:

Pro-choice advocates argue, "It's not a baby/person - just a blob of tissue."
Pro-life advocates suggest that there is proven scientific research that says the fetus is a living organism from the moment of conception. The baby's blood supply is also completely separate from the mother's. There is no doctor who would kill a newborn baby at the time it is born. So, their question is, "At what minute can one consider life to be worthless and at the next minute, that life to be precious?"

Pro-choice advocates argue, "It's my body - a woman's choice."
Pro-life advocates counter this way. The fetus is a completely separate life from the woman. It has a different blood type and genetic code. It is not just a part of the mother's body. It is only residing there, and birth is just the change of residence from an already living, active person. Just because the fetus is dependent on the mother for its life for nine months does not give the mother the right to choose to end its life.

Pro-choice advocates argue, "If abortion is made illegal, women will die in back alleys.
Pro-life advocates explain: The court case, Roe v. Wade basically made people who were previously considered illegal abortionist now legal. When that came into effect, the state constitutionally barred from requiring review of the abortion decision by a hospital committee or concurrence in the decision by two physicians other than the attending physician. The Constitution also prohibits a state from requiring that the abortion be in a hospital licensed by the Joint Committee on Accreditation of Hospitals or that it be a hospital at all. Therefore, the court simply let illegal back-alley abortionists go legal with their procedures unchanged.

Pro-choice advocates ask, "What about a woman who has suffered rape or incest or is carrying a disabled child?
Pro-life advocates explain that they do not cure illness by killing the patient, and that can be considered prejudice. Yes, a woman who has been made a victim of rape or incest has gone through a terrifying experience. However, there is also a second victim, the baby. Women who have undergone abortion under these circumstances feel they have undergone a second act of violence when they have aborted.

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