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** By John Whyte ** A mother kills her baby because it is unwanted, yet she is not charged with murder. Is this right? Believe it or not, this has happened more than twenty-million times in the past twenty years. The problem is that they have been killed legally because of abortion. Many people approve of abortion because they consider that a fetus is not an individual human until birth.
 * Abortion is Wrong **

Abortion is wrong and it shouldn't be legal. If a doctor killed a baby one minute after it were born, they would be charged with murder. But if they were to kill a baby one minute before it were born, and a minute before that and so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider life worthless and the next precious?

Some people will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death, but medical research proves that the fetus is a living organism. People also argue that a woman has the right to control her body and has the right to an abortion, but the fetus is a completely different life. Just because the unborn is dependent on the mother for nine months does not give anyone the right to end its life.

I hope that I have at least brought you to some understanding that a human fetus is a living individual. It should be remembered that a death occurs every time an abortion is performed – the death of an unborn child.

John Whyte is a member of ‘Christians Against Abortion,’ a youth organization which argues for an end to all abortions. Source: [|www.123helpme.com] free argumentative essays. Adapted by Cally Brennan.

1 paragraph response: Whyte’s main argument is that abortion is wrong, and he states it should be illegal. He argues that a foetus should be considered “a living organism” that is “precious”, and that no woman has the right to terminate a pregnancy. As a member of a religious lobby group, Whyte is clearly trying to spread his organisation’s ideological views. He argues his points quite strongly, but he only gives one side to this complex issue and he is too simplistic. He provides some illogical examples, such as arguing that a doctor may “kill a baby one minute before it were born” or inferring that some people believe a foetus is not alive. The writer’s language choice is highly emotive. He uses words and phrases such as “murder” and “kill a baby” rather than more dispassionate, medical language like “abort” or “terminate a foetus”. He provides some support for his argument, such as statistics and medical research, but Whyte provides no references about where his information came from. For example, it is not clear where 20 millions abortions have occurred over the last 20 years, and the source of this statistic is not provided. In addition, his argument would have been more convincing if he were able to give references for the medical research he mentions. Overall, this is a simplistic text based entirely on opinion which is strongly worded and emotive. While there is certainly no doubt about the author’s beliefs, he fails to consider that real life is much more complex than the article’s analysis.