Abortion Should Be Illegal In The US

Since abortions were legalized in 1973, after the Roe v. Wade trial, there has been an estimated fifty-six million legalized abortions in the U.S. alone (“19 Statistics About Abortion”). That is equal to roughly one-point-one million abortions being performed annually in the U.S. (“19 Statistics About Abortion”). The Roe v. Wade trial was a trial in 1973 that was won by the people for abortion. They argued that since it’s the woman's body, they should get to decide, but once a women gets pregnant, it’s not just her body anymore. She’s sharing her body with that unborn child. While some say that abortions are harmless and that the mother should have the right to have one, I believe that abortions should be illegal in the U.S. I believe this because abortions are cruel to the babies, physically harmful to the mother, and also mentally harmful to the mother.

Even the U.S. Government considers unborn babies as living people (“Should Abortions Be Legal”). Babies develop a heartbeat at six weeks of age, but it’s estimated that 92% of all abortions take place after that time (“19 Statistics About Abortion”). Furthermore, studies have shown that the babies feel pain during an abortion (Should Abortions Be Legal). So not only are babies biologically considered living people, but also 92% of the time they have a heartbeat, and they feel the pain of the abortion. Besides the fact that the babies are living, abortions are also wrongful because they can be physically harmful to the