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9. Heartbeat Legislation: A fetus is a person entitled to the rights and protection granted all citizens.

Jill Waltz Unborn children are still people, so they have rights just like everybody else - which includes the right to life. The Heartbeat Legislation would make it so a woman can only get an abortion if there is no heartbeat detected. This means that the woman would only be able to get an obortion within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, so if they did end up getting an obortion, the fetus would feel no pain. If the Heartbeat Legislation passes, it will be better than the current law in place in Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama "that proects unborn children after 20 weeks, when there is medical evidence that the uborn can feel pain"(Michael J. New). Another reason I'm for the Heartbeat Legislation is because when you abort a child, you're killing a human being- and that can fact can take a serious toll on the mother's metal health. "Statistics have proven that after being induced to destroy the fetus, most women suffer feelings of grief at a very high intensity level for prolonged periods of time..." (ChristiaNet,1). If you really think about it, would all that grief of killing your own child really be worth going through with the abortion? New, Michael J. "Ohio's Heartbeat Bill Causes Controversy." //Www.nationalreview.com//. The Corner, 15 Sept. 2011. Web. 18 Oct. 2011 World Wide Christian Community. "Abortion Pro Life Article." //Christian Free Bible Loans Dating Debt Penpals Advertising at ChristiaNet.com//. ChristiaNet, Mar.-Apr. 2005. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. < [|http://www.christianet.com/abortionfacts/abortionprolife.htm] >. || QUESTION 9: PRO-B Drew Sarno Baby's that are still in the mothers womb should be considered people. They are growing older just like one of us. The only difference is they have a dependence on their mother for survival. Children that are unborn are still humans and should get the rights that we get or else it would be discriminating. This goes back to how we would discriminate against African Americans. They were people just like these children that are getting murdered. The heartbeat act says that you can get a abortion all the way up until they are 20 weeks old.Kenneth Jost from cqresearcher states "Mike Flood is a lawyer and a radio station owner, not a doctor or scientist. But after listening to medical experts on both sides of the issue, Flood is convinced that a fetus is capable of feeling pain by the 20th week of pregnancy. And as a speaker for the Nebraska Senate, Flood relied on that conclusion in sponsoring and guiding to enactment a new state law that imposes an outright ban on abortions at the 20th week." This shows that the arguments win over people to be pro the heartbeat act. Some people say that it is a woman's choice to get a abortion but that is taking all rights away from the child. Is this constitutional? In most cases abortion is from someone who already has a child and can't take care of another. But there are so many mothers that are physically unable to create a baby and would be happy to take that child. "The subset of women in America who most frequently make use of abortion services, writes Lauren Sandler in slate this week, are … mothers. In 2008, according to the Guttmacher Institute, 61 percent of women who terminated their pregnancies already had at least one child." In conclusion abortion should not be applied after 20n weeks when the baby is developing. It is not only wrong but it is murder.
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Warner, Juidith. "Is 'choice' less accepted for mothers?" //New York Times.// N./p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.

Jost, Kenneth. "Abortion Debates." CQresearchers. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.  ||<  ||<   ||   ||



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