Abortion Essay, Research Paper
Life or Death, Who Chooses?
In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was
permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were
no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada
along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the
United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World
Medical Association meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the
utmost respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception. This
declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo
in 1970. Should we go backwards in our concern for the life of an
individual human being?
The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking
of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of us
who would seek to protect the human who is still to small to cry aloud for
it’s own protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to
life in the last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality is using
arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological
science – Make no Mistake – that from the moment of conception, a new human
life has been created.