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When They Say "A Woman's Right
to Choose"…
Part Two of Three Editor's note. The following essay was written for the National Right to Life Pro-Life Essay Contest. Maureen M. Mead of Blasdell, New York, won first place at the senior level--grades 10-12. What is a right? Miriam-Webster Dictionary says that a right is "a power or privilege to which one is justly entitled". Our founding fathers thought that every human being has unalienable rights, and one of these is the right to life. How then does our country justify abortion? Those in support of abortion will say that it is acceptable because of a woman's right to choose. They say that it is the woman's body, and thus she has the right to choose what to do with it, even if that means abortion.
Yes, we have many choices to make, but just because we can choose to end another person's life does not ever justify doing so. Yet there are those who argue, "Who are you to tell me what to do with my body?" The truth is, this does not just involve the woman's body anymore. The baby in the womb is not simply an attachment or growth, but a new person, with rights to its body. This is not a potential for human life- this is a human being. As a human being, although small and hidden from view, this unborn child has just as much right to its body as the next person. We would not suggest that a mother could kill her three year old because her child is not big enough to have rights yet, but we deprive a infant in the womb its right to be born simply because it is so small. Furthermore, if I saw a woman about to do something to her body that could severely harm her, I, and the average person with a conscience, would do everything to try and prevent her from doing it. Abortion is extremely harmful to women both physically and psychologically, and yet the world stands by silently and lets it happen. Everyone deserves the right to grow up, laugh, make mistakes, and live their life fully. No one deserves to have their life brutally ripped from them. Abortion is the greatest act of cowardice, because it preys on those who cannot defend themselves. We have the right to make choices, but what are we choosing? We have an obligation to protect the weak and the innocent. There will never be a day when it is justifiable to take another person's right to live simply because we can. Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. |
People
who use the phrase "a woman's
right to choose", coined by
pro-abortionists as a marketing
technique and never meant to be
a legitimate argument, are
forgetting one important thing.
Just because it is in your power
to make a choice, that does not
make the choice right. I can
choose to walk down the street
and shoot someone, but that does
not mean that there should be a
law allowing me to do so. A
choice is always just a choice,
it is not the outcome.