Awakening an issue that has lay dormant in recent years, the Senate passed a bill banning late-term abortion back in 2003. Every human being on this earth has or had a mother who struggled her way through pregnancy and childbirth. For every life that was granted, options were explored and decisions were made. One of those options could have been abortion. Abortion is an important personal issue that is quickly losing its legal standing in our society. The Bush administration has made it clear that it opposes legal abortion and disproves of increased sexual education, and the House needs only to vote on the bill banning late-birth abortion before it becomes a law. Abortion’s future in this country is dim, and all of the progress made by the pivotal Roe v. Wade decision could be lost. The government should revert to its hands-off stance on abortion and allow it to remain an option for potential parents. Statistical evidence has shown that legalized abortion has led to a decrease in negligent parenting. Evidence also shows that abortion is one of the safest medical procedures in current medicine, contrary to many beliefs. No matter how the current administration feels about abortion, it is a natural right that a mother must have in order to be in control of her body. No matter how many other decisions a mother makes, she must always be able to make the decision to abort her baby.
First and foremost, abortion is an issue of personal belief. No amount of scientific posturing will change whether a person believes an unborn child is conscious or not. Science cannot irrevocably claim either belief as true. Pro-life activists hold that abortion kills the unborn fetus as if it were a human being. Although a fetus will develop into a human being, whether or not it is conscious and whether or not aborting a fetus is the same as killing a human being is a matter of individual belief. Whether religion, morality, education, or upbringing guides this belief,...