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Essay / Abortion is a crime that should be banned - 632
Around 42 million abortions take place each year worldwide. That's 3,500,000 per month, 115,000 per day, 4,800 per hour and 80 per minute. Approximately every second, a baby dies due to abortion. Do these helpless babies really deserve to be murdered without the chance to live as human beings? Abortion is wrong. If a mother killed her baby after birth, she would likely be charged with murder. What makes people consider the baby's life worthless and then important? Indeed, research suggests that a fetus is not a real human being and does not feel pain. So does this give people the right to kill the baby in such a brutal manner? It is absolute torture for the baby when it is aborted. No precautions are used to prevent pain to the baby. If a baby is younger than 13 weeks, the suction curettage method is used. It is inserted into the mother, then the baby is cut into pieces and sucked through the tube. If the baby is older than 13 weeks, a method called "release" is used. A high concentration of salt water is injected, which the baby then swallows, p...