"Abortion Should Be Illegal" Why should abortion be illegal in the US? This is a persuasive essay, which provides reasons why abortion is wrong and why it should be illegal.

Because this is a persuasive essay and there are not to many statistics that can be used to support an opinion, perhaps more could be written about the effects abortion has on young women, both psychologically and physically. Since not all people are of the same opinion, try to effect others' by personal accounts of young women who were traumatized by getting an abortion. there are accounts easily available over the internet.

This esay is good. However, there are many other facts about abortions that were not mentioned. facts such as, how abortions can affect your health or mental staus. Abortions like any other surgeories can take a toll on your life. Even if you look at the process that the doctors or nurses take to destroy the baby/fetus is murder in all itself. So if he/she would have added a little more fact it would have made it all the better.

This essay, was sheer feeling and needed more info, and more support than it had..

The author is definitely passionate about his/her stance on abortion, but the arguments presented were based on emotion and not fact. Several other alternatives were presented in the comments, such as instances for rape or harm to the mother. From my standpoint and personal experience, my wife and I had a difficult decision to make when we were presented with the news that our first child had a condition called infantile polycystic kidney syndrome. This meant that my son would be born with either severely underdeveloped lungs or no lungs at all, a dysfunctional kidney, heart problems and other difficulties that presented a zero (I repeat zero, not minimal) chance of survival after birth. Additionally, carrying my son to full term would also place the health of my wife in great danger. We chose to terminate early through inducing labor after 24 weeks. I'm interested to hear what viewpoints the pro-lifers would say in this case when a wanted child had absolutely no chance of survival after birth with additional health complications and the possibility of no future pregnancies for my wife if she carried full term.

My viewpoint, and I welcome criticism for this, is that it is a woman's choice for her body. This does not mean that she should indiscriminately abort a child on a whim. But, if circumstances such as rape, incest, drug abuse, or danger to the mother and/or child, are present, then the mother should have the option to abort. True, a human life is valuable, but so is dignity and a proper upbringing in a loving and caring home.

The essay only looked at the argument from one side, the language used was purely emotive with not real fact, just the authors own opinion. It isn't mentioned how she would view abortion if it was the result of rape, or whether abortion is justified if the child is severely disabled or puts the mother's life in danger.

In New York there was research done into crime rates. It was discovered that since abortion was legalised crime rates dropped significantly; suggested reason was that there were less unwanted children being born, so were not there to commit the crimes.

Also if abortion wasn't legal then desperate women would have back street abortions and endanger their lives or go to a different country - Irish women who need an abortion have to travel to England - they still have the abortion just in a different country at a huge cost!

This essay is just the feelings of one person unsupported by any research or logic. Whether one agrees or disagrees with abortion, this essay does nothing to further understanding.

Yes, I agree with the writer, however, we do not share similar convictions. We are human beings and we are gifted with free will. Surviving is a matter of making the right choices. And, whether we like it or not, sometimes we may come across a decision on such a thing as abortion.

Refusing to abort can perhaps be a good decision, but not in all cases. A person's right to abortion should be preserved.

My opinion about abortions is that they should be legal only if the life or health of the woman is endangered or if the tests show that the child will be born with a serious mental or physical defect.I also think that the legalization of abortions increases the number of irresponsible pregnancies and is a disrespect to the human life.

You have some good ideas but i dont agree with you 100%.

What about when a girl gets raped, she is afriad of getting pregant and her worst fears come true? Shouldn't she be able to have an abortion?

But if it is made illegal then she will never be able to do this.

Some people are reckless and do get pregant at the wrong time because they are not reponsible but not all of them.

You have some excellent points but it is very generalized.

Your essay isn't too bad but, it mainly deals with your feelings rather than facts. You need to include more facts and less of your feelings.

I find it hard to believe this essay was written by an 11-grader and got a 94. It's one-sided and is not supported by facts or any other type of evidence.

we really need some more fact. your writing are only based on opinion, which is different for each point of view. you should enter more statistic, that peeps DO support your opinion.


i agreed with Jenni854830, maybe we have a different point of view (or at least jenni showed us some evidence).

I think abortion is alright only if the mother has financial problems or family problems because if the girl has those problems, how could the baby be safe and happy afters/he is born?

what's right and what's wrong who's is to judge. Parents, friends ,t.v .Lets just say what is the right age 15 ,18 or 21 to have an abortion. Is not the case of responsibility anymore is the enviourment factors or the society. Are u able to support yourself or still living off your parents or the goverment?

Not completely terrible, for a simple statement of your opinions and viewpoint. If someone wanted to know exactly what this person thinks about abortion, they would do well to read this essay. However, if someone was looking for factual information they wouldn't find it here.

I believe that I am the most intelligent person on the planet. I have no statistics fact or figures, or even reasonably good arguments in order to back up this assumption of mine, but think that if I believe in this strongly enough then everyone else will eventually have to agree. This is a load of twaddle, like that 'essay' a wild outburst of emotion does not constitute what the rest of us know as an essay, which usually involves some degree of knowledge, understanding, research, analysis and evaluation. This'essay' lacks all of these things.

I found few points of revelant information in this essay.It reveals the opinion of someone young with prejudice.OK, killing a fectus is wrong. We've all learned that in church.But can't you give a independent and wise opinion about abortion? Do you think that in order to avoid abortion, people will stop to have sex?!And what about rape? Would you be a caring mother to the son/daughter of your raper? As you can see having sex or not can sometimes not being a choice. We all have the right to live, even a fectus- I certainly agree.But the right to live with DIGNITY: it's not the same of being just born!

I believe this essay has a really good point. My Mom told me when I was 14 or 15 that she had thought about getting an abortion because of her and my Dad's financial situation. But my Dad had talked her out of it. I'm sure glad she made the choice not to have one, and she knows now how wrong it is.


I'm glad because here I am today writing this, I would not have known what life was or is like, I'm glad that I do. And I feel, that no matter what type of financial or physical situation the mother is in, abortion must be illegal. If you don't want the child or can't afford the child or can't handle it, then just put it up for adoption.


This was a well-written essay, yes, there are personal opinions, but the author gave the reasons why he/she thought what they thought.

Technically, in abortion, it is the killing of cells. Therefore, we can not entirely say that we are killing people when we abort, for it is destroying the developing fetus. For example, bacteria is a living thing. Just that they kill other living cells, when we destroy these harmful cells, do we feel remorse? No. It is just a way of life. But just to be safe, dont do sex until you become an adult and believe that you can handle having children.

it was a very good artical but should abortion be illegal under certain surcomstances

Abortion should be illegal, it's not a form of birth control. I am a female and i can not imagine anything making me go through with one, i might even keep a child if i was raped, it's not the baby's fault...

This is one person's view, a rant, expressed through emotive language with no factual reinforcement.


If you are going to make statements like "Even though it is a fetus, it is still living. People say that just because it isn't born it doesn't matter, when really it does. The fetus is still alive and growing. If you kill it, then you kill a living thing..." then you have to be prepared to back it up with some kind of evidence that suggests your opinion is true.

This article says nothing about being raped. What would you do then if you were that same 15 year old girl who was raped? Would you still have the baby and tell your kid that his/her dad is a rapist? Definitely not.

If you don't want a baby, have sex with a lesbian :)

For an 11th grade essay, I'm amazed that this highly controversial and vital topic merited in your judgement a mere four tiny paragraphs. That alone, and the onesidedness of your argument clearly shows the lack of care you devoted to such an issue which is rather offensive.

I absolutely agree that abortion should....no..MUST be illegal...you don't want a child...don't have sex...end of story

This is driven by emotion and has a huge bias. I don't know how any teacher would give this ridiculous and ludicrous essay an A+... Do you have any scientific proof that a baby is alive when it is a fetus? I think not. You know nothing about this topic.. you just follow the religious propaganda and for that I would give you a C+. It was a decent rant but by no means should anyone be persuaded by your "argument"