Pro-Life Community

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Pro-Life Community
Abortion is a very serious issue to many people. This issue is serious enough to separate people into groups of activists, pro-choice and pro-life. The pro-choice activists believe the fetus is not a living human being, so it is alright to abort it because it is not alive. The others, the pro-life activists, believe that the fetus is living, and to kill it would be considered murder. The word pro-life is more than just a word to them. To this group it is a belief, community and way of life.
The idea of pro-life means that a fetus is an actual living human, even when it is in the womb. There are different stages a fetus goes through from the second the egg and sperm join to when the fetus is born. Those different stages are where people decide whether the fetus is living or not. Barbra Mackinnon, a professor at the University of San Francisco, states in her book Ethics, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, “ In week 2 to week 8, organ systems such as the brain, spinal chord, heart, and digestive tube and certain structural features such as arm and leg buds begin and continue to develop”(161). During those weeks, the brain and heart, the most vital elements of the human, body have started to develop. The community of pro-life activists believes that this is the beginning of human life.
If abortion is wrong, how come murder of an unborn child be a charge is court? An example of this charge is the recent ruling on Scott Peterson. This trial has been on television for months, and everyone knows about it. Only recently did the jury just come up with a verdict on the case. Scott Peterson was charged with the murder of his wife Laci and their unborn child. He was charged with the murder of their unborn child, yet if anyone pays a doctor to have an abortion it’s legal. The law is uncertain if the killing of an unborn child is murder or not.
The controversy over abortion has carried into this year’s ...