Every year in Canada, over 100 000 murders never reach the courtroom.1 They never reach the courtroom because they are completely legal. Abortion continues to grow across the world, hurting and killing children, as well as their mothers. Abortion is i mmoral, harmful, and actions must be taken to stop it. When a woman aborts, she is not only killing her child but is also harming herself. Legal abortion is the fifth leading cause of maternal death.2 Ten percent of women undergoing abortion suffer immediate complications, and one fifth of those are consid ered life threatening.3 Teenage aborters are...
as convulsions.17 The third method is used if the baby is in its last three months. It involves injecting prostaglandin into the unborn baby. He or she then has a heart attack. Prostaglandin also induces labour, and often the baby is born still alive. If this happens, he or she is generally left to die.18 All of these methods are extremely cruel and excruciatingly painful. These crimes against humanity must be abolished. Abortion hurts everybody: the child, the mother, and often even the father. If human life itself cannot be valued, then what kind of values can society have?