Why does abortion occur?
Medical Treatment to the Mother
Sometimes the unborn child dies as a secondary and unintended result of medical intervention to save the life of the Mother. These types of abortion have always been legal and to a degree morally acceptable. Some statistics indicate that less than 1% of abortions take place to save the life of the mother.
Rape or Incest
Often a woman will seek an abortion when she conceives a child due to rape or sexual abuse from a relative. Cases where this is the motive are very, very rare.
Though it is a terrible ordeal for the woman to go through it must be remembered that the conceived child has done no wrong and yet is being punished by being killed.
A key element to countering pro-abortion groups is to stick to the facts – abortion kills babies whatever the motivation may be.
Health of the Baby
In some cases tests reveal that a baby may be born with physical problems then some parents chose abortion. However, as we will see in our second point, The Slippery Slope, abortion as a solution to handicapped or deformed children is not a safe or moral basis for killing the child.
Unwanted Child
The vast majority of abortions take place because the child is simply not wanted. Maybe because of the shame of a teenage pregnancy, the threat of rejection by family, friends or society, or for many other reasons a person may choose abortion.
However, we come back to the fact that all abortions, for whatever reason, kill babies.
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