People use the term 'murder' rather loosely!
Murder is when someone intentionally or recklessly kills another!
Now abortion (in most cases) is a medical precedure where the mother has the fetus's development terminated and hence removed from her uterus. There is nothing reckless or intentional about this! The mother didn't abort due to spite over the fetus!
We do have a small proportion of mothers who injure themselves so that the feutus will die (this I believe is murder)
I hate these people who are into using emotive language to make the aborting mother feel guilt over this. The mother already feels bad for aborting, why make them feel worse?
What is shocking is that I learnt through criminology that almost 20,000 Australians per year are sexually assaulted where 84% of these victims are female and what is even more shocking is that female victims aged 10-14 years old take up the highest rate (544 in 100,000 (that is about 1 in 183) females aged 10-14 will be sexually assaulted). Abortion is contraversial topic that goes beyond the biology involved and the morality of taking a 'potential' life, what about these young females who concieve based on being sexually assaulted or through mistakes.
We should be banging on the media's door right this moment about how sex is shown to be trendy with the ads we see, movies we watch and yes the songs we listen to (imagine 40 years ago having your children listen to 'Lady Gaga', 'Britney Spears', 'The Pussy Cat Dolls' and whatever else the music industry has thrown at the public). We as people can accept this as a way of life for children, but, heavens forbid them aborting through making bad decisions (decisions that shouldn't even enter a child's life), well that is just not on! Come on! Now you anti-abortion activists will say these people take up a small number and it is just wrong to abort but the fact is that denying abortion period to anyone is even more morally wrong.
Ultimately people abort for reasons such as:
- Mother not having the mental capacity to look after a child.
- Mother being sexually assaulted.
- Mother being a child themselves.
- The feutus's development may lead to complications that will affect the quality of life to the child to be born
- Mother making a mistake as an 'adult' and just wanting to put that behind them (this I don't support)
etc
So I just want to finish by saying that banning abortion altogether should not happen!