Blog # 66: My Abortion Speech

**** Since I was not allowed to write my argument paper over abortion, I wanted to share a speech that I used for my Public Speaking Class: This was very important to me!

Melissa Drexler who became famous for the “prom mom,” gave birth to a newborn child in the restroom stall of her senior high school prom, strangling him to death, then putting the baby’s body in the trashcan before returning to the dance. She received 15 years in prison, but after 37 months in prison she was released on parole. Why is it such a crime to kill the baby after it’s born, but perfectly fine to have an abortion while the baby is still in the womb?
My goal today is to convince you that abortions and especially partial birth abortions are a killing of the baby and should be made illegal.
You may not think abortion is murder because the baby is not technically alive, but I have facts to prove to you that abortion is in fact murder and hopefully by the end of my speech I have persuaded you to become PRO LIFE and to never look to abortion as an option.
Being in the Catholic Religion, I have developed a huge passion for being against abortion under all circumstances. I even traveled all the way to Washington, D.C. in January 2007 and 2008 to be a part of the March for Life. For those of you who are unaware of what that is, it is basically a huge rally of Tens of Thousands of people who come together and march for what we believe that abortion is not right and needs to be stopped.
According to ABBORTION NO. ORG 42 million abortions happen worldwide every year. In the United States alone there are approximately 1.37 million abortions every year and 3,700 abortions every single day. 82% of all abortions are performed on single women, 18% of all abortions are performed on married women. 1% of all abortions occur if the women was raped or incest. 6% of all abortions occur of potential health problems. 93% of abortions occur due to the baby was unwanted. Among these abortions, partial birth abortions take place, a very gruesome killing of the baby. In one clinic alone, it was counted that 1500 partial birth abortions were done in the year 1996.
Many people have not yet been educated what exactly partial birth abortions are. The procedure is typically done between the 4th and 6th month of pregnancy, but also commonly done in the 9th month of pregnancy. I will tell you a brief but gruesome way in which the doctor performs a partial birth abortion. With forceps he basically reaches up and grabs the baby’s legs, pulls the entire body out except the head, and then uses a tool to suck the brain out of the squirming babies head.
Many young women are obviously becoming confused on what IS legal and what IS illegal. I think abortion in general is wrong, but partial birth abortion is extremely disturbing to me and should become a federal crime.
Raising a child is a huge responsibility and many young women are not ready for the commitment. In my opinion, if you are willing to lie down and make the baby, then you should be willing to stand up and raise the baby. However, there are many ways to prevent pregnancy and abortion should not be an option.
Pregnancies happen due to lack of responsibility. Contraception should be a must among young girls or for women who are not ready to raise a child. Generic birth control pills are very popular today. Also there are other ways to prevent pregnancy. Norplant is placed under the skin of the arm which prevents pregnancy up to 5 years. Depo-Provera is injected into the skin every 3 months that prevents ovulation. Morning after pill is a pill of a larger dose of birth control that tries to prevent fertilization after intercourse.
There are many risk involving abortions, and many women die trying to get abortions. According to pregnancycenters.org those risk include: heaving bleeding, infection, incomplete abortion (some parts of the fetus are mistakenly left inside the mother’s womb), sepsis, anesthesia complications, damage to the cervix, scarring of the uterine lining, perforation of the uterus (the uterus may be punctured or torn by the instruments involving abortion, and if that occurs then the removal of the uterus is done, known as an hysterectomy), death.
Having an abortion can cause emotional and physical effects on women. Some of these effects can last only a few days and some can last several years. These effects include: depression, guilt, eating disorders, stress, relationship problems, sexual dysfunctions, flashbacks, alcohol and drug abuse, and suicide. What is the point of getting an abortion if you could suffer from many health problems including death, and then possibly having all of these physical and emotional effects. The right thing to do is to have the baby. If you’re not ready, then there is always adoption available.
Many young girls who get abortions are just looking for a way out of their problem. They don’t realize the future, meaning that child they just aborted could have been the first person to cure cancer.
Every child deserves a chance in life. Even if you are not ready, you have to gain the responsibility and make the right decision. Your mother gave you a chance at life, now it is your turn to give your unborn child a chance. Everything happens for a reason and I am a firm believer of that. Hopefully by now I have persuaded all of you that abortion is NOT right and needs to be stopped.