Abortion has been accepted by the United States of America since the monumental Roe v. Wade case in the early 1970s, but it is still a very controversial issue. Many people are for and against abortion. Some say that the child in the womb deserves the opportunity to live, while others believe that a mother has the right to choose whether her fetus can live or die. Other abortion supporters argue that abortion helps keep the threat of overpopulation low. They also say that in many extreme cases it is in the best interests of the mother and baby for the fetus to be aborted. Abortion helps keep crime rates low, so it should remain legal, they also say. I believe abortion should be banned. I firmly believe that pregnant women who want to abort their baby/fetus should not be allowed to do so. First, should one person be allowed to control another's destiny? Technically, abortion is murder, as the baby is killed on purpose. Some say that in the first days or weeks of pregnancy (maybe even in the first two months) the baby is not actually alive; it's just a bunch of cells. However, the fetus breathes and gets nutrients from the mother before she even knows she is pregnant. Before long, the fetus also takes on human characteristics: a head, hands, legs, arms, feet and a torso. Therefore, abortion should be legalized only when murder becomes legal, because abortion is murder. Abortion supporters keep saying: what about radical cases? If a single mother living in poverty is pregnant and cannot provide for her baby, should it still be born? If a child were to be born with a disability, should parents be allowed to kill/abort the child out of mercy? I…middle of paper…would be angry if they knew their baby was aborted (killed) without their consent or knowledge. Therefore, it is obvious that abortion should be banned and made illegal. Murder is a capital crime, so why should abortion, which is even worse, remain legal? Some people killed deserve it, while many others who were killed lived immoral or corrupt lives. Why should an innocent child who has done nothing wrong be denied the opportunity to live? If Bill Gates had been aborted, perhaps we would no longer have PCs in the world. If he had been denied the right to life, the world may have been denied the privilege of having a computer in homes around the world in addition to having Microsoft. Maybe someone who could have made the world better was aborted. Who knows? The main point is that abortion is murder and no human being has the right to decide who lives or dies.