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Essay / Pros and Cons of Abortion - 2395
In Texas, when you get your license, you have the opportunity to verify whether or not you want to be an organ donor. If you choose not to and die, a doctor cannot go into your body and harvest your organs for someone who is alive and needs a heart. A corpse, which most people believe to be just a dead bone. The person who is not there has no more rights than a woman in Texas. Even if their organs were usable and healthy, they could not be passed to a living person who must be saved without their consent. Women have fewer rights to bodily autonomy than corpses, which brings me to my next point. Life happens from conception and abortion is murder. Between conception and division, the cluster of cells is called a zygote. From then until 8 weeks, it is called an embryo. This “life” consists only of cells and then a tadpole. This is not compatible with life at this point and according to 2012 CDC reports, 73.2% of abortions occurred in week 8 and below. There is no way for this “baby” to survive even with a detectable heartbeat, it is the mother who keeps him alive. The next popular point on abortion is adoption; women should just give the baby up for adoption. Yes, that would be ideal, but most women choose abortion because they have no other resources. Again, it comes down to low-income women. These people may not have