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Blog Stage Eight: Pro-life

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In her Blog Stage 7 post , Hailey Casey of the blog Politics Around the United States argues about how she is pro-choice. She makes serval points as to why she believes abortion should be legal. For example, she claims that if a woman has been raped then she should be able to have an abortion. Hailey believes it should be easier for women to get an abortion and that they shouldn’t be questioned about their decision. She also believes it is not up to the father to make that decision. I would have to disagree with Hailey. First, murder is illegal. The definition of murder is “the unlawful killing of another human being without justification or excuse.” I believe an embryo is the first stage of life. For example from the textbook Medical Embryology, "The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which two highly specialized cells, the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female, unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote." This