Abortion - Can you hear babies screaming? On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion. When ruling that abortion was legal, the court not only gave women the right to choose, but also gave unborn babies the right to die. Since that day, millions upon millions of unborn children have been torn apart, burned with saline solutions, and sucked from their mothers' wombs. With every abortion that occurs, another inaudible cry of the unborn child is silenced and that child's rights are taken away. If someone were to ask anyone if the murder was a mistake, the general answer would be yes. When that same person is asked if abortion is murder, the answer may be yes, but the answer is most likely no. Why do most people think murder is wrong, but disagree that abortion is murder? The reason for this contradiction is that most people believe that the unborn child is not a human being, but an organ or part of the woman's body, which would make aborting a child equivalent to removal of an appendix. This early life problem stems from the inconsistencies that arise from Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court interrupted this with the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments stating that a woman has the right to an abortion. On that day, however, the court did not rule on when a human being's life begins. If society is to assume that a fetus is a human being the second it leaves the womb, then the unborn baby three minutes after birth is an ape. When an unborn baby is aborted, society must realize that it is not an organ, but a living human being. This would make abortion wrong because, according to the law, no one has the right to take a person's life. While many people view cases of unwanted pregnancy due to rape or incest as acceptable, they need to understand that the child is not the crime. The societal reason behind this is: why should the woman suffer the pain and memory that pregnancy brings? Even if abortion cases