Arkansas lawmakers back nation's most restrictive abortion bill

Arkansas proposes a new law in which abortion is not allowed once the fetus is 12 months old. As a result, two sides has come up, one supporting this law and one going against it. Some people believe that every woman should have their own right and choice, as stated in the U.S Constitution while others believe that it is important to protect unborn children.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/07/politics/arkansas-abortion/?hpt=zite_zite8_featured

This article depicts many struggles. There's the political issue of passing this law, and there are those who are for or against it. Abortion has always been very controversial for there isn't any set lines for it and there are many opinions. Is abortion, essentially killing a life? At what point would an unborn child be considered "living"? According to the article, it would be after 12 months, and it has been verified that the fetus has a heartbeat, but is that true and acceptable, however? Does it count if the unborn isn't actually delivered into this world? And then there's the issue of rights. Is it a women's right to decide at any point of her pregnancy to get an abortion? There are just so many factors that go into this topic...none of which have any concrete lines that we can draw. 

I personally believe that abortion is, maybe not killing, but the ending of a life...that couldn't even begin, it's the crushing of the potential to live. From whatever scenario of intercourse that had to have happen, in the end a woman was impregnated. An egg was fertilized. But, no matter what I can't just look at it as, "at this stage it's technically not a life". Yes, I guess it's not, but it would have been. The potential, potential, potential, potential, is what I absolutely cannot let go of. That fertilized egg had the potential to cure cancer, to travel space, to do many many great things. That fertilized egg had so many possibilities that was just ended before it could even develop to anything. Before it could even develop fingers, a brain, a heart, before it could pop out and take its first breath, gasp and squint at the illuminating lights of our world and give out its first cry. Yes, it has just as likely of a chance to become a potential danger, to do many many bad things for the world is unfortunately filled with much negativity as well. But, I believe that every unborn baby should have the chance to grow up and explore the mucky ground after a rainfall, feel the rough city concretes, run their little paws through soft cotton, bite as many objects as they possibly could before crying from pain. Crawl, waddle, stumble, fall, get up, laugh, and cry. One may argue, what if I know this child will not get any of these chances, that they will grow up, and live up miserably? Then, well, I say to you, how do you know that will happen? I reiterate, the potential, is something that will always be there. If these are your thoughts, please do whatever it is in your power to try and ensure as much as possible that your child will get these opportunities. But what if there is a mother out there who does not love their child, who doesn't give one bit of affection to the baby growing inside of her? Then, I don't know. I really don't know. There are many starving, suffering children in this world. There are many many scenarios that happen all around us. There isn't a single out there that exists...that I could even begin to comprehend...there are just too many complexities. But, to me, abortion is to deprive a child of living itself...And if I were personally in such a situation...I don't think I would ever be able to justify that to myself.