Abortion is a vicious form of inflicting murder on an innocent, unborn, defenseless child. Women abort babies daily due to unplanned/unwanted pregnancies, rape and being forced by parents when they are minors. Abortion became legal in 1973 after Roe v. Wade declared it legal. According to Deborah S. Romaine, “The Constitution of the United States protects both expressed, or enumerated, and unexpressed, or unenumerated, rights.” (1) And the jury at that trial believed that abortion was a right for any mother who needed or wanted to use it. Even today people argue and debate whether abortion should be legal or not. Abortion is a controversial issue that many people believe is evil because it takes an innocent human life. Killing a child is unethical and completely unfair to the fetus who is the victim. According to Margaret Sykes in her article “Rape Justifies Abortion,” “If a fourteen-year-old [rape victim]…can't have an abortion without being dragged through the courts…and having people trying to stop her left and right , who can do it?” (Sykes 130) Sykes believed that the 14-year-old girl who had been raped had every right to abort her child. She believed that abortion should be legal for rape victims, regardless of what stage of pregnancy they were in. He didn't even believe that adoption was an alternative to murdering children. Sykes further complicates the issue when he explains how foster children didn't believe they could raise a child on their own, but they also believed that giving it to someone they didn't know was a bad idea. Unplanned and unwanted pregnancies are also reasons why women abort babies. According to afterabortion.org, “A study of the medical records of 56,741 California doctors…half of paper…womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." (Psalm 139:13). Both of these verses speak of God creating the child and watching over him even before he was born. The Bible clearly views the unborn as a person Genesis 25:21-22 says, “Rebekah became pregnant. The children wrestled together in her womb." (Genesis 25:21-22). Luke 1:41 says, "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped in her womb..." (Luke 1:41). Both of these verses clearly see the unborn as a person; neither verse refers to the unborn as anything except a child, says Psalm 51:5: "Surely I was a sinner at birth, a sinner from the time that my mother conceived . me." (Psalm 51:5). This says that a child is sinful from the moment of conception, but how can something that is not yet a person be sinful? Abortion breaks one of the simplest moral standards: "You shall not homocide."