The Tragedy of Adolescent Abortion In today's society, television and the media teach teenagers that premarital sex is not a bad thing. This problem is leading to many teenage pregnancies, which then lead to abortion. Adolescents all over the world face numerous challenges in their daily lives. Sex is depicted as extremely attractive in the media, but what they don't show are pregnancies and the unborn child who never asked to be created being discarded. Abortion is in no way acceptable, it is the murder of an unborn child. Many doctors will say that abortion is not a bad thing and it is not murder. They argued that it is just an embryo and is not yet a baby. In the book The Terrible Choice: The Abortion Dilemma, Glanville Williams, a well-known English criminologist, was quoted as saying that abortion should be treated like a tonsillectomy. It is a minor operation to remove unwanted or harmful "tissue growth". Both tissues are alive and contain material substances, chemical compounds, DNA and RNA molecules. They can vary slightly, but are mostly matter composed of cells made of chemicals (1-2). The only difference between a tonsillectomy and an abortion is that the fetus can grow and develop into a human being much like us. Joseph Farah wrote an article about abortion in The Human Life Review. In this, he quoted Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who says: "Children are not really people, because they do not have the capacity to reflect on (themselves) as a continuous site of consciousness, to formulate and savor plans for the future, fear death, and express the choice not to die. And here's the problem: our immature newborns do not possess these traits any more than mice. Several moral philosophers have concluded that newborns are not people. and therefore neonatalicide should not be classified as murder" (no page). Farah's article also examines the views of Michael Tooley, a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado. He believes that "there should be a certain period of time, such as a week after birth, as the interval during which infanticide will be permitted" (no page). until the child learns to use certain expressions" (no page).