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why abortion should not be legal in us

It should be legal. It is a matter of personal morality.

I'm not sure if you are asking for ideas because you need them for a debate or a persuasive essay. At any rate, I'll offer some points that would support the question you are asking.

1. Abortion has caused a serious rift in American society, even leading to deadly violence.
2. Many women who undergo abortions report afterward that they wish they had not done so.
3. Abortions are surgical procedures that can be dangerous to the women who have them done.

Just an addition to #3: Legalized abortion has forced a double-standard upon our legal society.  If a woman can abort a fetus, and it's legal--not murder, how can a person who murders a pregnant woman be charged with double homicide?  There is no logical answer for this standard.

Additionally, some leading advocates of abortion have used the practice in the United States to control the population of specific ethnic groups.  For example, Margaret Sanger, a proponent of legalized abortion, specified that abortion clinics be located in areas with a high minority population.  This disturbing truth is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, China's one-child policy, and other one-race superiority groups.

Indeed, it is a complex issue.  I think that the primary distinction here is whether one sees it as an issue primarily concerned of the life of the fetus (in which case one would be against the idea of abortion for it is taking a life) or if one is an advocate of personalized choice (in which case abortion is an issue of choice for the mother.)  I would say that the issue is so challenging because to decipher through the layers of misinformation both sides posit against the other is a notion that complicates an already intricate issue.

In reply to #3:

I would have to respectfully disagree with your points.  The discussion question seems to be asking for evidence to support why abortion should be illegal in the United States.

1. You can't make things illegal because they cause a "rift" in society.  If so, you would have to outlaw political parties!
2. Many women may regret abortions, but many do not.  You can't make a law against abortions because people may regret them.  If so, you would have to outlaw one night stands for the same reason!
3. Just because a surgical procedure is dangerous (which is, by the way, a relative term) doesn't mean it should be illegal.  If so, you would have to outlaw most operations!

Anyhow, I just wanted to put my two cents in.

Abortion for the sake of birth control is immoral and should be illegal.  Anyone who does not want to become pregnant in this time period should either be celibate or practice other birth control methods such as the pill, condoms, diaphram, etc. or a combination of any of the above.

I do not agree with abortion for rape victims, either.  It is not the child's fault it was conceived.  While some may argue that it is cruel and unusual to require the victim to carry the child to term, it is just as cruel and unusual to abort the fetus.  Believe me, the woman will be haunted either way--reliving the rape and later reliving and remembering the abortion.  If the victim can not or will not rear the child, she should give the child up for adoption--it is a better solution all around.

If the mother's life is in danger, and a choice has to be made between the mother and the child, the doctor should do what is necessary to save the life of the strongest person.  In this case, most probable is the mother.  A child needs care from an adult for many years before being able to rear him or herself.  This is the only time I believe abortion should be employed.

It is a decision between a person and a doctor, and the government should not be involved with medical decisions.  If a young girl is raped and the family decides that they do not want their young girl keeping this baby then they should be able to have that choice.  Also if a woman has the possibility of having complications during birth, and her health would be affected by having the baby, then that should be a medical decision between that woman and doctor.  Abortion should not be a political issue.

The reason abortion is controversial is that some people believe it is murder and some do not.  If we all agreed on this, the legality would not be an issue.  In order to satisfy the question of whether it is murder or not, one needs to determine whether the life that is taken is human. 

Although all will agree that it is indeed human (what else could it be? A dog embryo is a dog, a cat embryo is a cat), many will argue that it is not human ENOUGH at certain (or all) stages of pregnancy. 

The reason that most evangelical Christians and Catholic stake the pro-life side of the abortion debate is that they believe that life begins at conception.  Not life, like a plant has life, but life, like divinely-breathed life.  This comes from Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." and Psalm 139:13 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb."

Both of these verses are beautiful and poetic and illustrate a wonderful concept, a concept of divine value, even when earthly value seems unapparent. 

But their beauty doesn't make the Bible a rulebook for those who don't believe.  The hard point for unbelievers is the difficulty in determining exactly when a fetus is human enough to make its intentional death unappealing.  Lately, technology has increased our knowledge of embryonic development and we realize more every day how "human" a child is at all stages of pregnancy.

There is hardly any legal provision which cannot be and has not been abused. So that is not reason enough to oppose an act of law if it is found otherwise needful. Abortion should be legalised primarily to help out young girls in a dire situation of unwanted motherhood. As long as it is not legalised, many such girls would search for clandestine clinics and quack personnel for relief, thereby endangering their lives. The traditional attitude towards abortion is too traditional to cope up with the hard realities of to-day. Once legalised, better services to make abortion safer would also be available.