Abortion is the deliberate bringing to an end of a human pregnancy. Many people see aborton as a sin which cannot be condone as abortion is more than murdering someone. Abortion is like taking a helpless life away, even before the foetus can survive on its own. However, generally, I am not against abortion.
There are several reasons behind my stand. Firstly, we must know that normal human beings have conscience. They know how to think. They know what is right and wrong and what is good and bad for them. As abortion is a serious matter, it is important to think over and over again on whether their decisions made is correct. Human beings have feelings. No one will like to kill their own children. It must have been something big or serious that force them to do so. Since abortion is the most inhumane way of killing someone, the sense of guilt they feel before or after abortion has already shown us that they have conscience. Imagine a woman who is in the operating theatre, going to abort the foetus. Just as the surgeon is going to anaesthetize her, she jumps out from the bed and decides not to abort the foetus. This could have shown that she has struggled a lot before coming to this decision. I will not be against her even if she later on decides or that her final decision is to abort the foetus. Thus i am not against abortion as normal human beings must have think from all aspects before they can come up upon this decision.
Social factor is another reason. In United States of America, bearing a child before one is married and raising it single-handedly is nothing big to fuss about. However this may not be the case in certain countries. Having a child before one is married is condemned in certain countries, especially conservative ones. One will be looked down by her other villagers if they know that she is pregnant before she is married. They will tend to classify her as an unfaithful person, giving away her chastity before her nuptical. This problem can be resloved if the man and the pregnant lady proceeds with their wedding. However, if the woman is pregnant and that she cannot finds the man or that the man had run away without bearing any responsibility, in that conservative society of hers, the best choice may be to abort the child. If this child is being born to earth, he will have to face the humiliation due to his mother's deed. Why let a child suffer for what the adults did?
Looking into other cases like pregnation due to rape, abortion may be the best choice. This life will only serve as a reminder of the ordeal and torment. If the life is to be shown no love, then why should it be born? Should it be born to suffer?
Lastly, economic factor is one of my reasons why i am not against abortion. In exterme cases like poverty, I may recommend abortion as it frees one from an extra financial burden. If one cannot feed herself, how is she able to feed her child? In Africa, many mothers still bore their children despite of poverty. However, poverty can kill a child even before he reaches the age of six. You watch him live till his bones are going to protrude out of his meat, and then watch him die. Is it fun to see him suffer like this? Again, is it fun to let him suffer with you? One may think of sending the child for adoption but why should one bore him if one does not want to foot the responsibility as a mother? What rights have one got to let the child suffer in agony later on if he knows he is being abandoned?
However in some cases or situations, i think that abortion is not a solution. For Roman Catholics, because of religious purposes, abortion is advised against. They believe that abortion is taking away part of God's creation. If a Roman Catholic aborts her child, she is deemed as disrespecting God or defying God's order. She will be chastised by her priest. Perhaps in this case, what she can do is to send her child away for adoption.
In another case where one has the financial ability to raise a child but wants to abort it just for the reason of unplanned pregnancy, I will think that abortion is not a very good solution to the problem. Is unplanned pregnancy something big enough to force one to go for abortion? One is not in extreme cases like poverty. Moreover, one has the financial ability to bring a child up. Worse still, if one has the financial ability to buy a car or to raise a pet, why not a child?
In conclusion, i am not really against abortion as i feel that the idea of abortion depends on the situations one faces. Most importantly, no matter what the choices are, it still lies in the hands of the mother.
There are several reasons behind my stand. Firstly, we must know that normal human beings have conscience. They know how to think. They know what is right and wrong and what is good and bad for them. As abortion is a serious matter, it is important to think over and over again on whether their decisions made is correct. Human beings have feelings. No one will like to kill their own children. It must have been something big or serious that force them to do so. Since abortion is the most inhumane way of killing someone, the sense of guilt they feel before or after abortion has already shown us that they have conscience. Imagine a woman who is in the operating theatre, going to abort the foetus. Just as the surgeon is going to anaesthetize her, she jumps out from the bed and decides not to abort the foetus. This could have shown that she has struggled a lot before coming to this decision. I will not be against her even if she later on decides or that her final decision is to abort the foetus. Thus i am not against abortion as normal human beings must have think from all aspects before they can come up upon this decision.
Social factor is another reason. In United States of America, bearing a child before one is married and raising it single-handedly is nothing big to fuss about. However this may not be the case in certain countries. Having a child before one is married is condemned in certain countries, especially conservative ones. One will be looked down by her other villagers if they know that she is pregnant before she is married. They will tend to classify her as an unfaithful person, giving away her chastity before her nuptical. This problem can be resloved if the man and the pregnant lady proceeds with their wedding. However, if the woman is pregnant and that she cannot finds the man or that the man had run away without bearing any responsibility, in that conservative society of hers, the best choice may be to abort the child. If this child is being born to earth, he will have to face the humiliation due to his mother's deed. Why let a child suffer for what the adults did?
Looking into other cases like pregnation due to rape, abortion may be the best choice. This life will only serve as a reminder of the ordeal and torment. If the life is to be shown no love, then why should it be born? Should it be born to suffer?
Lastly, economic factor is one of my reasons why i am not against abortion. In exterme cases like poverty, I may recommend abortion as it frees one from an extra financial burden. If one cannot feed herself, how is she able to feed her child? In Africa, many mothers still bore their children despite of poverty. However, poverty can kill a child even before he reaches the age of six. You watch him live till his bones are going to protrude out of his meat, and then watch him die. Is it fun to see him suffer like this? Again, is it fun to let him suffer with you? One may think of sending the child for adoption but why should one bore him if one does not want to foot the responsibility as a mother? What rights have one got to let the child suffer in agony later on if he knows he is being abandoned?
However in some cases or situations, i think that abortion is not a solution. For Roman Catholics, because of religious purposes, abortion is advised against. They believe that abortion is taking away part of God's creation. If a Roman Catholic aborts her child, she is deemed as disrespecting God or defying God's order. She will be chastised by her priest. Perhaps in this case, what she can do is to send her child away for adoption.
In another case where one has the financial ability to raise a child but wants to abort it just for the reason of unplanned pregnancy, I will think that abortion is not a very good solution to the problem. Is unplanned pregnancy something big enough to force one to go for abortion? One is not in extreme cases like poverty. Moreover, one has the financial ability to bring a child up. Worse still, if one has the financial ability to buy a car or to raise a pet, why not a child?
In conclusion, i am not really against abortion as i feel that the idea of abortion depends on the situations one faces. Most importantly, no matter what the choices are, it still lies in the hands of the mother.