The article
I chose to discuss is in this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/mother/against_1.shtml
https://www.google.com.lb/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1242&bih=612&q=abortion&oq=abortion&gs_l=img.3..0l10.988.2796.0.3605.8.8.0.0.0.0.435.960.2-1j1j1.3.0....0...1.1.64.img..5.3.954.Mdc8S9dMz-0#imgrc=LhcDzT0QEBkB0M%3A
First, we
will start by saying that this article states arguments that oppose giving
women an automatic right to an abortion. And this is a fact that I completely
disagree with, because a baby, in order to be well raised in a good family,
should come when the parents-to-be are ready to welcome him and raise him well.
We have examples of teenagers that get pregnant either by having sex willingly
or by rape, and when their society doesn’t allow them to get an abortion, they
are stuck with the fact that they will deliver this baby and raise it even
though they are young, naïve, and not ready at all to fulfill their responsibilities.
And while we’re still talking about the teenagers, unmarried of course, we know
that the father of the child or the rapist won’t be present and won’t help with
raising the child, that’s why this can lead to emotionally and mentally
corrupted children with no fathers and little to no mother care. Besides,
abortion is a good way to apply and improve family planning in overpopulated
and also poor countries. If the parents can’t afford to have more children,
they can make use of abortion. I really don’t see why some people think it
should be illegal! In opposition to the common belief, we are NOT killing a
baby when aborting, it’s just a fetus or some divided cells not fully shaped
that we are getting rid of, and this is a fallacy that we find in the article when they say that abortion contradicts feminist principles which are the rights of GIRLS in their mom's bellies to live. When aborting, we don't even know if it was going to be a boy or a girl! This decision is not made by the society or the religion;
abortion is a medical need, it can be similar to a normal infection extraction
or whatever other medical procedure that should help us live in a better way. We
can cite the example of a raped woman that got pregnant unwillingly, it is of
course not her fault, so why can’t she just overcome this difficulty and abort?
Do you think that a raped teenager carrying a baby is more accepted and welcomed
in the society?
On the
other hand, everything is not just black or white… I should admit that the
anti-abortion groups also make some valid points. It is the case in the article
when the author says that abortion” does not free women” (Arguments against abortion , BBC) , because women don’t
need to have free access to abortion, instead they should have free access to
life resources such as medications, education that can help us realize her
responsibilities and be aware of the consequences of her acts (unsafe sex for
example), a stable income and even safety that can prevent her from being raped
or abused. Also sometimes, getting an abortion at a young age can lead to
health problems in the future, and the young lady can’t have children when the
time comes. And there’s one more very interesting point that is abortion sidesteps
oppression for women, for example when a sexually abused woman gets pregnant,
we focus on the pregnant-abortion side, instead of focusing on the “abused”
side. I think that here, this doesn’t mean that abortion shouldn’t be done, but
it means that we should focus more on the main causes that are leading women to
get abortions. This is where we will find the real social and individual
problems.
Work cited : Arguments against abortion, BBC-Ethics -archives.
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