Abortion Essay Essay Research Paper Religion Ethics

Abortion Essay Essay, Research Paper

Religion Ethics Essay

Today abortion is one of the options available to woman who have become pregnant, but to not wish to keep it. So the activists say. Today abortion is a very serious social and moral issue, but it doesn’t just relate to woman who don’t wish to proceed with pregnancy, it relates to young teenage mothers incapable of giving birth. It relates to problems that may arise within the pregnancy, and it relates to a serious matter of whether the mother or child will survive labour or not. What many activists don’t understand is that abortion is in many ways a very justifiable option for woman to use in terms of medical situations.

Today there are many debates on whether abortion should be legal or not and both sides have very convincing arguments in relation to their view of this procedure. Firstly, the reasons to be against abortion are of both moral and lawful reasons. Many believe that abortion is wrong because it is blatant murder of a life. This is true, but many people then debate on when the fetus is considered human. The church and a large majority of scientists say that fetus is considered human the very instance that it is conceived.

In a legal case Roe vs Wade, the word ‘person’ is meaning everyone that is alive outside of the mother’s womb, so therefore the fetus is not human until it is able to exist outside the womb. And in many criminal cases the word ‘person’ is used to label one that was born alive. So there is much debate of this meaning. I feel that every individual has there own meaning of human or person and they should act in relation to their definition and this may mean that many feel that the fetus is not human and therefore abortion is an option.

However, this law has taken a dramatic twist and there is now a statute in relation to unfair abortion of a fetus in the United States. This means that the fetus is now as equal or more important than the mother is. However, the court must grant personhood to the fetus for abortion to be considered murder.

The church is strongly against abortion, but if you read Genesis 2:7 it states, “The Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became living soul.” This taken literally means that a fetus is not a person, it is a soul until it can take its own first breath. Also, the Bible never actually mentions the term abortion. So, how can we initially follow the church’s teachings when it isn’t defined or presented within the teachings.

Another reason for being an activist towards abortion is of the complications that may arise after. It has been proven that many women have suffered bleeding and severe pain after and abortion. Although most follow the check up procedures some develop a problem, which may leave them unable to conceive again or they may have trouble with future births. This is a very sad result from this procedure and many women suffer ‘post abortion syndrome.’ This means that the woman will go into deep depression and suffer guilt, disappointment, and regret.

There are myths that abortion can lead to breast cancer due to the medications and instruments used. This has been proven to scare some woman out of having an abortion. And another myth is that most woman getting abortions are doing it as a means of birth control, which is considered by me pathetic and a sad display of conscience by people.

An interesting argument however, is that the fetus can feel pain during the abortion. Dr Bernard Nathanson’s video The Silent Scream has received masses of attention, but many of his colleagues and other medical staff claim that this is impossible. This brings us back to when an individual considers the fetus human. If a person considers the fetus human from the beginning, then doesn’t that mean that it has all the feelings, emotions and attributes of a human. Therefore leading to an abortion causing pain and hence considered murder.

There is also the high risk of safety when an abortion is carried out. Many believe that all abortions are unsafe. This is wrong because there are two ways to have an abortion. They are illegally and legally. Illegal abortion is one that involves a non-qualified person to operate or give drugs to a patient that are incorrect or that the patient may be allergic to. There may be a problem with the method used, which may lead to a tear in the cervix, infections, blood clots, a tear in the uterus wall and so on.

A legal abortion is one that is conducted in a hospital with all the correct equipment and correct methods used for the patient. The patient can either have a surgical procedure dependant as to how far into the pregnancy she is or may just need to take two medications that will kill off the fetus. These are significantly safer and there is a lower risk of complications occurring.

There are also the reasons for abortion and many of the above that are used shouldn’t be because they are not able to give a justifiable reason. When a person is raped and a child is conceived, why shouldn’t the woman be able to have a legal and safe abortion. The arguments that it is a child are fair, but shouldn’t a child be made out of love from both partners and not just because of some disgusting and meaningless venture that unfortunately occurred. That woman should have every right becaus