My Stand on Abortion
...terminating it does not really mean killing. This notion made abortion to be okay and the people doing it free from guilt. Also the environments surrounding them are big contributors to their decisions. In the USA and some parts of Europe, particularly in the UK, various drugs and paraphernalias for abortion are made available over-the-counter for everybody’s convenience. Due to developments in medical science, the procedures for abortion in healthcare systems are also less risky for the pregnant women. Obviously these set up encourage citizens to deal with unwanted pregnancy without much worry. There are instances wherein abortion is induced for medical reasons. A mother’s life could be endangered, thus a need for abortion. In this case, the beliefs are compromised in order to save a life that is more important and the law exempts this case from abortion. But there are circumstances in which the fetus is known to have disabilities beforehand, thus abortion is done so as not to give the human being a difficult life later. This could be unfair to that being since he has the right to live but cannot defend and decide for himself. And the autonomy to make that decision lies on the mother. Still there are some issues that need to be considered. If abortion is banned in areas where it is rampant, this could mean that women resorting to this decision have greater risks in their health since abortion is done in other means which is kept or illegal and not the safe medical procedures provided by the healthcare ...