“Position Paper about Abortion”

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive
outside the uterus. Historically, abortions have been attempted using herbal medicines, sharp
took, with force or through other traditional methods. In many places there is much debate over
moral, ethical and legal issues of abortion. Those who oppose abortion often maintain that an
embryo or fetus is a human with a right to life and may compare abortion to murder. If abortion
will be legalize, our natural right will be ignored which is the right to live and promote and
protect life, however, choosing abortion is the right thing to do to those who are force in
childbirth.

Abortion is a crime. Individual human life begins at fertilization, and therefore abortion is
the immoral killing of an innocent human being. It inflicts suffering on the unborn child, and
that, it is unfair to allow abortion when couples who cannot biologically conceive are waiting to
adopt. A push to legalize abortion in the Philippines is “unacceptable” because the country.
Abortion is not safe to women’s health. It is dangerous because it maintains the status who where
many medical providers threaten women with prosecution in cases of fetal death, spontaneous
abortion due to trauma from intimate partner violence and self-induced abortion. If ever abortion
will be legalized, it could provide safety because women can receive the proper health care
required to make sure they are safe and don’t sustain any life threatening injuries from an
unprofessional. However, abortion is not the option, thus pregnant women need support and
help. PPFI advocated more education programs, maternal and child care services and economic
and social development programs that would help stop “rape, incest, sex outside of marriage and
other causes of unwanted pregnancies”.

Abortion is not safe to women’s health because there are complications due to unsafe abortion.
There are also providers threaten women. Abortion is also considered as a crime because the
human life begins at fertilization, and killing the innocent human being is immoral. Babies are
human beings too and they have the right to live and this life must be protected. It is evident that
abortion has many risks to the woman that not only endangers her life but also the life of the
baby in pregnancies.

Submitted by: Edrianne Luise Parales