DUCOT, CATHERINE DIANNE B.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

BS PSYCHOLOGY MA’AM. ISABEL FRANCISCO RABACA

Choose one case and apply the Double Effect Principles:

Cases (your other cases)

1. Abortion

2. War between two forces, the government force and the rebel forces.

3. Mercy killing

You may choose your own case…

Abortion

The Abortion is a common health intervention. It is safe when carried out using a
method recommended by WHO, appropriate to the pregnancy duration and by someone
with the necessary skills. This is the maternal death and morbidities. It can lead to physical
and mental health complications and social and financial burdens for women,
communities and health systems.

The abortion of women and girls' human rights, including the right to life, the right
to the best possible physical and mental health, the right to benefit from scientific
advancement and its realization, the right to freely and responsibly choose the number,
spacing, and timing of children, and the right to be free from torture and other cruel,
inhumane, and degrading treatment and punishment, are at risk when abortion care is
provided. Abortion stigma, lack of access to safe, inexpensive, timely, and respectful
abortion treatment, and other factors all pose dangers to women's physical and emotional
health over the course of their lives. The abortion is the only unplanned pregnancy option
that allows a woman to discontinue her pregnancy before the baby is born. Many women
choose abortion because they are not ready to experience pregnancy and childbirth.

For example is a rape or accidentally then the woman is a teenager who does not
know how to take care of a baby or they don’t have their responsibilities to live on their
womb so they have the big factor that the woman got the abortion this is the inaccessibility
of quality abortion care risks violating a range of human rights of women and girls,
including the right to life; the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health; the right to benefit from scientific progress and its realization; the right to decide
freely and responsibly on the number, spacing and timing of children; and the right to be
free from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment.

Therefore, I conclude that the abortion is an alternative to parenting the abortion

is an option for women who are not ready to raise a baby because she does not have the
time, money, health, stability or desire to raise a child at this point in her life. The unwanted
children, abortion may lead to lower crime rates and a reduced risk of maternal depression,
child abuse, physical violence during pregnancy and more.