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Two Sides of Abortion among Young Women: Proposition and Opposition

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 Two Sides of Abortion among Young Women: Proposition and Opposition

Why do people go for an abortion? Is abortion immoral or a right? Do you think abortion

should be legal or illegal? There are many different perspectives on abortion. It is thought to be

one of the most important topic to be covered. The issue of abortion remains highly controversial

as there are contrast in opinions considering different factors such as human rights, morality,

religion, and ethical reasons.

As stated in Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, abortion is the termination of

pregnancy whether natural or caused artificially that is accompanied by, results in, or follows

death of the fetus. It is also called the voluntary abortion; the removal of an embryo or fetus from

the uterus in order to end pregnancy as reported in Dictionary.com.

While people who support access to safe, legal abortion frequently identify as pro-choice,

those people who oppose abortion typically refer to themselves as pro-life. Disagreements

between this two movements are still on-going causing a debate between the opposition and

proposition side of abortion.

The pro-life side that opposes abortion stands on their beliefs due to various instances. In

a religious view, abortion is religiously a sin. The Catholic Church has a very negative stance on

abortion because it is immoral to kill a fetus. I consider abortion to be a grave sin as a catholic.

"Thou shalt not kill," states one of the Lord's Ten Commandments, and in my opinion, abortion

constitutes a killing. Only God has the authority to take our lives because only he gave us life.

Furthermore, under Spanish colonial rule, the Penal Code of 1870 made abortion illegal

in the Philippines. The criminal provisions were incorporated into the Revised Penal Code,

which was passed in 1930 during the US occupation of the Philippines and is still in use today.
We can say that common sense tells us that abortion is the killing of an innocent person who

lacks the ability to defend himself. That is why we have this law article, to teach society to face

reality rather than face it in court. Abortion will never be legal in this case.

They may be leading women into a grave danger by performing legal abortion for women

who seek it. The World Health Organization (WHO) defends unsafe abortion as "A procedure

for terminating an unintended pregnancy carried out either by persons lacking the necessary

skills or in an environment that does not conform to minimal medical standards, or both.”. This

means that having an abortion that is not legal is just straight up a crime. Unsafe abortions can

have fatal consequences, so much so that unsafe abortions are the third leading cause of maternal

deaths worldwide and lead to an additional five million largely preventable disabilities,

according to WHO.

At last, when you are in a relationship, having intercourse is not something you should do

recklessly. That's why we have contraceptives, so that you won't regret what you have done and

later on, if it paid off, you will just abort the fetus. Because, in the first place, he didn't choose to

be born. You made him, unintentionally or not. He has no idea that he would be born in this

world wherein his parents are unsure of having him. Whether you want it or not, keep the baby.

Give him a world that he deserves. Abortion is not always a solution.

The pro-choice which proposes abortion screams otherwise. People have abortions all the

time regardless of what the law says. Regardless whether abortion is legal or not legal, people are

still able to acquire and access abortion services. When government restricts access to abortion,

people are resort to clandestine, unsafe abortions, which brings us into conclusion that

criminalizing abortion does not stop abortions, it just makes abortion less safe.
 Access to safe abortion is a matter of human right. Human right law clearly spells out that

decision about your body are yours alone – this is what is known as bodily autonomy. Forcing

someone to carry on an unwanted pregnancy, or forcing them to seek out an unsafe abortion, is a

violation of their human rights. Access to abortion is therefore fundamentally linked to

protecting and upholding the human rights of women, girls, and thus for achieving social and

gender justice.

One of the arguments in favor of abortion is that the fetus is not necessarily a ‘person’

with the right to live. A collection of human cells does not have the right to live just because it is

of the human species, otherwise amputating a limb would be murder. A collection of human cells

only has the right to live once it has reaches a particular stage that makes is a ‘person’ and when

it possesses certain properties that make it a ‘person’ such as thinking and reasoning.

Most importantly, abortion should be legalized in cases such as pregnancy as a result of

crimes like rape, incest, or child abuse. Abortion where the child would have an unacceptable

quality of life and for social reasoning that includes poverty, unavailability of a mother to cope

with a child, and teenage pregnancy that could potentially ruin the mother’s life.

Taking everything into account, abortion debate is very sensitive and painful for young

women who find themselves facing the dilemma. Factors such as religious practices that is based

on Biblical reasons, the danger of performing abortion, abortion as a consequence of

recklessness, abortion as murder, and on the other side; abortion as human rights, a fetus is not a

person, abortion is inevitable (legal or not), and pregnancy as result of a crime is what divides

people’s opinions in abortion. In the end, it should be dependent upon the circumstances, it is not

okay to normalize abortion but that doesn’t mean it should be impermissible and illegal but

should be taken into deep understanding and deliberate consideration.

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