Abortion is a
subject which has been overlooked throughout the last three or four decades due
to the controversy it has caused and of course it has a lot of opinions in
favor and against. Nevertheless, it would seem the controversy has not been
enough and abortion is still in the world’s front line.
If we have a look of abortion from a religious perspective a total reject of it is expected so there is not too much to say or discuss as religion has been always radical; If we look at it from a human right's perspective it is when the dividing opinions make this subject an interesting one to study.
Most people think abortion is a complete attack against human rights, and if we consider the fetus as a human life since it is conceived in fact it is an attack, but it is not a life full of misery, poverty and unhappiness an attack against human rights as well? I think it is. So at this point the question about whether abortion is good or not becomes
rhetorical.
In my view, pregnancy must be prevented to avoid situations in which you must probe your ethical principles, to do so, a very solid and rich education background in which government and population can rely on is necessary so as to reduce the rates of undesired pregnancies. But in cases in which women have been the victims of sexual abuse or in which you know since the early stages of pregnancy the child is going to have congenital or terminal disease, which could affect the normal course of their lives or even can result in the total inability to have a dignified life, should have an alternative.
If you can avoid the suffering to a future life which for sure is going to be condemned for themselves and for their parents, it is not fair to help it happen?.
At any rate, abortion would still be a problem if it was banned as it is in most of the countries because the official rates of abortion will decrease but the rates of illegal abortions are likely to increase dramatically, but this is not the worst think; Due to keeping abortion as an illegal practice there won’t be any regulations or guide lines
which can control and assure the running of it, therefore, this wouldn’t be a human rights issue anymore; It would be a public health issue which is even more serious in my humble opinion.
In other words, legal abortion is hundred times better, under specific situations as I wrote a couple of paragraphs before, than its prohibition. Sometimes there is a feeling of denial in front of this type of situation but this is more than a matter of ethics. It is about common good.
So as many people must be thinking in this moment in the world, there is not an accurate answer to aim to the solution of the problem, but one thing is sure abortions are not going to disappear; Legally or illegally abortions are here to stay, and the question is not how to eradicate them, the question should be, how to control them.
If we have a look of abortion from a religious perspective a total reject of it is expected so there is not too much to say or discuss as religion has been always radical; If we look at it from a human right's perspective it is when the dividing opinions make this subject an interesting one to study.
Most people think abortion is a complete attack against human rights, and if we consider the fetus as a human life since it is conceived in fact it is an attack, but it is not a life full of misery, poverty and unhappiness an attack against human rights as well? I think it is. So at this point the question about whether abortion is good or not becomes
rhetorical.
In my view, pregnancy must be prevented to avoid situations in which you must probe your ethical principles, to do so, a very solid and rich education background in which government and population can rely on is necessary so as to reduce the rates of undesired pregnancies. But in cases in which women have been the victims of sexual abuse or in which you know since the early stages of pregnancy the child is going to have congenital or terminal disease, which could affect the normal course of their lives or even can result in the total inability to have a dignified life, should have an alternative.
If you can avoid the suffering to a future life which for sure is going to be condemned for themselves and for their parents, it is not fair to help it happen?.
At any rate, abortion would still be a problem if it was banned as it is in most of the countries because the official rates of abortion will decrease but the rates of illegal abortions are likely to increase dramatically, but this is not the worst think; Due to keeping abortion as an illegal practice there won’t be any regulations or guide lines
which can control and assure the running of it, therefore, this wouldn’t be a human rights issue anymore; It would be a public health issue which is even more serious in my humble opinion.
In other words, legal abortion is hundred times better, under specific situations as I wrote a couple of paragraphs before, than its prohibition. Sometimes there is a feeling of denial in front of this type of situation but this is more than a matter of ethics. It is about common good.
So as many people must be thinking in this moment in the world, there is not an accurate answer to aim to the solution of the problem, but one thing is sure abortions are not going to disappear; Legally or illegally abortions are here to stay, and the question is not how to eradicate them, the question should be, how to control them.
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