How do you define life? For me, life is more than simply existing. Can we call an existence without love a life? A life without experiences, happiness and sadness, friendships and relationships, isn't a life. Life is not existing, it is what you do during your lifetime.
For this reason, I support abortion. I don't think that abortion should be the norm, something mundane; on the contrary I think that we should avoid it unless there is no other possibility, but it should be a possibility. I think that in many cases there are much better options. But the state can dictate to us neither what we do with our own bodies, nor the moral values that we adopt. Not everyone is catholic, and not everybody believes in God. God gave us freedom of choice, and outlawing abortion infringes this right
Many people are using this debate of abortion to try to ban it completely, even in cases of rape and incest. According to the NGO Human Rights Watch, nearly a million women are raped in Mexico every year. Denying these women the right to an abortion is a second assault; it is not better that hundreds or thousands of unwanted, unloved babies are born every year.
The world's leading scientists tell us that until at least 12 weeks in to the pregnancy, the fetus cannot feel, think, or recognise its own existence. Without these faculties, how can we recognise life? Without these abilities, a foetus is no more than a possibility of life, the same possibility that exists in every man and every woman.
Others cite the laws of the bible to justify the prohibition of abortion, but this is a contradiction. If we complied with all of the laws of the bible, we would be living as people lived thousands of years ago. Should we allow that people seek revenge “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”? Should we enforce that you can't dress yourself in cloth of two colours, and that nobody can work on the sabbath? These laws apply to an ancient society, completely different from our modern one, and whilst some of the biblical laws demonstrate moral values that we all ought to uphold, others don't work within a modern society; we cannot obey these antiquated laws. Laws must be adapted to the society in which we live.
It is certain that, for a catholic, abortion is a sin, but innumerable other sins are committed and forgiven every day. Why have the people and the church chosen this sin in particular to illegalise? Until the twelfth week, the foetus is not alive, and you cannot kill what is not living; abortion within this period harms nobody. It is also a sin to use contraception, but their use is widespread, and what is the abortion of an insensible foetus if not an extreme form of contraception?
If you don't agree with abortion you have the right to reject it, but those that support it, or that need it, must have the right to choose.
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wow that is really well written.
i believe people should have the right to refuse abortion and i also believe in some circumstances arbotion can be the best option, but the one thing i don’t agree with is late abortions as there is evidence that babies can survuve under 24 weeks outside the womb, me and my brother were born at 24 weeks!
sorry could’t help but ramble.
This is really good and you put your veiw point across very strongly
Yeah, I originally wrote it in Spanish for a newspaper I was working for in Mexico. It turned out to be a pretty unpopular opinion amongst the predominantly conservative readership! It was sparked by the fact that, as in Northern Ireland, at the time abortion was illegal in Mexico. As it turned out, they’ve just legalized it in the capital, and maybe the rest of the country will follow!