I certainly supported a woman’s right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

—Ann B. Ross

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

-Frederica Mathewes-Green

I’m not writing to advocate Abortion, neither am i writing to say it’s wrong. It’s not for me to decide for anybody. It’s not up to me to make that decision for the woman. She knows better. Here are my thoughts.

Abortion is the deliberate medical process of ending a pregnancy so that it doesn’t result in the birth of a child. From this we know:

It’s a specialised procedure of Medical science. (…medical process)
A life is involved or would have been involded (…birth of a child)

A decision to be made ( …deliberate)

My Arguments from the points above

Point 1: I have a strong believe in the medical sciences. I marvel at the advancements in the medical field and the safety and ease with which previously unsafe procedures and surgeries can be carried out now. Things like heart transplant, brain surgery, now made to look relatively like Childs play. So you would assume that I have a 100 percent trust in the safety of abortions. Do I? How safe is the procedure really? What about complications? Some experts say about 88% of abortions are carried out safely. I assume then, that only some 12% have complications that could be life threatening; only some 12% might never have the ability to have children in the future, only some 12% could die from complications. I assume also that this 12% doesn’t account for those who would eventually suffer severe depression arising from guilt, persecution, shame: People who would eventually take their lives directly or indirectly either from suicide or from over dose, if they take to drugs. I think then, that the answer to the question of the safety of abortion depends on who is asking and what we hope to achieve with the answer. If a teenager comes to me and asks, I would say “abortion isn’t safe”. If an adult mother asks me, I would read her the statistics. Now, these answers could mean different things to that teen girl… it could mean ‘don’t even think about it’, or ‘you could die if you do it’. To the Adult mother, it means ‘I leave it to you to draw your conclusions from the statistics.’

Safe or not safe, something else needs to be considered. Something I suppose, is equally as important as safety when deciding on abortion. Is life involved? This takes me to point 2.

Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of the father nor of the mother. It is rather the life of a new human being with his own growth. It would never become human if it were not human already.
~ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration on Procured Abortion, 1974

Point 2: When does life actually begin? Do we consider something as alive if it has no consciousness of it’s existence. At what stage in the foetal development does it gain consciousness? If the gender isn’t known at an early stage and it can’t be called a she or he, does it make it an ‘it’? If it is an ‘it’, does it then mean it’s not a living thing? Aren’t the sperm cells and the ova living things? And if they are, what about when they have fused together, doesn’t it make the resulting feotus even more of a living thing. So many questions, but more and more people have come to realize that at conception, the feotus is already a living thing. Only a minor few still argue. For those of us who say life isn’t involved, very well then, all you have to worry about is the safety of the procedure.

For others, the bugging issues are: are there justifications in the termination of that life in the womb. Are there reasons strong enough for a mother to kill the baby she carries inside of her? I think it depends again...
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