Abortion

To many, abortion is a kind of no man’s land when it comes to polite conversation. It seems difficult to find common ground on the topic of abortion, between pro-life and pro-choice. The issue of abortion can inspire a great deal of passion and a serious block to open exchange of ideas. However, abortion may be a more complex issue than many are willing to admit.

 

One difficult inherent in the abortion debate is that those who are pro-choice and those who are pro-life are often arguing about entirely different subjects. Supporters of abortion rights generally base their position on the rights of a woman over her own body, while pro-life believers focus their opinions on the morality of the act of abortion itself.

 

There is still some common ground. In cases of rape or danger to the mother, the moral analysis of abortion may be more bendable. Those who are pro-choice may often understand a personal rejection of abortion as respectable. In too many instances, women may not have control over their own bodies or reproductive choices, and abortion can be a viable solution. Not many would recommend using abortion simply as birth control, with a lack of feeling or responsibility. Although the debate may be presented as a black or white issue, the discussion of abortion must include a great deal of gray area. There is rarely a simple answer for anyone, and abortion rights are not necessarily a flippant disregard for life, but giving women choices and control over their own bodies.

The abortion rights councils and the women’s rights councils have been squaring off for decades over a woman’s right to have an abortion. It is a curious argument, that anyone would want the government interfering with anyone’s body. The right of the unborn is a totally different subject because medical science has determined that a viable fetus can be counted after five months. Until that time, medical science won’t recognize a fetus as a person. I suppose it is fair to say that under other circumstances the mother bonds with the fetus much earlier than five months, and movement can be felt earlier, but medical science has narrowed it down to realistic time frame based on realistic, not emotional, evidence.

In the world that we live in we value our privacy as we value our ability to decide what to do each and every day with our own body. We take that body to work, we choose whether or not to feed it breakfast, and we decide whether we are truly ready to bring new life into the world. When you force a woman to carry to term you change her body, you “scar” her in sense even if she doesn’t keep the baby. She will always carry the physical reminders, have to explain to physical lovers, and look at the physical evidence every day of her life that her body for nine grueling months belonged to the government. We wouldn’t ask her to surrender her body for cancer, for contagious diseases, and certainly not even for HIV. So why would we expect her to surrender her body to the government for the purpose of avoiding an abortion, the most private and personal choice that could ever be made?

Many young girls don’t understand what abortion is. They often underestimate its threats. They fail to practice safe sex because they think that everything will be ok per se. The majority of girls have a very obscure understanding of the whole seriousness of the problem.  They are too light-hearted and shallow-minded and this is often the main reason of all their problems. They easily fall in love, they easily make mistakes as well. They rely on those boys, who are absolutely unreliable. These boys don’t think much about the consequences of unsafe sex as it is not a problem for them. Girls are very often romantic and think about people much better than they are in reality. Girls fail to understand the real intentions of all those rogues, which they meet. These rogues take an advantage of girls’ stupidity and trustfulness and do their part. This leads inevitably to abortions as at a young age it is very easy to become pregnant. Girls try not to think about bad things and when they face the stark reality of life, they can’t cope with this situation and make more mistakes. At first, they decide not to tell it to their mothers. Then they can’t hide this any more as the fact of their pregnancy becomes discernable. When the belly is large, it is tool late to make an abortion. I think that our society should be more tolerant to these girls, as the fact that they are blamed by our society aggravates their situation. these girls are not villains, they are victims.