Discourage Abortion, but Keep it Legal
How can I justify combing two seemingly incompatible trains of thought on abortion? How can I rectify my moral beliefs with this controversial legal issue?
Why I'm against abortion. Pro-Choice proponents say that women have the right to choose what is done with their bodies. That much is true - and men have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies, as well. As adult men and women, we have the right to eat the way we want, arrange our hair the way we want, adorn our bodies with tattoos and piercings if we desire, and even surgically alter our bodies as we see fit. We have the right to do with our bodies what we will - but NOT to impose our will on other bodies. But abortion affects an unborn body - one with brain waves and heartbeats. The body may be growing in the woman, but it does not belong TO the woman. The unborn child, therefore, is not the woman's body. Ending the life of a developing child is wrong. It is murder.
Why abortion should remain legal. Here's where my opinion gets a little complicated. I believe in the sanctity in human life. I hold it sacred. And, as mentioned above, I strongly believe abortion is murder. Since Roe v. Wade, however, abortion has been legal, regulated, and therefore usually performed in clean, sanitary environments using medically approved procedures. This, obviously, has been a good thing for mothers who are terminating their unwanted unborn children. Prior to Roe v. Wade, abortions were often performed in unsanitary, unclean environments - sometimes by untrained practitioners using barbaric techniques. Many women died as a result. Returning abortions to the back alley, black market, unregulated environment would like mean a return to similar results. This was - and would again be - a bad thing.
Reconciling the two opinions. It comes down to the net loss of human life. Killing an unborn baby is wrong, but risking the life of the mother is too. By keeping abortion legal, it remains regulated. This means abortions will be performed in regulated manners, which protects the mothers. Rather than losing two human lives, therefore, only one is lost.
Unfortunately, the life lost is the one who can't defend or protect him or herself. But by keeping abortion legal, we are able to protect the mother.
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8 Comments
Post a CommentI am against abortion and think that peaceful prayer and demonstrations are good. We need to discourage people from having abortions. How-
ever in order to protect the mother I think that abortion should be legal. Otherwise women would be resorting to back ally abortions which would endanger the life of the mother.
All of this said I think we should do everything possible-like having 40 day vigils-to discourage abortion.
MikeThomas: we have the right to do what we want with our own bodies. yes and the problem with the nature of pregnancy is that two bodies are occupying one. if one of them has sovereignty over its own body, then it automatically cancels out the sovereingty of the other because of the dichotomous nature of pregnancy. that is what this issue is about. does one body have the right to live inside the body of another against the wishes of the other? if something is not only inside another persons body but depends upon the other body for its very survival, how can it be considered a legitimate self sustaining organism? this is where the " its my body" argument comes in. does the govt have a right to force women to use their bodies to sustain another life? can a woman refuse pregnancy?
This doesn't really make sense, im sorry. If abortion was illegal, FAR fewer women would risk the punsihment. This is obvious. Although there will always be an underground market for this we can obviously assume that most who would have had an abortion when it was legal will not have an underground abortion. This is saving 2 lives, rather than destroying 1 life. The net human loss is more if we continue to have abortion legal.
There were fewer abortions when they were illegal... it needs to be illegal. What people do illegaly is their problem, but if our government enables it, they are responsible for murder.
I have two questions for MythMan: If the fetus isn't seperate from the parent till 18, then why are there laws against child abuse? How can you insult someone by saying they own something?
I disagree slightly. You might've rehd my "Abortion: Legal Like Marriage," in which I sorta say that they both take away tax-money (although marriage does it with the added-probability of formation of more taxpayers [either directly or indirectly]). But, as I understand it, the fetus isn't legally a seperate person until over 18 years proceeding the cutting of the cord. So abortion is more "Illegal like Littering with Amputated Extremities." - - - And God DOES NOT own us any more than our dead ancestors do. In fact, Eric Cooper INSULTS God by saying that he "owns" ANYTHING!
I agree that abortion should not be going on, but the government shouldn't encourage it. I disagree that we can do what we want with our bodies. God created us,so we don't really belong to ourselves. God owns us, and doesn't want us to abuse our bodies.
Good article. I happen to agree very much with your views but have never been able to clearly explain why I felt that way. Thank you for verbalizing it for me. Keep up the good work.