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Abortion Essay Research Paper Thereare two types

Abortion Essay, Research Paper


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are two types of abortion: spontaneous and induced. Spontaneous abortion or


miscarriage is when a foetus dies naturally inside the mother. Induced abortion


is when the foetus is deliberately killed by taking it from the mother?s womb.


This essay is about induced abortion.? ??????????? Abortion is a subject that many


people have strong views on. Anti-abortionists believe a person is alive from


the moment a human egg is fertilised and any attempt to end that life ? before


or after birth ? is murder. One anti-abortionist wrote, ?There is no difference


in killing a four-year-old child and aborting a pre-born child.? One protester


at an abortion clinic said ?I don?t believe in killing abortion doctors but I


believe in heaven and hell?. I feel they will go straight to hell.? ??????????? It is hard to see the other side of


things. Many women?s groups believe that abortion brings equality between


sexes. One woman wrote a book saying ? We support the rights of the individual


woman to choose, to choose pregnancy or abortion.? ??????????? There is halfway point between the


other two views. Some people believe abortion should be available but only for


specific medical and social reasons: women who have been raped, women who know


that the foetus is handicapped, and women who could suffer in childbirth


causing possible death. ??????????? In


the UK, the 1967 Abortion Act was introduced to mainly to stop illegal and


dangerous abortions. By making abortion legal, politicians hoped fewer women


would die or suffer as a consequence of badly performed abortions. Today,


abortion is illegal in very few countries-even those with religious beliefs and


traditions. During the 1960s and 1970s many governments relaxed their abortion


laws and made it easier for women to terminate unwanted pregnancies. In a few


countries such as the Soviet Union abortion is seen as an alternative to


contraception. In China women are forced to have abortions because of the


one-child-per-family policy. This policy is aimed at reducing the country?s


overpopulation problems. ??????????? No religion actually supports


abortion. Although some religions accept that are certain circumstances where


abortion is necessary. Pope John Paul II has always stressed the anti-abortion


attitude of the Roman Catholic Church. The attitude of the Church of England is


less clear. In 1985, the Bishop of Birmingham put up a Bill in the House of


Lords suggesting that the time limit for abortion in the UK should be reduced


to 24 weeks. This act was passed allowing abortions to only take place up to 24


weeks unless ?the quality life? wasn?t going to be satisfactory. The time was


reduced because it is said the baby becomes ?viable? after 24 weeks meaning it


may have a chance of surviving. The Anglican Church has tended to take a more


broad-minded view towards abortion. The Jewish faith discourages abortion,


except when the life of the mother is at risk. Muslims also believe that


abortion is wrong and can only be appropriate in very rare cases, such as when


the mother?s life is at risk. One woman wrote ?A woman does not create the foetus


but receives it; the foetus is entrusted to her.? Some people believe that life


as we know it only begins when the brain is formed. ??????????? In countries that allow abortion,


the mothers needs are put first before the foetus. It may be decided that she


is unable to care for her child, by age, health, mental development and social


damage, so she has an abortion. It is often thought abortion is unwomanly


because women are destined to care and to protect. By having an abortion they


are not being caring or protecting. A new baby can bring joy to one woman, but


heartache to another if she feels unable to care for the baby. An unwanted


child puts great pressure on a couple?s relationship. One 17-year-old girl


said, ?Even though I?ve had an abortion I wouldn?t like others to use abortion


as another form of contraceptive. For abortion is not preventing a birth but


killing an individual.? It is hard to judge who should be allowed abortion.


Does a woman who isn?t in a steady relationship have fewer right

s to abortion than


a woman who knows her baby is deformed? ??????????? Over the last few years many men


have gone to court to try and stop their partners from having abortions. All


have failed. One man said, ?Our babies can be killed and you can?t even have a


proper funeral.?? Genetically the foetus


is as much apart of the father as it is of the mother so why don?t they have


equal rights. There is the other side of things, it is the woman who has to go


through the pain of birth, so why should the decision of having an abortion be


left to her partner. People who are against abortion realise


that contraception is necessary. The intra-uterine device doesn?t stop an egg


from being fertilised it stops the egg implanting in the womb. The ?morning


after? Pill, taken in three days of having unprotected sex, also is aimed at


preventing a fertilised egg implanting in the womb. So these forms of


contraception could be thought as abortion. The egg has been fertilised but not


allowed to settle in the womb. Many people argue that a woman can have a home


pregnancy test on the day her period is due ? that is within in two weeks of


contraception. Many miscarriages occur naturally at this stage, without the


woman being aware that she is pregnant. It is therefore no less wrong to abort


the baby at this stage. Carrying out abortions is part of


everyday work of thousands of doctors and nurses all over the world. In many


countries doctors promise to do everything they can to save a life: ?I will


give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such advice; and in


a like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.? Many


doctors and nurses do not agree with carrying out abortion, and refuse to do


so. In a survey of about 300 gynaecologists, 73 per cent believed that women should


be allowed to choose to have an abortion or not. Although, three-quarters of


gynaecologists surveyed wanted to reduce the time limit so there would be less


late abortions.? It is hard to believe


that any woman can take the decision to abort her foetus lightly. One woman who


took it badly said, ?My sorrow was immeasurable, penetrating every fibre of my


being. I was wracked with sobs for an hour. For 3 months after I plunged into


emotional darkness.? My own opinion of abortion is very


varied. There are so many different reasons for abortions. Every woman who has


had one will have had reasons. I am sure they wouldn?t have decided in a few


minutes that they were going to abort their baby. They would have thought long


and hard about what to do. I put myself in the position of someone else. If I


got pregnant now would I really be able to keep it. I would, for one, have to


stop school and miss out on the education I would need to bring up a child. I


probably wouldn?t be able to cope with the emotional pressures and cope with


the pain of giving birth. It all seems so easy before you see it through


someone else?s eyes. Women don?t just have an abortion as a spur of the moment


thing. It is however a hard subject to be sure


of an opinion. You can look on abortion as murder. Even if a woman is under age


then isn?t it better to bring a life in to the world. The emotional pressure of


abortion must be high knowing that you have stopped a baby being born. In a way


I don?t understand why women abort their handicapped foetuses. It should be


loved whatever. In this world today we are brought up to not have prejudices,


so why should having a handicapped baby be different from having a normal baby.


If a woman doesn?t want the baby then why not have it adopted at birth; at least


it will be alive. The dilemma of abortion is not one that


can be overcome quickly. Each case is different; each woman has different


needs, hopes and dreams. Who are we to judge one of the hardest decisions of


her life? And who are we to say if it is right or wrong???????????? ??????????? I believe that abortions should be


available but that a woman should have a valid reason for aborting the baby. I


don?t think a woman should be able to walk into a clinic and have an abortion


but they should need the consent of 2 doctors as they do now.?

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