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Abortion

Abortion it’s mean the ending of pregnancy due to removing

an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus. This topic is one of
sensitive and contoversial topics that have already debate by a lot of people for a long
time. The opinions already have divided into pro life and pro choices. For those who
oppose abortion or pro life call it murder and condemn the idea of a woman “playing
God” with a human life, deciding who will live and who will die. Yet whether an
unborn baby constitutes a life is questionable; a pregnant woman, on the other hand,
has the undeniable right to choose whether she wants to have a child or not. And the
truth is that laws prohibiting abortion inhibit freedom of choice and endanger the
physical and mental health of women. Many people still questioning the good side if
we legalize this thing and just for your info I support to pro choices or legalize
abortion. Now I’m gonna tell you my opinion and arguments about this whole thing
why we need to choose legalize and support abortion.

First, Many people think that if we do abortion we kill a person and that is the
baby but actually this “ Person” begins after a fetus becomes "viable" (able to survive
outside the womb) or after birth, not at conception. Embryos and fetuses are not
independent, self-determining beings, and abortion is the termination of a pregnancy,
not a baby beside a person's age is calculated from birth date, not conception.
Because in Indonesia we still prohibit this thing, I gonna quotes from Us Constitution
in Roe v. Wade in the fourteenth amandement states that from majority opinion that
fetuses are not counted and the word ‘person’, doesn’t include the unborn and the 7
decision stated that the Constitution gives "a guarantee of certain areas or zones of
privacy," and that "This right of privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's
decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."
And, if you think that the fetuses is felling the pain if we do this it’s actually not.
According to a review by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists, "most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain
perception." The cortex doesn’t become functional until at least the 26th week of a
fetus' development, long after most abortions are performed. The "flinching" and other
reactions seen in fetuses when they detect pain stimuli are mere reflexes, not an
indication that the fetus is perceiving or "feeling" anything.

Second, A baby should not come into the world unwanted. Having a child is an
important decision that requires consideration, preparation, and planning. The
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment stated that unintended
pregnancies are associated with birth defects, low birth weight, maternal depression,
increased risk of child abuse, lower educational attainment, delayed entry into prenatal
care, a high risk of physical violence during pregnancy, and reduced rates of
breastfeeding. Many people that reject abortion think that this is morally and as an
ethics is wrong especially if we connect it with religion. But if you think from point of
view the mother to experience the pregnancy even she doesn’t want it. In the end it’s
gonna make mental burden for the mother. And with that mental state it’s gonna lead
to depression, stress, anxiety and suicidal thought for the mother and most commonly
in such cases, the child grows up amidst great emotional deprivation.

Yes, the child is given food, but it’s not made with love and even sometimes
they feel like a stranger in the home .They repressed their own feelings. The parents
rarely spend quality time for their child and thinking that is’s just waste of time and
every opportunity to speak with them will feel uncomfortable and tense. They feel as
if they “have nothing to say.”

It will be very difficult for unwanted children to build healthy relationships of

affection in their adult life. Love is a foreign language to them. They don’t know how
to decipher the codes and much less how to build them. It’s very hard for them to need
and to be needed. An affective relationship may be suffocating to them: it’s a defense
against intimacy of which they know nothing. Normally they fluctuate between
egotism and deep feelings of inferiority. They don’t understand what a balanced and
healthy self-esteem looks like. That’s why, more often than not, they completely shirk
their conflicts with peers and superiors, or do nothing but generate them. They speak
incessantly about the broken relationship that marked their arrival in the world

Third, Access to legal, professionally-performed abortions reduces maternal

injury and death caused by unsafe, illegal abortions. According to Daniel R. Mishell, ,
Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Keck School of
Medicine, University of Southern California, before abortion was legalized women
would frequently try to induce abortions by using coat hangers, knitting needles, or
radiator flush, or by going to unsafe "back-alley" abortionists. In 1972, there were 39
maternal deaths from illegal abortions. By 1976, after Roe v. Wade had legalized
abortion nationwide, this number dropped to two. The World Health Organization
estimated that unsafe abortions cause 68,000 maternal deaths worldwide each year,
many of those in developing countries where safe and legal abortion services are
difficult to access.

From this opinions and arguments we need to think and try to support abortion
and even legalize it. There is a lot benefit if we start to legalize abortion. We need to
start change our mind about abortion and start to try not just see from your perspective
but from the mother that experiencing this thing and of course we need start to stop
blaming the mother for the pregnancy and even judge her if she choose to do abortion.