abortion...is it a personal decision?
By sansuchi16
@sansuchi16 (33)
Jamaica
March 30, 2009 9:07am CST
this has been debated for many years and still there has not been a conclusion to this problem.here is the question.abortion is a personal decision and therefore should be legalized.this is actually saying that a perso shoul d be able to decide for themselves what they want and know whether their decisions will affect them negatively or positively.persons with respected beliefs should not hinder those who think otherwise.if u want to abort your child it is up to you because you're the person in the situation and know how you are able to manage and so others should not be the ones to say what you should b done.it should be legalized because whwther or not people are doing it illegally anyways.this leads to a number of teenage deaths because of wrong doctor so it MUST be legalized.do you agree with this point?let me know.
3 responses
@gwoman2 (710)
• United States
30 Mar 09
Hi Sansuchi16,
I believe it is a personal choice. Is it not allowed in your country?
Here in NJ USA it is a personal choice and women have the right to abort or not.
The only problem here in NJ is that even a 12 year old little girl has to decide on her own without any input from parents, friends, or anyone...I don't think that at the age of 12 a young lady has the sense to make an informed decision.
Also, it's a good thing that we have the choice because many, many times pregnancies develop from rapes!
~G~
@urbandekay (18278)
•
30 Mar 09
Clearly not all actions are personal choices; we don't generally allow people to take another human life for instance.
The unborn is human; this is guaranteed by the fact it has a full set of human DNA.
It is also undeniably alive.
So, it is necessarily true that abortion involves taking a human life.
Those in favour present a number of arguments which can be summarised as follows.
1. Right of the woman over her own body
2. The benefit of ending the life rather than letting the child develop and grow up unwanted or in poor conditions.
1. However, we do not usually extend the right over our body to extend to rights over another human. Basically this argument reduces to inconvenience and pain to the woman. Now, we generally take preservation of life to outweigh inconvenience and pain to an individual.
2. The second argument hinges on the assumption that children growing up in poor conditions or unwanted are worth less than other children or will necessarily turn out worse or suffer greatly. Since there are counter-factuals a plenty to this, we should reject this argument too.
Therefore, on compassionate grounds abortion should be banned.
all the best urban
