An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of a mammalian embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced. Abortion as a term most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy, while spontaneous abortions are usually termed a miscarriage.
Abortion has a long history and has been induced by various methods including herbal abortifacients, the use of sharpened tools, abdominal pressure, and other traditional methods. Modern medicine utilizes medications and surgical procedures to induce abortion. The legality, prevalence, and cultural views on abortion vary substantially around the world. In many parts of the world there is intense public debate over the ethical and legal aspects of abortion. The approximate number of induced abortions performed worldwide in 2003 was 42 million, which declined from nearly 46 million in 1995.
So,abortion declined in the last years, this mean that people are always more convinced that abortion is bad.
I personally don't think it's the greatest idea in the world (killing an unborn child), but hey, if a woman wants to get one, by all means, she should be able to -- without getting chastized about the damn thing.
[quote]I don't think abortion is good. It, like jahsonx said, takes away a human life. Every life is precious, and should be saved. Getting an abortion is like murdering a child, who is helpless and doesn't have a choice in the matter. The pregnant woman should've thought about the possiblity of getting pregnant before she decided not to use protection.
As to whether or not it is to save the humiliation of a handicap child, then that is to me, still the same. Although you DO try to save the child from "evil" things, and you are hoping that it'll do the embryo more good, you still shouldn't take this life away. Every human, handicap or not, has unlimited potential, you just have to help them find it. However, if you are 100% sure that the child will not survive his first year, then perhaps an abortion is the best idea.
The pregnant woman should've thought about the possiblity of getting pregnant before she decided not to use protection.
This makes many assumptions, not all of which are fair or accurate. I agree that abortion is bad, but the comments brought up highlight the fact that simply not having an abortion doesn't prevent all the problems. If we worked together to help those mothers who would consider an abortion, if we worked to create an environment where they felt that they had other options, perhaps abortion would decline still further.
I just want to know one thing: If a girl get raped by a stranger, and gets pregnant, should she then be allowed to have an abortion?
Abortion as a way out of pregnancy, because you were stupid and didn't use a condom, no.
A reason for the decreasing number of abortion could be that people are more conscious about remembering protection, and because of the .. I have no idea what it is called, but the 'regret pill', that little strong pill thing.
I disagree. An egg is not a chicken, a seed is not a tree, and a foetus is not a baby, or a child. All this moralism about abortions clouds the real argument, as to what a woman can do with her own body. Women should have the right to free, legal and safe abortions without question, without being treated as if they do not know what is best for them, without having to be harassed by religious and right wing bigots. The statistic above, of a decline in numbers of abortions, is not a symptom of people thinking 'this is bad', but is a result of decades of governments and the religious right being on the offensive following the women's liberation movement of the 70's.
As if governments care more about us than we do. They send people to war, throw huge sums of money to the rich and powerful yet constantly undermine health services and rights at work. The case for abortion is not a moral question but a political one, and I am firmly on the side of women to have complete control over what happens to them and their bodies.
ANd this chick thanks you for it, even though it's a non-issue for me now.
Like all pro-choice people, I agree that fewer abortions is the ideal, because that means more people have access to adequate education and health care as related to reproduction.
Of course adoption is an option, and it's the option I'd have most likely take were I in the situation to decide. But with all of the children out there already waiting for homes or in crappy homes (foster or otherwise) I don't see how forcing some poor girl (who may or may not have made a bad decision) to be an incubator for a kid she doesn't want is really the morally superior choice. Her body, her call, period.
I feel that something with a heartbeat and registered brain activity is not part of a woman's so she can do as pleaseed with it if you didn't want the baby don't have sex. I mean seriously do we really need abortion? If people could just find one person and commit themselves in marriage before they make that kind of adult desicions we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
