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Thursday, April 1, 2010
I had dinner with a couple of ex classmates today, we had alot to talk about!! Back during our Secondary school times, the 8 of us were very close with each other, we were inseperable!! Well seriously speaking nothing has changed except our age.. HaHa.. 5yrs on, meeting today was nice n fun, Though it was a quick dinner, we managed to own up our mistakes over the years n even laugh at them!
Anyways the more I think about abortion, the less I can morally justify it.
It seems to me that 5 out of 8(the other three being guys) of us, who met today has had abortions done.
I m one of the culprit too.
I don't think it's fair to call it "murder"; but I do think it is deeply immoral, indeed that it should be illegal, punished on par with something like assault or petty theft.
First of all, the argument that a fetus is some sort of harmful parasite is simply absurd. If it were a tapeworm or an infestation of lice, not even the staunchest vegan would object to its removal.
But more than that, if it were really just a parasite, you wouldn't want an abortion. You'd want it taken out, but you wouldn't care what happened to it after that. For a fetus, you do care. You care a great deal. You either want it raised as a baby—or squashed like an insect.
Suppose it becomes possible to remove and artificially incubate human fetuses. (We're not there yet, but I see no reason to think we won't be soon. Clearly it is possible; our bodies do it all the time.) Once your fetus has been incubated outside of you, it will be dutifully returned to you; you must now either raise the baby or find someone to adopt them. Honestly, would any of the women who today want abortions be satisfied with that arrangement? (Women who want the baby but are worried about the safety of their pregnancy would no doubt avail themselves of this technology; but they wouldn't have gotten abortions in the first place.)
I pretty sure they wouldn't. Which brings me to my fundamental argument against abortion. You only want to kill the fetus because you know that it will grow into a baby—your baby. It is precisely because of the human responsibility incurred through pregnancy and childbirth that people are motivated to seek abortions. Your motivation for abortion is precisely the truth you must deny to justify abortion—that this is a human life growing inside you for which you are responsible. ("It's just a bundle of cells" belongs on the same list as "I'm being sincere" and "I had no choice"; you only say it when you know it isn't true.)
And, well, if you're going to have sex, you should accept the risks and responsibilities of sex—including pregnancy. No, it's not a "punishment"; it's a consequence. If you have vaginal sex without effective contraception, you can get pregnant. This is what happens. This is how our bodies are constructed. And frankly, everyone above the age of six knows this.
That's another argument I'm sick of hearing; banning abortion is nothing like a punishment for sex. Banning sex would be a punishment for sex. Having a baby is the natural consequence of having unprotected sex. (It is also a possible consequence of having protected sex, but much more rarely. In this case, it should be considered as a calculated risk—and once again, the consequences should be accepted.) You've begun the process of creating a human being; you know hold responsibility for that human being.
Imagine this same sort of argumentation in some other domain, say drug use. "Punishing people who steal to provide for their drug habit is just punishing people for using drugs." Clearly that isn't true. If you have no money because your drug habit is too expensive, too damn bad; you shouldn't have spent all your money on drugs. You have no right to steal from other people to make up the difference. This isn't punishing you for using drugs; it's punishing you for hurting others in the attempt to escape the consequences of your own irresponsible actions. (In Singapore , drugs themselves are illegal; I agree, that's wrong. But suppose they weren't. It isn't wrong to punish people for doing other illegal things in order to provide for their drug habits.)
In short, I conclude that abortion is morally wrong, and should be banned. There may be cases where it is justified—these can be dealt with in a court of law, in much the same way that cases of justifiable or excusable assault and homicide are dealt with in a court of law. But the law should not protect abortion on demand. In cases of rape, emergency contraception should be readily available, as should counseling and maternity care if necessary. There's little reason we need abortion to deal with rape; but even if we decide that it is justified in such extreme circumstances, this in no way justifies abortion on demand.
And remember,
Abortion doesn't make you unpregnant ; it makes you a mother of a dead child.
Pretty IRONICAL huh?? I am against abortions yet i have had one done. Till to date i have dreams about the baby, nightmares which keep me awake the whole night. Dudes & dudettes, my story is one complicated story, I regret getting the abortion done. Whoever reads this, pls, pass it on! Advice ur frens not to SIN. Learn from mistakes, learn from what i m going thru! Life is very Precious, we create it not to destroy it. : '(
---Ryeana
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