Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Abortion should be made illegal: With a few exceptions

Earlier I said that I was completely against abortion, but there are a few cases where I could understand it. If the mother's life is in danger because of this pregnancy than yes, I could understand an abortion. The woman is not ready to die yet. I also said that if the woman was raped I could understand her decision to get an abortion. Often times, victims of rape do not want a constant reminder of being violated in that way and being pregnant and then even having the baby would do just that. Personally if I were a victim of rape and got pregnant I believe that I would still have the baby because I believe that all babies were created for a reason, but some women are not strong enough to handle that. My final exception was if the child was created out of incest. Now let me make myself clear; I am not justifying abortion if the child was created out of incest, I'm just saying that it is understandable. Most if not all children of incest will be born with some type of birth defect if given the chance at life because the DNA of the parents are similar. Therefore, people may see it as better for the child not to have a chance of life at all then to let the child grow up in an unhappy childhood because of whatever birth defect they have. Even if the child was lucky enough not to have a birth defect, they would still be scared mentally finding out that their father is also their brother, their aunt is also their mother, and so forth. That's not something that you can just put in the past. Therfore, if were up to me, I would make abortion illegal except for the three exceptions of the mother's life being in danger, incest, and the mother being raped.

2 comments:

cuznbritt said...

Well I too do not support abortion. I can understand terminating a pregnancy because it may be detrimental to one's health and/or life. As far as rape yes it may be a reminder of a scaring incident, but I do not believe that the child should be punished for that. If a person would not like to have that constant reminder then there is the option of abortion. I have never thought about abortion due to incest.But I think it is an unethical act in itself, and then to kill a being (through abortion) because of such an act is immoral. And if the child is born with defects, there are many children who were born with birth defects that are not products of incest I think that the only plausible reasoning for abortion would be if it endangers health and life.

Janay said...

I see what you are saying about it being immoral in the situation of incest, but like I said before, I'm not JUSTIFYING it. I'm simply saying that to me, it's understandable if the parents who were involved in this act, didn't want their child to live that kind of life.