Abortion
- sn pubs
- Oct 23, 2019
- 2 min read
In this day and age, unwanted and unplanned pregnancies are way more common than you think. In 2012, approximately 40 percent of pregnancies worldwide were unintended. In the United States alone, 50 percent of all pregnancies are unplanned and 43 percent of these unplanned pregnancies result in abortion.
Firstly, a foetus is a person. Human life begins at conception and all the babies who are aborted are humans with lives.The foetus is an innocent human being. People seem to think that just because the baby isn’t born, it isn’t a life, when in fact, it is equivalent to killing a person. From the moment the egg is fertilised, a life is formed and it should be treated like a normal living human being.
Secondly, abortion not only kills an innocent being, but it also scars the mother of the baby as she will most probably be traumatised after everything is over. This emotional condition is known as Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS). It is being associated with a form of post-traumatic stress reactions (PTSD) which often occurs after an individual has suffered an event so stressful and so traumatic that he/she is unable to cope with this experience. After this traumatic event, those suffering from PTSD are unable to simply resume their lives where they had left off. Instead, they experience many different reactions that do not go away merely with time. One important factor related to the negative emotional or psychological effects has to do with one’s belief about the baby in the womb. Those who believe it is not a baby until it is born to have less of a chance of experiencing negative emotional consequences. However, those who believe it is a baby are more likely to experience negative emotional side effects.
All in all, abortion is not something we should be alright with and taken lightly. No matter how small a foetus is, it is still a life and it should be treasured.
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Adele Yeo
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