God has given as life, and life Is sacred and good. God has also given the responsibility to make decisions which reflect a reverence for life In circumstances when conflicting relatives are present. Jesus affirmed women as full partners In the faith capable of making decisions that affect their lives. We Filipinos must be open tackling the issues about this abortion topic. Some religious sectors may have their satang eyes about this. Some question WHY? , DOES IT NECESSARY? , YES!
Because legalization of abortion making a choice for every women, Filipino women to have a Abe access and legal abortion with a woman’s right to follow the dictate of her own faith and beliefs in determining when and if she should have children. Should Abortion be legal? Why not here’s some reasons and statements why should be abortion be legal here In the Philippines. 1. A woman’s right to choose abortion Is a “fundamental right” (Those countries practicing abortion also practicing and enjoying woman’s right) 2. Persephone begins at birth not at conception. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy not a baby. Persephone at conception is not a proven biological fact. ) 3. Fetus are incapable of feeling pain during abortion. (Only has the biological development not yet occurred to support pain experience, but the environment after birth, so necessary to the development of pain experience, is also yet to occur. ) 4. Access to legal professionally performed abortions reduces injury and death caused by unsafe illegal abortion. (Illegal abortions caused 68000 maternal death each year where abortion is not legal) 5.
The anta abortion position is usually on religious beliefs and threatens the vital separation of the state and the and church. (Religious Ideology should not be the foundation the law It should be the Interest of the people for common good of each and everyone. ) 6. Modern abortion is safe. 7. Access to abortions necessary, because contraceptives are not always readily available. (Women need a doctor’s prescription to obtain many birth control methods, such as the pill, the patch, the shot, and the diaphragm. ) 8.
Abortion gives couples he option to choose not to bring babies with severe and life-threatening medical conditions to full term. (Fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic form of mental retardation, affects about 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females. One in 800 babies have Down Syndrome, and one in 3,500 babies are born with Cystic Fibrosis. It is wrong to sentence a child to life with an acute handicap. ) 9. Women don’t have the financial resources to support a child (Reproductive choice protects women from financial disadvantage) 10.
Motherhood should not be a punishment for having a sexual Intercourse. (Example: Rape) 11. A baby should not to the world unwanted. Planning and preparation. ) 12. Population Control (Malnutrition, Starvation, poverty, lack of medical and educational services, pollution, underdevelopment and conflict over resources this are the consequences of over populated. ) 13. Abortion reduces crime (Some estimates claim legalized abortion accounted for as much as 50% of the drop in murder, property crime, and violent crime between 1973 and 2001.
Teenage girls, unmarried women, and poor women are more likely to have unintended pregnancies, and since unwanted babies are often raised in poverty, their chances of leading criminal lives in adulthood are increased. ) This issue tackles very long and more debates to come. What I’m trying to build up here in my statements that church and state are different. Woman should have that choice, choice in what to do or what to be. As I quote “Follow your conscience rather than the teachings of church” Your body, your choice. Your life, your freedom.
