Is Abortion a Gift or a Curse to Society?

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Is Abortion a Gift or a Curse to Society?

Abortion is deemed as the premature expulsion of the foetus from the womb. Abortion is not a modern moral dilemma, contrary to what a lot of people think. It has been an issue since Jesus’ time, and before, as even in the Old Testament times the law concerning abortion was that if you killed an unborn child you were responsible to pay compensation.

In modern times, Parliament has debated the subject many times and has drawn up two main reasons as to why an abortion can legally be carried out so long as the pregnancy hasn’t reached its 24th week. 1. That continuing the pregnancy would involve serious mental or physical risk to the woman or her immediate family or 2. If there is a strong risk that the baby could be born severely handicapped.

        In recent years only two percent of abortions happened due to these reasons. The other 98% was for  risk of ‘psychological damage’ to the mother.

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The main arguments for abortion, or pro-choice arguments are that a foetus is not truly alive- whereas there can be no argument that the mother is- therefore is not the mother’s life worth more and more important? This is one of the main debates that surround the controversy of abortion- when does life really begin? At conception, during pregnancy or at birth? Because of this, each side can always say that the foetus is or isn’t alive and that you are or aren’t killing a baby through abortion. Pro-choice campaigners also say that doctors have no better right than ...

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