With reference to other aspects of human experience, comment on the view that abortion violates the rights and dignity of the mother and child. Justify your answer.

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With reference to other aspects of human experience, comment on the view that abortion violates the rights and dignity of the mother and child. Justify your answer. [15]

There are many who agree that abortion violates the rights and dignity of mother and child, these people refer to themselves as ‘pro-life.’ They believe that an unborn child still has human rights, and that to kill it is murder. Abortion undermines motherhood by dehumanising the foetus to little more than an appendage of the mother’s body. An organisation that supports this view is Abolish Human Abortion. They are perhaps the most outspoken Christian pressure group and are against abortion in any circumstances: “We demand the immediate and total abolition of abortion. You cannot abolish any evil by justifying or allowing it to continue in some cases.”

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Abortion can also be anti-female, especially in Asian countries such as India and China where boys are preferable to girls. This is especially evident in China, where abortion is used as part of the Communist Party’s totalitarian power over every area of their citizens’ lives. The one-child policy was introduced in the 70s to control overpopulation, and it resulted in forced abortions and invasive monitoring of women’s menstrual cycles. Sons are seen as having more cultural worth, so many girls are aborted or abandoned if the abortion goes wrong – 95% of children in state care are girls. The ...

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