Many of the public assume that the women who do choose to have an abortion are ‘silly young teenagers’ or ‘spineless women’, but that is not the case, Most of the people who go through with their choice to get rid of their child have good valid reasons and it is the women’s choice not anyone else’s especially people they do not know. If abortion was banned then many young teenage girls who do become pregnant would not have the choice that they have today, to either keep the child or to abort it. In today’s society teenage parents are bullied because of one silly mistake which most of them regret even though they love their child dearly. Adults see teenagers as immature and that they are not able to handle relationships especially a physical one, and most of the older generation snigger or look down on teenage parents and condemn them for what they have done. These adults do not think about the teenager who has to go through this torment every day and no one thinks of what the young parent wanted, maybe they did not want the child but were not allowed to have an abortion due to religious beliefs.
Many children are here today because their mother was not allowed to have an abortion due to religious beliefs. A Christian does not think that it is right to kill an unborn child and the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (S.P.U.C) protest everyday for the government to make abortions illegal. Other religions such as Hindus also do not believe in abortions, but if women ever do get in the situation were they are contemplating an abortion then religion does not matter to them.
One of these situations is if a young teenager or women of any age at that matter has been attacked and raped. Going through that experience is traumatic enough and many women have to go through years of counselling, but in a small percentage of cases these women become pregnant. If abortion was made illegal then these women would have to go through with an unwanted pregnancy and when the child was born all you would feel was hatred, and that is unfair for both mother and child.
Another situation would be if the mother was HIV positive or had AIDS, then there would be a strong chance of the child contracting the disease. If abortion was illegal then these childrens lives would be ruined and the mother would feel uncontrollable guilt knowing that she passed this monster onto her baby. Many MPs think that if the public knew that these situations would happen it would highlight the use of contraception and would reduce the amount of sexually transmitted infections, such as AIDS. Banning abortions is not the solution that they are looking for, if the government wanted to highlight the use of contraception then they should spend more money on sex education in schools and that would reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and the number of abortions taking place each year, without ruining the lives of the women who really do need an abortion.
These women vary, from being raped; having AIDS or even if the child that they were having would be born with a disability that would ruin not only the mother’s life but also the child itself. Many women find out that their child is going to be born with a mental handicap such as downs syndrome or a disease, which would mean that the child in question would die at a very young age. Even though the chances that the child would defy these odds are very slim, some women still decide to go through with the pregnancy to give the unborn child an experience of life even though it would not be the best.
Making abortion illegal would not only ruin the lives of those women who have unwanted pregnancies but could also ruin the lives of the unwanted child itself. The child could be lucky, and have parents who, after going through with the pregnancy learn to cope and give the child all the love and security they can, but that is again a slim chance. In some cases the child could be brought up in an un-loving and un-caring situation, maybe even leading to it being subjected to child abuse in all forms, mental, physical, sexual and even neglect. The unwanted child could even be put up for adoption as a baby or as a small child. It would be better for the child’s life to end before birth than to make it go through more pain after birth.
Scientists argue that at twelve weeks the foetus can feel pain and has all the body parts and internal organs it needs to survive, which is murder as it is a human being after this point, but instead of making abortion illegal, the government should ban abortion after twelve weeks. This case is used in many anti-abortion campaigns as protesters say that the unborn child can feel pain and in some cases it has been reported that the baby has been heard crying when it is being aborted. The protesters can take things too far when they are proving their point and in an Anti-abortion group in America, some women even killed a doctor who worked in an abortion clinic as they felt so strongly about the matter.
If the government was to ban abortions then that situation could happen here in Britain as many women feel comforted knowing that they have the basic human right to be able to choose what happens in their life and that they do not feel as if it is a dictatorship. Abortion is a serious matter in every countries as there is opposing views everywhere, but is it right to be able to tell a woman that they have got to have a child that they do not want, if this did happen then the country would be overcrowded and the levels of poverty would rise.
