Sunday, August 5, 2007

Abortion Should Not Be Legalised

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,
Be surprised, laws contradict themselves by allowing abortion to be legal. This statement reighs truth. Laws have been introduced to protected the infants with the suggestion of consciousness with the intention of protecting " life ". Yet, abortion is legal altogether. Abortion is legally wrong, and needs to become illegal. And that's what we come forth to discuss.

Firstly, there are many side effects of abortion and when a woman goes through abortion, she is not warned about the risks that she will be facing such as internal bleeding and complications which might even lead to death. Furthermore, the law states that it is legal not to inform the patients of the consequences that they would have to face. 87% of women who went through abortion have been hospitalized due to complications with legal abortions, 20% had prolonged bleeding which carried on for more than a fortnight.

Once more, abortion means the premature exit of the products of conception from the uterus. This also means murder. Although abortion is legal, it is legally wrong as scientist have stated that a life have started when the egg is fertilised as aborting it means murder.

Abortion is not the better alternative. In situations where the mother is unable or unwilling to care for her child, some argue that abortion is the infant's only escape from a life of poverty, abuse or neglect, rendering abortion as a form of unconsented enthunasia. This is not true -poverty, abuse and neglect are not the inevitable. Who's to say that the mother, previously unwilling, might not come to love the child in the end? By aborting the child, you are denying the child of that love.

Two wrongs do not make a right, and this applies to rape cases which are another reason for abortion. Why should the child take the punishment, the horrible mutilation and death, for the crime that wronged the mother? Is this just? Think about it, reverse this law Singaporeans have created to destroy themselves.


Done By :
Nicole
Candice
Kaimi
Azeezah