Child Abortion, Should or Should Not?
Toward Abortion and a Social trend in Vietnam While researching the changes in the fast pace of modern life, where most people are concerned about economic developments and democratic lifestyles, we found myriad shocking facts about a questionable social evil: abortion. Abortion is not a new phenomenon. But the increasing statistics of abortion and the rising contribution from adolescents have raged concerns about the young Vietnamese’s living attitude and their senses of responsibility. Abortion in Vietnam has reached the alarming level. Our goal in this paper is to bring these startling facts into discussion by arguing whether child abortion should be legalized and how can we reverse the trend in Vietnam. To achieve this goal, we have organized our paper into 3 main parts. In the first section, we provide an account of historical review of child abortion to make comparisons of the current trend in Vietnam and worldwide: rate of abortion of all pregnancies, rate of reasons contributed to child abortion. In the second section we discuss the For and Against arguments over the legislation of child abortion. We end our paper with answers to the questions: If abortion is legal, what message is this sending to young men and women? Do fetuses have rights? What’s about the safety and right to a happy life for the unborn child? Should developments go along with deterioration of moral values? Before giving and overview about the modern trend of child abortion, it’s necessary to provide an historical context of child abortion to see the differences between the old and the new trend, and to answer the questions why abortion has become a social evil in Vietnam, and it is to this that we now turn. According to Wikipedia, it is said that “Abortion is a termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be
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