Should Abortion Should Be Made Legal?
The topic of abortion and whether abortion should be made legal has been a controversial issue that has been highly debated for the past several years. Abortion, in its broad sense, is the intended termination of human pregnancy, most often performed after six to seven months of pregnancy. In its narrow sense, abortion is the unlawful killing of a fetus while still in its mother’s womb. Some people claim that abortion should be made legal and that doctors should be allowed to practice it whereas other critics claim that abortion is unethical and must be avoided at all costs no matter the situation faced. The latter justifies the means. According to Ladock, J. (2014), abortion is revealed as a ghastly crime. After all, abortion indicates the
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After studying and investigating women who underwent abortion, scientists and researchers gave rise to the newly found post-abortion syndrome (PAS). The symptoms of such syndrome are emotional numbness, repression of emotions and psychosomatic symptoms such as stress and distress. According to the article in Family and Life (n.d.), when a woman becomes pregnant, she experiences hormonal, biological and psychological changes. If the woman chooses abortion, then she went against her internal instincts, which will then lead to distress and increase the chances of obtaining the post-abortion syndrome (para. 8). Aside of developing syndromes and psychological problems, women after abortion can reach a peak where they cannot handle the stress and emotional pain anymore and thus choose the easy path out, suicide. According to Terzo, R. (2013), the European Journal of Health studied around 450,000 pregnant women and found out that the women who undergo abortion die within 5 years of the abortion operation. Women often grow fondly attached to their babies or even their fetus whether they realize it or not. Some women claim that they will face no emotional distress after undergoing abortion but find out otherwise after they successfully complete the operation. After abortion, the woman starts considering herself as a bad person and
After studying and investigating women who underwent abortion, scientists and researchers gave rise to the newly found post-abortion syndrome (PAS). The symptoms of such syndrome are emotional numbness, repression of emotions and psychosomatic symptoms such as stress and distress. According to the article in Family and Life (n.d.), when a woman becomes pregnant, she experiences hormonal, biological and psychological changes. If the woman chooses abortion, then she went against her internal instincts, which will then lead to distress and increase the chances of obtaining the post-abortion syndrome (para. 8). Aside of developing syndromes and psychological problems, women after abortion can reach a peak where they cannot handle the stress and emotional pain anymore and thus choose the easy path out, suicide. According to Terzo, R. (2013), the European Journal of Health studied around 450,000 pregnant women and found out that the women who undergo abortion die within 5 years of the abortion operation. Women often grow fondly attached to their babies or even their fetus whether they realize it or not. Some women claim that they will face no emotional distress after undergoing abortion but find out otherwise after they successfully complete the operation. After abortion, the woman starts considering herself as a bad person and