What would it be to kill someone so young? A definition of abortion according to bpas organisation website is “termination of pregnancy, it is removed from the womb either by taking pills to cause a miscarriage or by surgery where the pregnancy is removed from the womb”. Abortion, in my definition is taking someone’s life, basically murder. Abortion is a sensitive issue dealt with modern society. Nearly every year, around 12 000 teenagers go through the process of abortion.
Apparently, abortion is legalised. The reason behind this is because the mother has all the human rights to do whatever she wants that concerns her life issues. As it states in the ‘9reasonsabortionislegal’ website, if women are pregnant she has the right to abort as “being a mother is just one option”. There are a lot of reasons a mother should abort. Firstly, having a baby due to being raped can cause emotional effects on people. Second of all, the mother may not wish to give her child to adopt so she feels it’s better if she aborts. Today’s society recommends that women should make her choices rather than building problems in her life. Lastly, abortion being legalised helps in medical complications and occurs after child birth. But do women have the right to steal a life?
Abortion causes physical complications. There are both short term and long term. From the women’s health website, the short term consequences are injuries, bleeding, pain, serious infection and incomplete abortions. The long term effects are future pregnancy failure; it damages the cervix and also affects breast growth. Apart from