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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Can we justify abortion ?

Getting conceived by having sexual union with your spouse is your personal as well as your private affair; of course, it is your right also. Hence, it is up to you to decide whether you have to carry or not to carry and give birth to a baby or not. Hence, it is none of our business to advice you to have an abortion.

The moment you come to know that you are conceived and about to deliver a baby, you get elated; you prepare yourself for the motherhood and welcome the yet to be born baby. However, still some circumstances may arise forcing you to undergo adoption and get your baby killed at the fetus stage. In other words, in the abortion process, your pregnancy is terminated at the early stages of the fetus.

Hence abortion is a hard pill to swallow and it should be resorted to only under the fit, gravest and extreme circumstances that justify it. However, sometimes you are forced to undergo abortion due to some personal as well as external factors that you have not foreseen and beyond your control.

Personal Factors:

When you are in the family way, you may be physically suffering from a general weakness and not in a position to carry a baby. In that event, at the advice of a doctor, you may have to undergo abortion to terminate your pregnancy. Sometimes, your uterus may be so weak that it cannot withstand the physical growth of your fetus into a baby in a long period. If you do not undergo abortion, as your fetus grows into a baby, there is every chance of getting your uterus fractured or torn away, endangering your life as well as your baby. Sometimes, your constitution is unfit to bear a baby. For example, you have a hip of an abnormal size and so you have no scope for a natural delivery. But in such cases, there is scope for delivering a baby through cesarean surgery. Even then if the doctor feels that you are unfit for the cesarean surgery also, it is always safer to undergo abortion, instead of taking a risk.

When you have delivered a baby only recently, say three or four months ago, sometimes you become pregnant causing much inconvenience to your body so as to undergo the ordeals of yet another pregnancy like nausea etc. Under the influence of this pregnancy, you may not be able to look after your three months old baby, which you had recently delivered; in particular, when you have no substitute to look after your baby and your physical condition may not permit you to look after it properly, it is better to have abortion. Otherwise, you along with your newly born baby will suffer like anything.

When you are a teen and unmarried, but you become pregnant through your boy friend. Your family members do not approve of this pregnancy, nor you are mentally and physically fit to bear a baby; your boy friend is not willing to marry you and in fact cheated you; when you deliver your child, it will become illegitimate and will be called as a ‘bastard’.You have no other go but to undergo abortion.

While you are pregnant, your fetal growth is very poor and abnormal; your doctor diagnoses that your fetus is having some hereditary decease and if delivered, the baby will be a physically impaired person or mentally retarded, it is better to undergo abortion than to suffer after delivering such a baby. However, you have to resort to abortion only in consultation with your doctor and he gives an affirmative opinion in favor of abortion.

External Factors:

Sometimes external factors may also force you to undergo abortion. You are just married but your husband has lost his job. You are literally on the street. You are not sure of your future. You are finding it difficult to eke out your livelihood. You actually wanted to postpone your pregnancy under your present worst economic crisis. Under such circumstances, you cannot afford to have a baby. It is better to go for abortion under the advice of the doctor. When you decide in favor of abortion, earliest is the best.

You have so far not adopted any small family norms. Your family is unwieldy big, having too many children. Your elder sons and daughters are married; some of your sons and daughters are awaiting marriage. Your other children are grown up. You also have a number of grandchildren. Your children and grandchildren alone are sufficient to run a school. Just imagine, if you become pregnant and deliver a baby, how your grandsons and grand daughters will react to it or even call your newly born baby. Therefore, instead of remaining a machine for delivering babies, it is better to go for abortion and adopt family planning norms.

You already have one or two children; it is time to adopt small family norms as called for by the government in the interest of your family. Therefore, when you become pregnant, it is better to go for abortion at the earliest opportunity under the advice of a doctor and adopt small family norms.

In countries like India, where domestic violence is a problem, women are subjected to violence and harassment on the one pretext or another, even when they are pregnant. They are meted out with cruel treatment, at times, even beaten at their stomachs mercilessly, unmindful of the consequences to the growing fetus in the womb, causing unbearable pain to the mother as well as the growing baby. Instead of writhing with pain causing irreparable damage to you as well as your growing fetus, you should consult a doctor immediately and on his advice, it is always better to undergo abortion.

In countries like China and India, to check the population explosion, incentives are offered to employees, when they adopt small family norms and restrict themselves with one or two children. When they violate the assurance given to their employer and exceed the small family norms, in countries like China, pecuniary incentives are stopped forthwith. Going a step further, the incentives already given are also recovered. To bail out themselves from such financial pressures, the Chinese people frequently resort to abortion; sometimes in unavoidable circumstances, they even go to the extent of killing the newly born babies in a most cruel way. Therefore, under such circumstances, these people instead of going wild, it is better to use contraceptives for avoiding unwanted pregnancies. Despite of using contraceptives, if they become pregnant, it is always better to consult a doctor, before resorting to adoption.

Therefore, in the interest of your well being and to enjoy a carefree life, it is always better to adopt small family norms by using contraceptives. However, in order to avoid unwanted pregnancies, you have to go for abortion, only when it is justified, under the advice and supervision of a doctor.In countries like India, you have laws to regulate and legitimize abortion.

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