Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Fetus? Pro-life or Pro-choice

With the increasing number of sex before marriage recently, the issue of abortion appears in the society and it is becoming a more controversial topic more than ever. It is not easy to decide, are you pro-life or pro-choice, but what happen most of the time is, once you are pregnant before marriage, the tendency for you to become pro-choice increase. Moreover, ones decision to be pro-life or pro-choice has great correlation with their cultural, religion, and family background.
In Indonesia, abortion is illegal especially with the kind of culture adopted in the society which prioritize religion, and most religions are pro-life because even it is only a fetus, it is one of God’s creation or some people refers it as God’s gift. What happen when pregnancies happen because of rape or the baby will be born unhealthy? Abortion is one of the solution for those kind of problems, but still, legalize abortion in Indonesia probably will never happen whatsoever.
Side effect of abortion not only mentally, but also physically such as first, severe bleeding particularly when the abortion process fails, second, bladder and bowel injury, and also statistic finds that abortionist have higher rate of breast cancer.
Hence, to prevent sex before marriage, which might leads to abortion, young couples should obtain education about safe sex. Using contraception and birth control pills will also help, nonetheless, it is still highly recommended for young people to wait to have sex with their partner until they are married.

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