ABORTION ACTIVITY
Activity:
● Should abortion be allowed?
● Is it a religious or legal issue?
I was born and raised in a Catholic country where abortion is
considered illegal, and as a result, my previous self is opposed to it. My
position on this issue evolved only in my late junior high school years because
of countless discourse and conversation that I read on various social media
platforms. The arguments of pro-abortion supporters make more sense to me than
those of anti-abortion supporters. They made me realize that growing up in a
Catholic country should not be a barrier to abortion because it is more of a
legal issue. Other people's religious beliefs have no influence on it because
not everyone shares their beliefs and they are not the ones bearing the child.
The decision of a pregnant mother to abort her child should not involve any
religion because it is not, according to popular belief, an act of murder. You
cannot say that a woman killed a person because the child inside her womb is
not a person yet until it reaches 7 months. So using any pills, such as the
"morning-after pill," cannot be deemed an abortion, nor can abortion
before 7 months of pregnancy. Still, if a mother chooses to terminate her child
during its 7-month stay in her womb, I will not object because it is her body
and her choice to make.
Abortion should not be an issue in the first place since society
should not have authority over how a woman treats her body and makes decisions
about it. This is why contraception should be a personal choice rather than a
community regulation. It is entirely up to the women to decide what they want
to do with their bodies, whether to use or not use contraceptives. Others
should not interfere with their decision-making because what if the woman is a
single mother with no financial resources to support the child. Society cannot
do anything to help this child because it is not their responsibility to raise
him or her. That is why, only the woman who will bear a child has the power
to choose whether to obey or refuse to conform to the society's
expectations.