Abortion

Perhaps no other topic mentioned in this weblog has caused as much public rumpus and controversy as abortion. All political and public fractions, every religion and person on the street will have his own view on this matter. Is it moral? Is it safe? Is it right? There are those who consider an act of abortion to be murder, explaining that even the tiniest fetus in the womb is already a human being. Others say that we become human only after we are born and introduced to the principals of civilized life. In some countries abortion is legal and considered a normal medical practice. In other places abortion has to be practiced illegally and at great risk for the doctor and the patient. Probably for the next hundred years it will be impossible to say is abortion a good or a bad thing. However we can say that it is needed in some case, when we are dealing with a victim of rape, an underage person who doesn’t want to have the baby, a person whose baby will be born deformed or terminally sick. In such cases abortion is most often the easiest and safest way out.

An issue of BBC news ethical review, this week Abortion- http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/abortion/