Nowadays biotechnologies are dramatically more developing than that of a past era. The more biotechnologies are born, the more problems are made. These are some examples, euthanasia, IVF and cloning. These issues have been discussed all over the world because they have many problems causing ethical dilemmas. One of the issues of bioethics is abortion. Abortion makes it possible that a woman decides her childbirth. In other words, she can choose whether she has a baby or not. However, this decision makes dilemmas. This paper will discuss which is the better choice between women having an abortion and not having an abortion, and suggest that people should avoid having abortion even if there seems to be some situations that women have an abortion.
Before beginning, it is necessary to know that there are two types of supporters. They are pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice people support having an abortion. On the other hand, pro-life people support having a baby. Each of them has several reasons why women need to do it or not. One of the reasons why women need abortions is undesirable pregnancy due to the crime like rape. Japan National Police Agency reported that about 2000 rapes were occurred from 2001 to 2005, but this data is only case which was reported by victims. Thus, there might be more cases because it was not easy for victims with mental injury to report their tragedy. In order to avoid undesirable pregnancy, Japanese law permits an abortion if a pregnancy is the result of rape (Researchers). In this case, abortion seems to be a significant way because women never want pregnancy caused by rape and never want such childbirth. It is difficult that a woman defends herself physically when a man attacks her. Generally men are stronger than women. Therefore, the law of abortion is helpful to women.
In addition to the above, there is another reason why women need abortion. Pro-choice people are worried about women’s social and economical factors that lead to abortion (Tom). To raise a child costs a large sum of money. According to AIU Insurance office, if having a child it costs at least 30 million yen. Recently the birth rate is decreasing in Japan, and parents pay more money to raise their child because today people are wanted not a number of children but a child who have a lot of skills, but to learn skills costs much money. The problem is that if parent is too young or single it is hard to pay much money because their income is usually low. These parents have to work hard, but a hard life makes them stressful, and also raising a child is stressful. As a result, a child abuse sometimes occurs. They need a time of relax supported by surrounding people. However, the present state in Japan is not enough. Therefore, such people who have social and economical problems can't help but have an abortion.
On the other hands, pro-life people think not only a child's right to live but also the influences on mother. One of them is safety of abortion. According to WHO, 19 million unsafe abortions still occur around the world annually and that 68,000 of these result in the woman's death (Unsafe abortion). It is surprised that abortion has a possibility of killing mother instead of death of an unborn baby. Therefore, if abortion has a factor causing mother’s death, people should not have an abortion or people need to know it and need to pay attention to other possibilities of death due to infectious diseases or complications before having an abortion or getting pregnant.
Furthermore, another influence is mental anguish. Women who have abortions have risk of depression and other mental illness (Bennett). In addition, Reardon mentions that the existence of trauma after abortion is now almost universally accepted, and also abortion is always stressful. Whether a person can cope with this stress depends on the condition. When a woman's psychological state is already fragile, the stress of an abortion can more easily distress her. That is because a feeling of guilt for killing an unborn baby makes a person suffered. Therefore, in order to alleviate that feeling, it is necessary that surrounding people support her as well as she thinks about these in advance.
Comparing the idea of pro-choice people with that of pro-life people, both sides have some advantages and disadvantages. Having an abortion prevents undesirable childbirth and economical worries, but at the same time abortion has a lost child and leads a woman to die or at least causes a woman a feeling of guilt for killing her unborn baby. Although not having an abortion include a possibility of spending much money because of a new family member, it gives us great hope.
In conclusion, abortion should not be done even if there are some hard situations because it is possible to solve the problems.
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