Реферат: Untitled Essay Research Paper Abortion Life

prolong her life much less save it.” As an opponent to abortion, I will readily agree, as will all those who are against

abortion, that pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is a tragedy. Rape is a detestable crime, but no sane reasoning

can place the slightest blame on the unborn child it might produce. Incest is, if that is possible, even worse, but for

centuries, traditional Jewish law has clearly stated, that if a father sins against his daughter (incest) that does not justify a

second crime – the abortion of the product of that sin. The act of rape or incest is the major emotional physical trauma

to the young girl or women. Should we compound the psychic scar already inflicted on the mother by her having the

guilt of destroying a living being which was at least half her own? Throughout history, pregnant women who for one

crime or another were sentenced to death, were given a stay of execution until after the delivery of the child: it being the

contention of courts that one could not punish the innocent child for the crime of the mother. Can we punish it for a

crime against the mother? If rape occurred the victim should immediately report the incident. If this is done, early

reporting of the crime will provide greater opportunity for apprehension and conviction of the rapist, for treatment of

venereal disease and prevention of pregnancy. Let is give our children good sex education; and let us get tough on

pornography, clean up the newstands, literature and “Adult Movies” and television programmes which encourage crime,

abusive drugs and make mockery of morality and good behaviour and therefore, contribute to rape. By some peculiar

trick of adult logic, proponents of abortion talk about fetal indications for act. Whatever abortion may do for the

mother, it so very obviously cannot be therapeutic for the fetus. Death is hardly a constructive therapy. As Dr. Hellegers

of John Hopkins Hospital says, “While it is easy to feel that abortion is being performed for the sake of the fetus,

honesty requires us to recognize that we perform it for adults”. There is no evidence to indicate that an infant with

congenital or birth defect would rather not be born since he cannot be consulted. This evidence might exist if suicides

were common among people with congenital handicaps. However, to the contrary, these seem to value life, since the

incidence of suicide is less than that of the general population. Can we choose death for another while life is all we

ourselves know? Methods are being developed to diagnose certain defects in the infants of mothers at risk before the

infant is born. The fluid around the fetus can be sampled and tested in a very complicated fashion. If we kill infants with

confidential defects before they are born, why not after birth, why not any human being we declare defective? It is no

surprise of course for many of us to learn that in hospitals across North American Continent such decisions affecting the

newborn and the very elderly or those with incurable disease, are being made. What is a defect, what is a congenital

defect? Hitler considered being 1/4 Jewish was a congenital defect incompatible with the right to life. Perhaps you have

all heard this story : One doctor saying to another doctor, “About the termination of a pregnancy, I want your opinion.

The father was syphilitic (venereal disease). The mother tuberculous (small lumps on skin). Of the four children born,