Реферат: Untitled Essay Research Paper Abortion Life

done?” “I would have ended the pregnancy”. “Then you would have murdered Beethoven”. Not content with the

Abortion Act of 1969 which allows 40,000 unborn children to be killed legally in our country in 1973, many noisy and

emotional people are campaigning for abortion on request. They are aided by a crusading, misguided press and media

which continues to utter as fact, the fiction of fertile imaginative minds. We have been told by the media that the majority

of Canadians wish to have abortion legalized but the latest census taken by the Toronto Star in March of 1989 reports

that 35% of those polled thought that abortion was already easy to obtain, 26% thought it too hard, 19% about right

and 21% had no opinion. Men more then women thought it too hard. Even if the majority did want it, this does not

make it right. Centuries ago, most Americans thought slavery was right. The elected leaders of this country must have

the wisdom and integrity for what is right, not for what might be politically opportune. One of the uttered justifications

for abortion on demand is that every women should have the mastership of her own body, but should she? To quote

Dr. Edwin Connow, “Should she have the right for what is really judicial execution of new life – not a cat, not a chicken

but a human being – not only potential but actual”. In a society one is not totally free to do what one will with one’s own

body (we don’t have the right to get drunk or high on drugs and drive down Young Street.) The great concern has been

shown for the innocent victims of highjacking but what is abortion but this? The highjacking without reprieve, of an

innocent passenger out of his mother’s womb. Should we really leave the right to hijack as a personal decision only?

Those campaigning for further liberalization of the abortion law, hope to make abortion available and safe for all who

wish it during a pregnancy. Qualifications have been placed on the abortion on demand routine by other groups, for

example, a time limit for the duration of pregnancy or clause that the operation be performed in an accredited hospital.

Before exploring the reality of so-called safe abortion, let me tell you a little method of procuring an abortion. Before 13

weeks of pregnancy, the neck of the womb is dilated – a comparatively easy procedure in someone who has already

had a child – much more difficult if childbirth has not occurred. The products of conception in many hospitals are

removed but a suction apparatus – considered safe and better that the curettal scraping method. After 13 weeks

pregnancy, the fetus is too big to be removed in this was and either a dangerous method of injection a solution into the

womb is carried out, this salting out method results in the mother going into what is really a miniature labour and after a

period of time, expelling a very dead often skinned baby. In some hospitals because of the danger of this procedure to

the mother, an operation like a miniature Caesarean section called a hysterotomy has to be performed. There area also

many other methods. Let us now look if we can, at consequences of such license to kill an individual too small to cry for

it’s own protection. Abortion by suction curettage is not just as simple as a pelvic examination performed in a doctor’s

office as Dr. Morgentaler and the television programe W5 who were doing a great disservice to young women in