You are not “murdering an innocent person”. The “innocent person” is going to die anyway.
zerinus
The doctor isn’t killing the mother. He is trying to save the life of both the mother and child. I don’t know when it was proclaimed by someone that trying to save someone’s life but in the process fails to save the life of the other constitute as murder.
zerinus,
Most of the abortions that have been done in the US has not be in the sole reason of saving a life of a mother, rape, or incests.
Consider the following factors,
A 1998 aggregated study, from 27 countries, on
the reasons women seek to terminate their pregnancies concluded that common factors cited to have influenced the abortion decision were:
- desire to delay or end childbearing, concern over the interruption of work or education, issues of financial or relationship stability, and perceived immaturity.
A 2004 study in which American women at clinics answered a questionnaire yielded similar results. In Finland and the United States, concern for the health risks posed by pregnancy in individual cases was not a factor commonly given.
However, in Bangladesh, India, and Kenya health concerns were cited by women more frequently as reasons for having an abortion.[7] 1% of women in the 2004 survey-based U.S. study became pregnant as a
result of rape and 0.5% as a result of incest.
Now that’s pretty low for justifying it.
[8] Another American study in 2002 **concluded that 54% of women who had an abortion were using a form of contraception at the time of becoming pregnant while 46% were not. **
Inconsistent use was
reported by 49% of those using condoms and 76% of those using the combined oral contraceptive pill; 42% of those using condoms reported failure through slipping or breakage.
In the United Kingdom, a 1994 survey of sexual behavior found that
women who reported having an abortion were more likely to be of a higher social class, as well as either cohabitating or divorced. It also found that
women who stated they have had 10 or more sexual partners in their lifetime were five times more likely to have had an abortion than those who stated they have had only one sexual partner.
There has also been side effects of abortion on women. They suffered what is called Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, or Post Abortion Syndrone.
Dr. Pravin Thevathasan (is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Shrewsbury) states,
The woman experiences the abortion event. There is then a latency period during which she appears to cope well. This is then followed by the person experiencing a cluster of symptoms including intrusive memories and flashbacks of the event, vivid nightmares, repeated reliving of the trauma, a persistent sense of numbness, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression and suicidal feelings. The psychologically self-protective symptoms include denial and aversion from painful reminders of the trauma. The proposal that Post Abortion Trauma is a form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has led over the years to the developmentofa number of excellent treatment models.
One of the reasons to justify abortion is the state of the mental health of the woman. There have been women (who went through the abortion process) who testify against abortion. I hardly think abortion itself is pro-woman, but rather it is anti-woman. It degrades the woman’s role in God’s pro-creative plan, and degrades the infant as a mere property of the individual (kinda like a slave).
Abortion is wrong and it should be banned period. If people would have just listen to God not to have pre-marital sins, and become careless about themselves and turn sex as a means of entertaining, none of this would have happen. Yet, people sin. They are lured into this world’s material wants and desires. They replace what is good with evil. Abortion is just one of those manifestations of evil.
