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I don't see how the fact that some people die from backdoor abortions should result in the legalisation of abortion.We should not make it possible to terminate more life in order to save the lives of the intending terminators

The focus should not be to protect adults but to protect the unborn who are entirely at the mercy of us and hence cannot protect themselves

bonheur:

maybe if the girl went to a general practitioner she may not have died.

naijacutee:


No, maybe if she had not condoned in illicit sex she would not have died.

**Update** I cannot believe the extent people go to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. So now it's the government fault that you didn't protect yourself when you chose to have illicit sex and get yourself pregnant? We women are at the receiving end of the consequences of thoughtless actions. Please let us think more!

BUT on the other hand i think abortion should be made legal. . . . . . it should be a thing of choice, if someone insists on having it despite the religious consequences then that should be their decision to make

Grouppoint:


from a biblical point of view, please consider this:
Jesus would probably not have been born since His mum was pregnant without a spouse. If abortion were legal in that time, she just may have had one.

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@Trini Girl

You are making distinctions that are unknown to law.


Go and hire an assasin to kill someone and see whether they won't charge you for murder

trini_girl:

@TayoD

Who is  guilty of "murder", the mother-to-be or the doctor? Maybe legally she's guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. 

The legal ramifications fall on the medical practitioner and not the mother of the child and she induces labour herself and aborts the child anyway.

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@trini girl

Give me a break.We were working under the presumption that there is a human to murder
You can't talk of conspiracy to commit murder if their is none to murder.

If there was a murder charge that could be made,both the mother and the doctor will be charged

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@trini girl

Its about the ethical issues sorrounding the practice.

NB:The person who put up the post is probably in Nigeria where the law is different from Tinidad

trini_girl:


I'm just saying so because whether or not we agree, it's still being done, and from a christian standpoint our focus should be on saving the soul of both mother and unborn.  If she dies then who wins?

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@trini

If you agree that the unborn have a soul,it is rather incredible that you think the best course of action is to give the mother the licence to terminate the unborn.

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Let's not kid ourselves,the number of women dieing from illicit abortion is relatively few compared to the number of abortions performed in the nations where the procedure is legal.While I know women who performed abortions,I do not know any woman has died during the procedure.

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There are 2 interests here-that of the unborn and that of the mother.In the former,it has no say in the procedure and depends entirely on the latter.The latter can chose to perform or not to perform the procedure .The latter is more powerful than the former

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I fail to see why the instrument of the law should be used to protect the powerful at the expense of the weak. Am sure if a poll was done of  people whose birth mothers contemplated aborting them,the overwhelming majority will express delight that the mother decided against it.

naijacutee:

My problem with this is that it's all really simple. So what if the law said abortion was legal? Would common sense still tell the mother, who had just willingly ended a future before it began, who out of her selfish will robbed a human out of his/her own free-will all in the name of choice. . . Would simple common sense tell this mother that this was right?

I believe that all humans - whatever the race, religion or belief . . . All psychologically healthy humans know what they ought to do and what they ought not to do.

trini_girl:

I wouldn't call it the best course of action.  The best course of action is to have the baby.  However, I have learned to separate law from personal belief.  Therefore, I can support the legalization of the procedure.

trini_girl:

Unless you have actual facts and statistical information to verify this statement it is irrelevant speculation.  You are opining  that just because you don't personally know of women who died from self induced abortion it's not a major problem.  I expect better.

trini_girl:

And it is this power of CHOICE that every human being has the right to execute. When it comes down to it there is not such thing as PRO Life when it comes to abortion.  Every mother has the right to choose, whether she aborts in a hospital or for herself.

trini_girl:

Perhaps you should revisit the purpose and intent of the law.  I think where people are being mislead is that they believe that making abortion legal somehow empowers women to have abortions.  Again, whether or not it becomes a legal procedure, it will be done.

trini_girl:


The focus of law is on the medical practitioner, as I said.  He/She is the only one who would suffer a detriment professionally.
Therefore, making it legal, only gives the doctor the peace of mind that if he/she is caught, there will be no legal repercussion.

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I think its clear I have won this debate_{just speaking to myself}

Ndipe:

abortion is murder, period!!!