Abortion is one of the controversial topics I try to avoid. Whenever I see people discussing it, I quietly step away. It is not because I am scared that they will not agree with me. It is because I know everyone has strong and different opinions about it, and I am not knowledgeable enough to discuss it confidently. And to avoid giving the wrong opinion and misleading people, I feel it is best to just totally avoid them. However, now that this topic is a prompt for the Hive Learners’ weekly prompt, I have no choice but to share my thoughts. The topic for today is : Abortion or not.
What are your thoughts on abortion?
Now, before I start rambling about whether abortion is good or not, you should note that this is a topic I am not knowledgeable about, so this post will be filled with rhetorical questions and not the answers you are probably expecting.
“Abortion is a mortal sin. It is a sin that kills the soul.” This morning, I saw this on someone’s status. According to them, women should desist completely from abortion. Meaning that they should have the baby, regardless of the situation. Some people might say, “if you don’t want to be faced with the dilemma of terminating the baby or keeping it, then don’t have sex in the first place. It is the same thing as saying “if you don’t want to live your life in a prison forever, then don’t commit crimes.” But what many fail to understand is that life is not always that simple. Sometimes, it is not we who go to the problem, the problem comes to us.
Let’s use a university student as a case study. A 17 year old first year university student finds herself in an unfortunate situation; she was abused by an “animal” and got pregnant. She is left with the decision to either keep the baby whose father is an animal or terminate the baby. Now, if we should tell her to “keep the baby regardless of the circumstance,” would that be a good idea? In the future, when the child asks about the father, what do you think the mother would say? This whole thing is complex because children are blessings and that same child might turn out to be a golden child in the future? So, what do you do in this case?
When it comes to abortion, there are two approaches to it. First, the mistake approaches , which fits perfectly with the analogy I gave above: a person gets pregnant and finds themselves in a messy situation. On the other hand, there’s the international one. Nowadays, abortion is a form of escape. In my school, I have heard numerous news of young ladies who aborted pregnancies. Not once. Not twice. But multiple times. They are not even scared of having unprotected sex, because if it comes to it, all they’d have to do is terminate it and to make matters worse, there are so many doctors out there who do it as long as they pay them.
What these people do not know is that they are slowly ruining their lives. When you abort consecutively, there will definitely be repercussions and it is only a matter of time before they start seeing the consequences of their actions.
I'll put it this way: I wouldn't say abortion is a good thing. However, people who find themselves in unfortunate situations should be left to make the decision whether to keep it or not, without being judged. For example, if a girl was abused by someone who takes the form of a human being, she should be left to make the decision, and not be judged, regardless of what she decides.
More importantly, abortion is not a form of escape. You're free to have fun with your partner, but be sensible about it.
Thanks for reading.
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