Of abortion

To throw a life away. How does it feel? How does it feel to murder someone? To cull the life of a child.

Abortion. There are many reasons why it happens, and there are many reasons why it shouldn't.

The reasons for a mother to go through with abortion's many. Perhaps she's too young. She may not be ready to have children. She may not be ready and mature enough for motherhood. Or perhaps blame it on financial instability. Or marriage. How would it look for a single woman to have a child? And the list just goes on.

Pregnancy marks the beginning to a vast change to a woman's life. One that she may not be ready for. Thus are the reasons for abortion. Selfish? Perhaps. Painful? Yes.

The reason why it shouldn't be done is faily simple. It is murder. Though some would say that would be debatable.

How is it murder if the child does not have a personality or any obvious signs of being fully developed or human? The time when the conceived child is said to have a life in itself is debatable. Some say it is alive from the point when the ovum was first fertilised, others when the first clot of blood comes into being. There are others still who believe that life first begins when the brain and heart first develops.

So is it fine to destroy it before such stages in the foetus' development begins? Let us look at things a little differently.

The conceived child, is an organism with its own set of DNA (Dioxyribonucleic acid). Its own unique set of chromosomes. It is ready to begin its journey to growing. It had begun as two sepparate beings. A sperm and an egg. They joined together and within that moment became one. They become the foetus. So I ask now. Is it alive? Is it human? You be the judge.

Be it murder or otherwise, the reasons why women choose to go through with abortion are understandable; though fairly debatable No matter how you look at it, culling a life before its birth is an ugly thing.

Beyond abortion here's always adoption. And contraceptives. There's always the choice of reducing the chances of pregnancy via avoidance. So why choose abortion?

Fertility is highly prized and children are a gift of God to bring joy to our eyes. It is sad to see them being thrown away just like that.

Though it may seem like the easy way around things, it's far from it. Abortion is a painful affair, for the child as well as the mother.

The amount of mental torture that would drive a mother to kill her own child, is immense. And the pressure would hardly lessen after that. For the weight of losing a child would remain with her. Even though it's yet to be born. The pain will be something she will remember for the rest of her life. The pain of losing a part of herself. Of losing her child.Of abortion.