ABORTION SHOULD NOT BE DONE BECAUSE RISK MOTHER’S HEALTH

Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. In the other words, abortion means abort the baby birth with your full consciousness. Why this action still exist? And what’s something bad about that? Abortion is more than an idea but it’s a hard reality. It is the quickest way to terminate the embryo on the mother ‘s womb and it absolutely affect the health condition of mother. In Indonesia, abortion strictly forbidden by law on KUHP Pasal 346 “Seorang wanita yang sengaja menggugurkan atau mematikan kandungan atau menyuruh orang lain untuk itu , diancam dengan pidana penjara paling lama empat tahun” But still, there are some women who choose abortion as their solution to pregnancy. Reports from detikhealth have shown about 2,5 million abortion every year. Abortion claim to be the safest medical procedures to terminate baby birth. According to vemale.com, a lots of serious risk will come during abortion or in a later day such as death suddenly and cancer. In this essay, we contend that abortion should not be done because risk mother’s health. It might be argued that abortion can be done because there is no other options for unwanted pregnancy. As we know, people beliefs holds important rule to run the society, it makes some women must take an action to keep the unwanted pregnancy a secret and not being heard by society. Pregnant is an evidence for unmarried women and it being considered as a family shame and disgrace. However, abortion have a high risk effect to mother physical health. It’s not about easily doesn’t have any other options. Mentioned in balipost.com dr.Made Darmayasa Sp. OG.(K). abortion have effects to short period and long period risk such as sudden death due to bleeding, slow death due to a serious infection around the womb. For the long period effect to mother will be worst such as infertile and many kinds of cancer (cervix, breast, liver, and ovarian). It is harm the mother’s body. Another reason supporting abortion is to protect rape victim from trauma. It might be argued that, women who experienced a violence such as rape feel depressed and guilty because they are pregnant against her will. A pregnancy caused by rape sometimes abort because she wants to erase the trauma. The baby can be a reminder of a terrible accident in the past. One of the way out which think in their mind is to lose it by abortion. But it needs to be considered thousand time because abortion also have an effect on psychological health of mother. The trauma, the memories, all of the horror will tragically leave an imprint on that simply can’t be erased by erasing the pregnancy (Stephanie Gray, 2013). This mental and emotional sickness called as “Post Abortion Syndrome”. The symptoms are noted in Psychological Reactions Reported After Abortion (David C. Reardon, 1994) are loss of self-confidence, shout hysterical, constant nightmare about baby, want to commit suicide, begins to use drugs, no longer able to enjoy sexual intercourse, and eating disorder such as bulimia and anorexia. Negative feeling about abortion become worse when the mother gets married, want to start pregnant, and saw the information about fetus development in the media. Abortion is not only about idea of terminate the unwanted baby but it is a feeling of mother. Solution can be take such as gave birth and adoption to orphanage so other people who want to adopt could bear and take care of the baby. It has been said that it is a women’s right to have an abortion. It claims by National Abortion Federation (NAF), 2010 that abortion has become one of the safest medical procedures in the country. They served and treat the patients best and provide women high quality doctor to do abortion. By keeping abortion legal, it beliefs to help protect the lives and safety of women facing unplanned pregnancies. The right of abortion is really important to individual women to reach their full potential. It symbolize the full freedom of women as having a human rights. However, unborn baby life has meaning. Indeed, President of America Ronald Reagan on his essay Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation said :
“Our society has, fortunately, become sensitive to the rights and special needs of the handicapped, but I am shocked that physical or mental handicaps of newborns are still used to justify their extinction. This Administration has a Surgeon General,
Dr. C. Everett Koop, who has done perhaps more than any other American for handicapped children, by pioneering surgical techniques to help them, by speaking out on the value of their lives, and by working with them in the context of loving families. You will not find his former patients advocating the so-called "quality-oflife" ethic. I know that when the true issue of infanticide is placed before the American people, with all the facts openly aired, we will have no trouble deciding that a mentally or physically handicapped baby has the same intrinsic worth and right to life as the rest of us.”
Think of one baby one unborn baby her life has meaning, regardless if she/he has such disability such as down syndrome, she had her value. All human life is valuable. We can’t say that one life is more valuable than another. It is all about facing and accept something we cannot change. In conclusion abortion should not be done because risk mother’s health. The reasons women choose abortion are facing shame from unwanted pregnancy, protect rape victim from trauma, and believe that women have rights to do abortion. But we must remember that abortion have a great impact on physical and mental health of the mother. Abortion have short period problem to physical health of the mother such as death suddenly nad the long period effect such as infertile and cancer. Abortion also give impact to mental health such as Post Abortion Syndrome Abortion . It is when the mother experience symptoms like loss of confidence, shout hysterical, and constant nightmare about baby, and even worse want to commit suicides and begin to use drugs. When talking about rights, we have to realize that unborn baby life also has meaning. There is no reason that one life is more valuable than others.

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