Venita Coelho wrote:
> If we now recognize that a woman is not the property of a man, then the
> choice of whether to carry
> a child in her body or not is also hers. If we recognise that the state has
> no business interfering in
> the private matter of personal reproduction, then the choice is a woman's
> alone. And it is high time
> we recognized that religion has no business imposing its choices on the body
> of a woman.
Venita,
This is one of the best arguments that I have read on the pro-abortion cause
and I am an anti-abortionist.
Your arguments make sense in the Indian and/or near poverty environment.
> Conceiving a child and holding it in your body is a deeply intimate
> meaningful thing that only a woman
> can understand. And only a woman knows what a deep sense of sadness and loss
> she will then carry
> when she has made her choice. But the choice is hers and hers alone. The
> decision of whether to bear
> a child or not is best left to the conscience of the mother. (ENDS)
The mental results of the decision to terminate a pregnancy are not
always known or manifested immediately.
The conscience does not necessary act immediately. I have met more than one
woman who had their
conscience trouble them years/decades after having an abortion. Believe me, it
is really sad to see a woman
lament for the child she could not have.
Mervyn1138Lobo
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