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Argumentative Essay - a discussion about abortion
Course: Political Economy (POLIECO)
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This society has been acquainted with specific privileges that lone a gathering of individuals can
accomplish, this incorporates the choice of an individual to choose and decide for their own body. It has
been centuries and decades yet women are as yet battling for equal rights and reasonable social
standing with men. This isn't simply as far as discrimination, stereotypes and standards yet in addition to
the sharing of reasonable obligation to bearing and raising a life and future of a human being. The issue
in regards to abortion has stayed widespread and critical across the entire world including the
Philippines. It remains a contradicting battle of profound ethics, morals and law which stirs scathing
discourse and debates from the opposition parties of the conservatives and liberals. In this concept
paper the two opposing beliefs of pro-life and pro-choices will be both given an insight to the argument
whether abortion should be legalized in the Philippines or not and to be able to draw the fine line of the
reasons, situations and consequences of people and their choices when it comes to terms with abortion.
Abortion as defined by Grimes, 2020 is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it
can survive outside the uterus. As known across the world, abortion remains a taboo topic to most
countries and Philippines is not an exemption. Philippines is self-identified as a religious country
especially as a Catholic in which abortion goes against the morals and laws of these religious institutions.
As identified by most existing laws by religious beliefs and the constitution, abortion is considered as a
form of murder even If it still a fetus or an embryo it has the same and equal rights as a human being. On
the other hand, the liberals firmly stand with the pro-choice, it is giving the free will to a woman to
choose what to do on her own body. People who are pro-choice doesn’t necessarily makes them pro-
abortion, they identify themselves as an individual who has a mutual respect to the choices of other
people and understands that it is not their body for them to decide to.
It has been proven, through struggles and over time that women prevails and this may include their
choice to choose for their own body. The two opposing sides of pro-life and pro-choice has its own sets
of beliefs and stands when it comes to legalizing abortion that are distinct from one another. Every
woman who chooses to undergo abortion has their own stories and reasons to tell that may not be valid
for others but this may vary from health matters that may compromise the life of the mother, it may also
because of victims of rape or sexual harassments. Other reasons that might also occur are in terms of
emotional, mental, physical or financial preparedness of the parents especially in considering the life and
future of the baby that will be born and also the lack of shared responsibility in certain scenarios that the
father of the child refuses to take responsibility and all the burden of pregnancy and future of the child is
left on the mother alone. These are the common reasons on why women choose to go through this
process even if it considered illegal and extremely dangerous for the health and safety of a woman
because of unauthorized or unlicensed physician or personnel who holds the scalpel. The pro-life or the
conservatives are usually people from religious groups who have strong and unwavering respect to their
morals and the law of God. On the contrary to this popular belief, the group of pro-choice or the liberals
also dares to go against the norms of the society. These group of people stands with women and their
own choices for their own bodies. No other people can make decisions and laws about a woman’s body
other than herself. Over the several years, 56 million under the table abortions have been performed
and this causes a lot of deaths and health complications to women. Instead of the government trying to
stop people with going through abortion, a strict set of rules for case-to-case basis for abortion should
be implemented instead. We cannot let or force all women to conform that is why we protect them. In
addition, if we are really considering being a pro-life, we should also consider the life of the baby after
they are born. With the kind
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