Some religious people are right to accept the US court decision on limiting women’s right to abortion. They believe that the act is murder because life starts at conception. Increased access to sexual education, health insurance, and birth control would reduce abortion rates. However, religious actions create a culture of making life disposable making it challenging to determine the right and wrong sides of religion.
Firstly, I argue that the country should limit the right to abortion because life begins at conception. Certainly, abortion is a form of committing murder since fetus are considered living beings. The formation of a human begins when the sperm fertilizes the egg cell through cell division (Larose et al., 2019). At this moment, life starts because a new, integrated organism is created that is distinct. Indeed, the embryonic human is biologically diverse from other animals, and it has its DNA distinguished to make it considerably worth saving. Thus, ending such a life is murder ethically and legally, even if it has a few growing cells. The moment the organs start developing in the mother’s womb gives the unborn human life (Hussain, 2021). People who do the abortion should be aware that they are killing fellow humans.
Secondly, accepting abortion would promote a culture of making life disposable (Fuchs & Fuchs, 2021). Remarkably, abortion as an act shows an acceptance of a throw-away culture. It is the failure to recognize that life is sacred and should be maintained, hence doing the act shows that life at vulnerable moments can be disposable. The proposal targets poor women in society, symbolizing that it would be a solution to the complex situation. Abortion is connected to other social vices like racism which are symptoms of human error as explained by religious people who are against it.
The deeds show that the other person is less human and less worthy, but the perpetrator is a whole human, which is not the case. There is no justification for treating others differently and seeing them as lesser beings (Simkulet, 2019). People should start treating others how they want others to treat them; thus, such acts as abortion and racism would be things of the past. If it is not so, then accepting abortion would indicate that the elderly and the mentally disabled in society should be terminated, which people will view as immoral.
Thirdly, increased access to sexual education, health insurance, and birth control would reduce abortion rates, making it an unnecessary act (Fathalla, 2020). Notably, the rates have declined since the improvement of contraceptives and contraceptive implants that can also be up to 10 years old. Access to health insurance that pays for contraceptives leads to fewer abortions as many women are insured with low-cost and free contraceptives. Considering that most pregnancies are unplanned, the pills help decline the rate of the need to terminate the pregnancies. Sex education makes teens knowledgeable about sex activities, thus rarely becoming pregnant unintentionally hence lower abortions.
The proponents of other religious groups’ ideas state that abortion is safe and protects lives. However, it would be a grave mistake to accept the notion. It is not right to solve the problem of saving a life with other forms of injustice. There is a need to develop better solutions that support women’s safety without killing fetuses. For instance, there are effective birth control pills, sex education, and better health care that ensure that unwanted pregnancies do not happen in the first place.
References
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Fuchs, J. W., & Fuchs, J. R. (2021). Counteracting throwaway culture in daily clinical practice. The Linacre Quarterly, 88(1), 65-70. Web.
Hussain, A. (2021). Growth and development of children. Available at SSRN 3771757.
Larose, H., Shami, A. N., Abbott, H., Manske, G., Lei, L., & Hammoud, S. S. (2019). Gametogenesis: A journey from inception to conception. Current Topics in Developmental Biology, 132, 257-310. Web.
Simkulet, W. (2019). Substance, rights, value, and abortion. Bioethics, 33(9), 1002-1011. Web.