”I have noticed that those who go for abortion have once been a fetus and went through conception before coming into this world.” A quote from Ronald Reagan (https://www.goodreads.com). During the last twenty years, abortion has been a controversial issue in the United States and most countries of the world including Papua New Guinea as a whole. According to the World Health Organization (http://apps.who.int ), “abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus is capable of having a life.” There is always the freedom of choice in everything that we do and there are always consequences to the decisions that we make. Hence this essay will discuss and unfold abortion in terms of; health, morals and ethics, and social and cultural perspectives of abortion.
World Health has recognized that abortion constitutes an important health problem. There are many health-related issues that a woman encounters after abortion not just physical health problems, but mental and emotional also. After an abortion, a woman finds it very difficult to do and carry out the daily responsibilities of a normal woman. According to the World Health Organization (https://www.cspregnancycenter.com), there are many health-related issues. These are;” After abortion, the woman may feel some kind of headache, dizziness, and cramping, but as time passes by there are a lot of long-term effects of abortion such as; premature deaths, cervical incompleteness, low birth weight deliveries, infertility, lower general health, endometritis, ectopic pregnancy, placenta previa, death from cardiovascular disorder, sleep disorders and other mental health problems.” All in all, the above health issues are all related to death if no proper treatment is given to them (Liskin, 1980). However, many couples agree and go for abortions thinking that everything will be all right without knowing the consequences. Most teenage girls around the world including Papua New Guinea as a whole go for abortion when the father of the child does not want the baby and also they are scared of their parents because most parents are very abusive. This makes most of them die at the hands of an unskilled abortionist.
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Furthermore, as it is written in the bible in Exodus 20.13, ” Do not kill” is also the constitution of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea which falls under the Criminal Code Act 1974. Hence, those who kill should face the consequences of their actions. However, most people say that the fetus is not a human until conception. So the mother has every right to decide what to do to the fetus because she has every right to her own body. However, it is not that, it is still killing a human life. People should take into account the life at hand and give the fetus the human rights it deserves. If they did not want the baby, then why should they have sex in the first place they should have taken into consideration the results of their actions because the gift of life only comes from God, and it is very precious. In Psalm 139 it says” For you formed my inwards parts; you knitted me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” God himself formed them and loved them when they were in their mother's womb so you could not take away their life just like that. Furthermore, those who did not want babies in the first place should have to control their bodies or stay abstinent. Everyone wants to live no one wants to die. That also implies that the fetus as time passes will still be able to live and carry out the life process the same as us.
Albert Schweitzer’s ethic of reverence for life (Steinbock,1992, p.12) ” Life is sacred, therefore, it is good to maintain and cherish life.” Life is very precious and everybody wants to live the same as us. Even though we could say that life only begins at conception, but actually before we form in our mother's womb the Lord already has plans for us and he knew us as it is written in Jeremiah 1:1. Moreover, the claim made by Schweitzer, ”we want to live we should respect the claim of others to live.” The Lord has given us this consciousness to think and act accordingly, but he also gave us the willpower to choose between right and wrong. The human being should take into consideration whether our actions are ethical or not, and what kind of effects it has on others.
According to the Melanesian culture, most women who abort their children are considered unworthy and are rejected by most men. Those are the type of women who lost their values in the community and everything that they do or say does not have any effect on others and nobody wants to listen to them. As a result, this leaves a long-lasting scar on those women, even though they do not show it, mentally, physically, and emotionally they are hurt. Papua New Guinea is a land where people have many different kinds of customs and traditions. The belief in the spirit of different kinds of things. There are some societies people believe that if you take the life of an innocent person then their spirits will take your life also. However, we know that discriminating against our friends is unethical behavior, but everyone must face the consequences of their actions and this will teach them a lesson not to repeat the same mistake and this will make others see and follow.
Finally, in all aspects of life killing or taking away an innocent life is unethical behavior and is morally wrong. Everybody wants to live and no one wants to die. “Wrongful acts today can harm future people who had not yet born or conceived” quote from Professor James (Steinbock, 1992, p.92). Abortion can affect most women around the world both physically, mentally, and spiritually. Therefore, in every decision that we make, we must take into consideration our action whether it is ethical or unethical. John Locke presents the theory that” persons are beings with personality.” They are conscious beings with thoughts, feelings, memories, anticipations, and another sociological state (https://philosophy.com ). If we keep saying the fetus is not a human being, then we are human beings too.
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