Essay 2: Should Abortion Be Legalized?

Abortion legalization is always a controversial issue in the world. I think that no matter what the law is legal or illegal, the abortion do occur in the society. Therefore, abortion is operated legally than illegally. As in America, the regulations are valid. The rate of the abortion is becoming lower and lower. Between 2000 and 2005, the study by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on social issues, the number of abortions performed yearly dropped from 1.3 million to 1.2 million, the fewest since 1974. Now that legal law of abortion does lower the rate of making an abortion and surely occurs in the world, we can make it licit, then supervise it restrictive and make it safe, and prevent conception effective.
Some human right organizations argue that each human has right to live. They claim that we can’t kill a growing living to death and deprive their rights to grow up. However, what about the mother’s feeling? Some women are conceiving a baby under an unbearable reason such as the reason that the mother is raped for having a baby. Under this situation, should the mother have no right to decision to do the surgery? She is forced to have a sex and have a baby accidentally. How can she face her babies whom she delivers? Besides that, some mothers do not have a good physical condition to have a baby. If they insist delivering infants, it will not only have a highly possibility of death to the mother and the child. For example, people who have severe heart attack and asthma are not suitable for conceiving a baby because during the period of pregnancy, the mother don’t have sufficient physical strength to support herself and give energy to her baby. In order to avoid the tragedy of two lives, the only way is to make an abortion. However, this action is based on the right of human live.
Law, restrictive or liberal, doesn’t influence a woman’s decision to have an abortion. As in Taiwan, the restrictions are very strict; nevertheless, the rate of abortion in Taiwan, especially in September of every year is still very high. According to the statistics from the Bureau of Public Health, the research shows that those who search a way to do the surgery is through the illicit passage such as unqualified doctor or taking the forbidden pills, RU-486. The research also indicated that the number of death from the unlawful way is extremely high and the age of the dead is around 16 to 24, the blossoming age of a woman. As in Thailand, abortion in there is illegal. Ironically, a survey shows that Thailand‘s mortality ratio of illegal abortions is ten times than that of legal passages. Even if the law is restrictive, it can’t avoid effectively lowering the number of abortion.
A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not. I compare the Taiwan’s and America’s number of abortion. In Taiwan, the regulation concerning the abortion is conditional and not loose; on the contrary, in US, the law of abortion is liberal. I found an interesting survey between Taiwan and the US. The research indicates that the abortion rate in Taiwan is five times than that in America. Besides, abortion is illegal in most of Africa. However, in Ethiopia, its Health Ministry said that abortion is the second-leading cause of death among women admitted to hospitals. Another study said that it is the cause of 13 percent of maternal deaths at hospitals in Nigeria.
In South Africa, the procedure was made legal in 1996; some studies found that it leaded to a 90 percent decrease in mortality among women who had abortions. Therefore, the above information shows that legalized the law can make government effectively supervise the procedure of doing the surgery.
Besides passing the law, the government should pay more attention to the education of contraception. Now that the action of abortion is unavoidable, we make it legalized rather than make it clandestine. Once the law is legalized, the government can watch the medical system, and train certificated doctors to do safe surgery and to prescribe the proper dose of pills to abortion women. It not only protects the lives of the mother but also avoids the abuse of RU-486. At the same time, with the safe system of abortion to women, the administration also promotes the prevention and the knowledge of contraception. For example, in America, the recent surveys show that the education of contraception does work to lower the unplanned pregnancies. The Guttmacher Institute’s president, Sharon Camp, said that almost two-thirds of the decline in the total number of abortions, which also shows that no abortion restriction with a commitment to real sex education helps women avoid unintended pregnancies.
The problem of abortion occurs in every country. The aim of law making is to reduce or decline the problems happen. Wavering between the two sides that is legal or not, we take a side that will make the procedure performed far easier and make the prevention done even easier than that of the other side. Therefore, I insistently argue that we should pass the law of abortion and at the same time, promote the complete education of contraception.