Abortion is one of the most worst cases among teenagers nowadays. It

happens not only in Malaysia but also all over the world. I have read and researched

a journal by Lisa B. Haddad and Nawal M. Nour about abortion with the title “Unsafe

Abortion: Unnecessary Maternal Mortality”. In this article, the writers had rised a lot

of issues about abortion and explained lot of facts.

The main issue discussed in this article is the safety and risks of doing an

abortion. The writers had given some statistics about the number of abortions and

how many of failures worldwide. Reading about this issue, I as a women felt scared

and worried. This is because it is frightening to know how many women, especially

unmarried lose their lives because of abortion. I think that if this trend continues,

there will be death issues in lots of countries all around the world. According to Amy

Sobie (2012) from LifeNews.com, abortion increases a woman’s death risk 45%. So,

I personally think that risk of abortion should be educated to every female starting

from primary school. This is because they will easily understand more about the

effects of abortion when they grow up. This can reduce the risk of death by abortion.

The writers also discussed about the methods used in performing an abortion.

They stated that even safe abortion in developing nations carries risks. But the sad

issue is the methods used for unsafe abortions. I was shocked to know that women

would do things such as drinking toxic fluids and inflicting direct injury to themselves

just to do abortion. The World Health Organisation estimates that unsafe abortions

cause the deaths of at least 200 women each day, over 70,000 women each year,

yet it is one of the most easily preventable and treatable causes of maternal

mortality. I seriously feel that If the government did not take pecautionary steps, the

type of abortion called backstreet abortion will be practiced widely. This could lead to

the increase in crime rate indirectly.

The next point highlighted by the writers is the effects caused by abortion. The

writers had discussed about the complications from abortion. I support with the

writers’ point because abortion has already caused a lots of effects not only among

women but also for the nation. Even though the writer stated about a lot of physical

complications, I also think there are emotional effects. The negative effects are like

regret and depression. Apart from negative effects, from my research, I also found

out there are positive effects. According to American Pregnancy Association some

women report a sense of relief after having an abortion. Even though surprised, I

think it is common reaction because they will be happy for not getting caught.

Relationship with the abortion law is also another topic discussed by the

writers in this journal. According to the writers, abortion laws have a spectrum of

restrictiveness where nations may allow abortions based on several factors. Here,

there are two types of countries which allows abortion and countries with restrictive

abortion laws. I have found out that most of the abortion death cases occurs in

countries with strict laws. Even so, I don’t think abortion should be legal in every

country. But it should be made illegal and more strict laws be introduced. This is

because teens won’t lose their morality and have pre-marital sex. They wll also learn

to have safe sex with their partners. According to Linda Lowen, a former radio/ TV

broadcast journalist who has won national awards for her coverage of women's

issues, most women commit abortion because they don't want others to know about

their pregnancy or that she is having sex.

One of the ideas of the writers is liberalizing abortion laws to allow services to

be openly provided can reduce the rate of abortion-related morbidity and mortality.

Of course this act can reduce unsafe abortions. But what will happen to the question

of morality. Theodore Roosevelt, a former President of The United States has quoted

that “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to

society.” So, I think morality should be first on anything we do. After reading so much

about abortion, now I clearly think that morality and abortion cannot be togather.This

is because both are like enemies. So I think that this idea is not relevant for the

abortion issue.

Lastly, one of the facts by the writers that touched me is abortion-related

deaths leave 220,000 children motherless. It is really sad to think about this because

life without mother will be a complicated one. Can you imagine a child growing up

without proper care? This will cause the child to become a socially abused child.

First of all, can these children survive and grow up. So, I feel this could lead to other

social issue. The reason is because these children will face psychological

phenomena. According to Joel M. Charon, a professor emeritus of sociology at

Minnesota State University had stated in his research that social problems caused

by biological, physical, or psychological phenomena. So, abortion should be

prevented at any cost.

As a conclusion, lot of information about abortion could be learned from this

journal. The writers have done a lot of research to produce this journal. It is very

informative and full of quality. My overall opinion is young teens and older people

should be taught what an abortion really is. They should know that abortions make

things worse, this makes it harder and it's not a good choice. It is a big controversy

today and it always will be. Therefore, abortion is not the right choice and there are

other options then to get an abortion.

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