1.
Introduction
The current period of this supersonic era is
devastated not only by the infringements of national calamities, religious
fanaticism and cross border attacks and isolated attacks to particular
denominations of belief and faith. However, this ultra modern, shallow and
morally vulnerable era is marked for it brutal nature of emotionally charged, psychologically
handicapped and retarded society in matters dealing with personal comforts and
securities. The marketed innocent human beings in large scale shifted the
nightmare term abortion to the school curriculum of today. The sense of
abortion crept in to the social mind by the crucial judgement by the Supreme
Court of US in the case of Roe v Wade[1] which
malformed the worth of human beings to merely monetary and customary price in the
marketing sensex. At times the economic value decides the value of human life
and relationship, a monetary value of the crown of creation. May I put forward a
generic question before I dive into my topic of this paper? Who are we to price
the human life and its dignity? How can you judge one not to live and impede
his or her desires to live? Why don’t you allow me to live? Am I a threat for
your existence? These are or might be the just interrogations I would like to
receive answers from you, since a foetus in the womb of a woman is helpless to
question your act aloud. The ramification of these deeds are not the
ratification to the social and individual problems that a woman might submit
herself to in spite of her brute and egocentric desires of pleasure which is
hypothetical in Kantian sense. We are all dump to listen to the cry of the
other since the beginning of the human existence in this world and deaf and
lame as well. The economic, scientific and overseas relationship and policies
of political nations can connive to these issues and take it as a sumptuous
dish for a hot fruitless debate and to raise the polls for their future
certainties and these booms of the country silence the mourn of unwanted foetus
in routine basis around the four walls of a hospice and to the margins of
clandestine issues. Here in this short paper may I concentrate myself and
oblige your attention to the voice and arguments that stand for and against the
culture of ‘murder in shadows’ as I call abortion , and its grotesque features
that impinge on the victims and the social dynamics. Prior to the notes to be penned down, may I
sincerely extend my gratitude to Dr. Roy Palatty CMI, for the investment of his
confidence on me, to have a study on this prowling disquieting alarm in the contemporary
human race.
1.
Abortion
Abortion is a murder and it is a divisive issue.[2]
This issue certainly makes the back crook, of many leaders and common men to
reply the sentiments asked by the victims and the pro- life camps concerning
abortion. It is a threat to life and the constitutional, elementary, critical,
and indispensable right to life. The logical sequence of pro-life movement
embarked on its journey since 1793 with the Roe
decision.[3]
Before these lay movements consumed the loin-share of all active movements its
roots laid its foundations in the Catholic Church by the dawn of year 1960.
In the words of St. John Paul II,
abortion is not only a danger that swallows the child and the mother with
disposition of guilt and tremendous horrendous feelings; it is the incalculable
danger to all humanity.[4] The
Pope says during his visit to Vancouver, in September 19, 1984;
Dear brothers and sisters: on this evening when we
celebrate life we are also mindful of
the many threats to life which exist in our technological society. Of
incalculable danger to all
humanity is the rate of abortion in society today. This unspeakable crime against human life which rejects and
kills a life at its beginning sets the stage for despising, negating and eliminating the life of adults, and
for attacking the life of society...in
the face of these evils which threaten life in our day, it must again proclaim in practice the sacredness of the
human life as a precious gift of a loving creator.
a gift to be accepted, respected and protected... “[T]he church stands for
life: in each human life she
sees the splendour of that ‘yes’, that ‘amen’ who is Christ himself” (Familiaris Consortio, 30).[5]
Abortion is the conscious,
deliberate, rationalised, self and the other reflected action as well as the
unconscious, natural or the spontaneous action that can occur accidently. If
the former is taken into thoughtfulness it would be termed as the direct
abortion which is voluntary with full consent. This is also a murder with
consent, a silent termination. If abortion is legalised then it would be easy
for the business that necessarily in need of the foetus in cosmetics and other
drug production and to improve the flavour of the food items and beverages for
instance;
Aborted Human Foetal Cells for
Stimulating Artificial Flavours Biotech companies have been using aborted human foetal cells for testing the
effectiveness of different flavouring
agent in their products. Last year the news came out that a biotech company in CA called Synomyx has been using aborted human
foetal cells in foods and beverages.
The HEK 293 is the code for
aborted human kidney cells that are used to
generate taste receptors that can stimulate a type of protein known as G
protein familiar to human’s
taste. Beside Synomyx, PepsiCo also continues to use aborted human foetal cells in their drinks.
Last year the shareholders of PepsiCo signed a petition
that required the company to adopt ethical ways to enhance the natural flavouring of their drinks and stop
using human aborted foetuses. However, the Obama
administration shut down the
proposal and gave their blessing to PepsiCo to continue
the use of aborted babies as flavour enhancer in their drinks which means business as usual. Based on the
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) the dead human tissues are
also found in flu vaccines beside other substances like aluminium, formaldehyde, monosodium glutamate (MSG), mercury and antibiotics.[6]
As
I mentioned in the earlier part of the text abortion can be also practiced by
way of compulsion from the side of husbands, boyfriends, parents and even the
counsellors who mimic abortifacients, are being highly paid and employed to
mitigate the responsibility of murder as corollary to the life savings. This
murder is polished and put in the wording of Pre-choice so that the rights of
women are upheld on that of child. If so this mitigation or the resemblance of act
can be justified or rationalised by way of living together such as cohabitation
as Fr. Lawrence Abello puts it “living together before marriage is to get to
know one another.”[7]
Knowing one another is relatively good and it facilitates a moral and ethical
subscription is overruled by encompassing healthy understandings about each
other. But I become sceptic at times. They mean to live together to have a
better comprehension of the both parties. Then why on earth they fail to
understand the human being that grows in the womb of a woman or partner.
Here
the ideas of prestige, name and fame, reputation and high apposite cachet
invariably creep into, and with much more coercion they unleash on the
activities and vicious thoughts of the terminators. This viciousness has the
capacity and potency in itself to turn the holy womb to an ugly tomb.
This evil process also crept into
the land of defence of life and punyakshetra
who promoted and varnished the ideals of bhuta-yanja
and tatwamasi in dormition in the pages
of Vedic texts and feasted in the canopies of religious discourses and
philosophical interrogations. India legalised the pro-choice or pro abortion
boll in the parliament in 1969 and legalised in the year 1971 and
consequetievely implemented in 1972[8], chiselling
the consciousness and brutality of abortion to the well furnished and aesthetic
literary term Medical termination of pregnancies (MTP)[9].
Thus the home land India famed for the rishis
and highly sophisticated Indian ideals on morale become the 26th
country in the sequel of nations that publically promoted abortion or in my
words planned silent Killing. This bill
is passed by the statement declaring, “It is another step forward on the road
to social reformation.”[10]
It is quite ironic and contrary to the existence of human being in the words of
Hegel where his proposal that human beings carry contradictions in themselves.
Here the contradiction is the acquiescence of human existence is due to love
and concern along with support from the society and from within oneself at
large. In abortion we become our own threat the antivirus that kills ourselves.
The malformed human nature is crashing the entire system if we put i the
computer terms. Before going an extra miles that is not welcomed let us see
what are the causes and arguments that stand for and against the act of
abortion.
What all affects the patient to
victimise abortion? And what are the side effects both physiologically and
psychologically? What are the sensical remedies at least in theory to console
the pro-life campers? These may be dealt in the forth coming pages.
1.1.
Pro-Choice Argument
In every social context
of reformation and renaissance from its historical or traditional patterns of
behaviour and deeds there can be always two-fold opinions and talks. Obviously
there will be philosophies raising points against and in favour of the debating
topic. That is natural comprehensible. But in the case of life in its nascent
stage will demand and require another stance form the public since we deal with
the human life no with vegetative and animal rights and life.
1.1.1.
Vulnerability of human Foetus
Human foetus is so
vulnerable and weak in its preparatory stages and then till it gets into a
full-fledged rational being even after without any guarantee of healthy mind
and surroundings that can preserve the life of human being from dangers that
are hidden and self-induced. We must know when does the human person begin to
be? The question itself is a negation to the foetus since foetus is expressed
adjectively with preposition it. The pro-choice argue that the person is the
individual with full rational capacities and self reflective nature. The foetus
is null and zero in this philosophical comprehension therefore a foetus can’t
be considered as a person it is weak and vulnerable in its possession of
faculty of thought. It sounds anti religious and consider all other anti-human
measures as positive elements to clean human from the face of the earth. So the
termination can be practiced.
1.1.2.
A Subhuman Argument
The pre born child is
not considered as a human being. As Abello mentions;
“it
is not surprising that many in our society assert, without a shred of evidence,
that the preborn child is not a human being. Throughout the history whenever
the exploiters wanted to victimize a group of people, the tendency always has
been to rationalize that the victimized are subhuman.”[11]
This subhuman trait is
the loophole and easy way to terminate the preborn child. I would say this is
cowardice and spinelessness. This spinelessness is revealed in the acts of
heterosexuality, premarital and post-marital affairs, rape and incest as well The
cowardice of a few becomes the knell of the innocent, a potentially brave being
by way of dilation and curettage or dilation and extraction a euphemistic
explanation.[12]
1.1.3.
‘Erroneous-nigh’ of Murder
The shallow answer to
the probe we made in the question in the prior pages was when does the life
begin? The corollary and parallel interrogation can be raised here however that
when does the human life end? Are we taxing to a butchers shop or to the life
saving hospice? In the hospitals and village quack campuses resembles the sting
of bloodshed and rotten flesh of innocents murdered by the slaughter to cover
the face of a cannibal. The concept that
human foetus is not a person but the collection of a bundle of cells. Therefore
extinction is viable at any time and predominantly at the lunar month period of
This deviated knowledge that human being is a bundle of cells are true but it
remains so at the last breath of each human being saying, human beings are
budle of cells.if so they can be permitted for annihilation why cant we kill
them? What ia wrong in murder? What is wrong in suicide? It is only a bundle of
cells after all! These shallow answers can devastate the human generation to
the era of cannibals and carnage culture.
1.1.4.
Rape and incest
In the case of rape or
incest, forcing a woman made pregnant by this violent act would cause further
psychological harm to the victim. Often a woman is too afraid to speak up or is
unaware she is pregnant, thus the morning after pill is ineffective in these
situations.[13]
1.1.5. Abortion
is a safe medical procedure.
The vast majority of
women - 88% - who have an abortion do so in their first trimester. Medical
abortions have less than 0.5% risk of serious complications and do not affect a
woman's health or future ability to become pregnant or give birth.[14]
1.1.6.
Stress on civil or public right
Every human being has a
civil right over his or her own body, that which is concretely assured and
preserved by the local authority, the government. Therefore it’s a humble and
complete autonomous right f each individual to carry out the desires of each
individual over his body.
1.1.7.
Economic inefficiency
The economic
inefficiency due to impoverished life style and the result in absence of natural family planning can
also traumatise the women to undergo the social dictum “extricate the parasite/s.”
And it can be considered as normal act as if so I apply scissors on the hair
since it grows beyond my wish and desire at any cost. This personal desire can
endanger the potential person by scissoring the human society.
1.1.8.
Peer by-chance experiments a ‘gradum summum’
The teenage fantasies
and experiments with boyfriends and cyber friends can cause unwanted
pregnancies. If it is to clear up the face and name and scholastic excellence
in front, can avoid extra burden and unknown cause inside the womb for a better
career happened by chance.
1.2.
Pro-Life Arguments
Life demands and
deserves right, dignity, love and pathos in all sense. Pro life camp
persistently stands for a life that must be flourished and celebrated in the
earth with all possibilities and defensive measures. What so ever be the case
or circumstances life remains exuberant and worth that any human name and fame
can conquer or confiscate.
1.2.1.
Perverse Intervention of the obstinate civil government.
The one child policy of
the China government can also increase the rate of abortion. This is the direct
abortion that can elude the civilians from the legal chastisement and fine. Therefore in order to have a peaceful stay in
the civil territory a peace less buy they do by exercising abortion. It is a
perverse intention of the China government in order to limit the number of
children to demand population control. But the intervention is a wide door to
many other horrendous evil activities just like domino effect. However these
models of civil interventions should be avoided or overruled by the alternative
life-friendly or pro-life measures. A civil parliament or the legislation is
not the place where the human beings take his first breath. Rather in the womb
of the mother. Therefore the right to life us from the conscience of mother and
child not from air conditioned halls.
1.2.2.
A Pre-mature hushed murder
Abortion is a
pre-mature killing. It is anti-religious, since life of a human being commence
at the time of conception. It is not merely a bunch of cells rather the DNA
that gives you the “YOU” without any repeated or alike existence. Since the
uniqueness of human being is furnished in DNA it is a killing, a planed
termination. The right to life as the fundamental right is dishonoured and despoiled
in the case of an aborted human being.
1.2.3.
Abortion is an act from irrational and lax consciousness.
A healthy rationality
assisted by the voice of consciousness never can permit abortion at any cost.
This is irrational. The reason I would say that how can your reason that finds
a place of dignity and categorically imperative existence can make reason the
primary faculty descend into animal or sensate nature. Reason is to facilitate
a reasonable life permeating joy, peace and serenity building up a beautiful
world where normativism prevails. If not we move not according to categorically
rather hypothetically where pleasure and comforts take more dominion that on
reason. Our reason is not the reason to reason how to reason out social evils,
rather to reason how to not to reason to find reason to kill. The lax
consciousness would permit the silence certification for the bad to be bad and
good also to be bad with connive approach and indifference.
1.2.4.
Adoption and munificent NGO
The functions of
adoption centres and Non Governmental Organisations such as Mother Theresa’s
institutions facilitate the opportunity for the adoption of the child for the
parents who long for children. If so provided by the society on what ground
should a woman abort her child. Why can her wait for a day to be peaceful and
not driven by guilt and traumatic existence. It is definite that a reckless act
cannot be justified by wickedness. It is by doing mistake one comes to know
what a mistake is and that it is the mistake that one exercised knowingly or
unknowingly avail him, by not mistaking in his life, to not mistake repeatedly
again. Therefore a mistake should not be a channel for the other like a chain
effect.
1.2.5.
Adoption accelerates ectopic pregnancies and psychological drawbacks.
It is clearly proofed
from the real life experience that one can be haunted by tremendous
psychological setbacks after permitting abortion in her womb. It scissors the
mother and i would argue it destroys the centrality of life since umbilical
cord has its origin front he Greek word umphalos
which means center, and from which the Delphi the center of the world comes.
Therefore is human beings are scissored the center of the living creatures are
at stake. It also accelerates the ectopic pregnancies.[15]
Many
Americans who pay taxes are opposed to abortion; therefore it's morally wrong
to use tax dollars to fund abortion. Those who choose abortions are often
minors or young women with insufficient life experience to understand fully
what they are doing. Many have lifelong regrets afterwards. Abortion frequently
causes intense psychological pain and stress.[16]
Conclusion
Abortion is not the final destiny or solution to the
problem created by the solutioners themselves. It is the extreme act that a
mild, innocent hman being can resist and think of. As adults we consciously
reproof and retaliate the attacker or the one who is risk to our lives. For it
is so precious to us and there are many more dreams and heights to be achieved,
of so foetus is also a potential human beings where it waits for its turn. No
more one must make her womb a slaughters house and act as a vampire who drinks
the blood of the innocents. Let us use Contraception even though I am sceptic to
say it’s positive side not causing conception and then a leading to abortion 5.
Let us be reminded that Abortion is not
a solution for the ills of the society 7.Induced abortion is considered ad the
tried and true method in the primitive villages of Indian society. 6 but no
would be my answer. It’s human and lame way of manipulating our conscious to be
not guilty. Let us listen to a black mother from USA; “Even without children my
life will be still bad… they are not going to give us what they have, the birth
control people.”5Trauma in aborting a child continues after the act in the mind
of a woman 3 now in this era it is solidly deteriorated as Lunch hour abortions
&Back door abortions 2. Let us not kill other. Let me remind what mother
Theresa said; “let us make others to smile before we leave from this world.” I
would add to it before they leave from this world of multifaceted sentiments,
desires and expectations. Be proud to be a Pro- Life activist. Abortion should
not or at an y circumstances administered for it intrudes human hands in to the
divine plan. We all must believe that it is not a Panacea.
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[1] Roe v. Wade,
410 U.S. 113, is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the
issue of abortion. It was decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v.
Bolton.
[3] Bob Senator, “Rise and Fall of the Right to Life
Movement in Congress: Response to the Life Roe Decision, 1973- 83”, 5.
[6]
http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/aborted-fetus-cells-artificial-flavors.php
[9] MTP is Medical
Termination of Pregnancy. It also called induced abortion. It is the medical
way of getting rid of unwanted pregnancy. Any qualified gynecologist (MD/DGO)
can perform MTP. Any MBBS Doctor, who has obtained training in MTP, is allowed
to perform this procedure.
http://www.aarogya.com/specialties/obstetrics-a-gynecology/medical-termination-of-pregnancy-mtp.html
[10] Thiru 1 1 (Abortion: preventive and remedial support
services with reference to india by Catherine Bernard, Tamil bnadu family
welfare centre, Tiruchirappilly, 1976.
[15] Ectopic
pregnancy, also known as eccyesis or tubal pregnancy, is a complication of
pregnancy in which the embryo attaches outside the uterus.
