Abortion Should Not Be Allowed Except In Exceptional Cases

Abortion is the interruption of pregnancy. During a therapeutic abortion, the embryo can be removed or expelled from the uterus, according to the method chosen. There are two types of therapeutic abortion: medical abortion and surgical abortion. During a medical abortion, the pregnancy is interrupted with drugs instead of surgery. This type of abortion can be performed at the early stage of pregnancy - up to seven weeks after the first day of last period (Potts 1977, pp 145-160). Surgical abortion is the abortion method most common in Canada and United States and is performed by a doctor in a clinic or hospital. Also called manual vacuum intrauterine, surgical abortion is to dilate the cervix (opening) of the uterus to gently remove the embryo or fetus and placenta tissue. women have an abortion during early pregnancy are as likely as other women to have a healthy baby later. Except in rare cases, serious complications, safe and legal abortion does not affect fertility.

Abortion: A Global Phenomenon

Although, worldwide, a growing number of couples want fewer children, and though frequent sex are forged in circumstances where a child is perceived as undesirable, it often happens that no contraception is used . Difficult access to contraception, contraceptives of poor quality, fear of side effects: these are some of the many reasons that explain the phenomenon. All methods have also a certain failure rate. Causing in all societies a number of unwanted pregnancies, and some of the women concerned decide to interrupt. Their reasons - first because of health problems or social groups - are similar around the world. The Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York estimates the number of abortions worldwide at 42 million (in 2003 against 46 million in 1995), twenty million are performed illegally under hazardous conditions, in most countries development.

Where abortions are done in secret and by non-professionals, they endanger the lives and health of women. In 2004, WHO (World Health Organization) estimated that about 70,000 annual deaths due to abortions facts wrong. In some countries development, urban clinics, two out of three beds are occupied by women with complications of botched abortions.

For many people, "Abortion is both a denial of its own responsibility (to act as if the action had not occurred) and a crime (murder, pure and simple of a human being). ". It is also proposed that it creates severe trauma in the mother, a feeling of sadness and confusion among the relatives of a moral outrage to others (Tooley 1972).

In Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1973 recognized the abortion as a constitutional right, invalidating the laws prohibiting or restricting it. Abortion was also illegal in Canada until 1969, when the Parliament of Canada passed a law allowing abortion in certain circumstances to protect the "health" of the mother (the word "health" was not defined or limited). The Minister of Justice at the time, Pierre Trudeau, introduced a ...