If abortion is murder -
what should we do?
We should think about the real consequences of banning
abortion before discussing the issue writes philosopher and teacher Sofia
Jeppsson.
It's not just American conservative politicians who believe that abortion is
murder and should be outlawed; the view is also found in Sweden. But what are the consequences if we take this seriously?
First, a clarification: Personally I do not believe that
abortion is murder. It is not always murdered to kill a human organism - think
of a culture of human cancer cells. It is not murder to prevent a
potential human being from coming to - every time we engage in anything other
than unprotected vaginal intercourse to prevent the occurrence of potential
people. If you start discussing what human dignity (or animals)
value depends on, are generally used in the consciousness. Various bodily reactions to
stimuli are very early in the fetus, but the development of synapses in the
brain does not really accelerate until week 20.
Consciousness requires enough synapses, and is hardly possible before then,
writes Olof Lagercrantz in the child's brain.
If I, for the sake of argument, suppose that abortion is murder. How should we act to stop the huge mordvåg going on?
Banning abortion means that women may be forced to make
their uteruses to keep the life of another individual, although donations in
all other contexts are optional. Someone
might want to argue that forced pregnancy and childbirth is a just punishment
for those who had unprotected sex, but this argument does not hold. Should the state punish people for
unprotected sex, there must first be made illegal, and then the punishment must
be something that can be imposed in court for all genders. However, one can, of course, argue that it is more important
to prevent murder than to take account of people's bodily integrity.
Even if we agree to
this remains a problem: Abortion ban does not reduce the number of abortions
that much.
According to WHO conducted around 26 million legal and 20 million illegal
abortions in the world in 1995. If you want to really put a stop to these killings, so
must one abortion ban supplemented with other measures.
Simply encouraging people to abstain from sex do not seem
to be effective, the United States, where "abstinence only"
sexundervisning is common, has more teenage abortions per capita than Sweden,
writes Läkartidningen (No. 23, 2003).
Before the surgery, they donate sperm so that planned pregnancies are still
possible through insemination. This, of course, means an intervention in the boys' physical
integrity, but those who want to ban abortion has already agreed that it is
important to prevent murder. So up for forced sterilization! Combining abortion ban with free contraceptives would probably
do better.
However, there is one possible method that has never been tried, but that would
largely put an end to all abortions: We could have mandatory sterilization of
all the boys at a young age.
Or so we keep just the free abortion.
Sofia Jeppsson
Ph.D. in Philosophy and teachers
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Ph.D. in Philosophy and teachers
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