Pros And Cons Of Abortion

Abortion is to erase baby in mother’s body, which causes a big controversy around the world these days. Chang (2015.05.11.) reported a girl was sexually assaulted by her stepfather in Paraguay. Upon news of her pregnancy, not only international human rights organizations but also pro-choice people in their nation insisted her abortion. However, the Government of Paraguay disapproves her abortion because to remove fetus is only allowed when mother’s health is in danger obviously and is rather fatal to her as she is in the fifth month of pregnancy. According to Son (2015.05.08.), following Paraguay, incest occurred in Uruguay and the victim was known as 16th week of gestation. In Uruguay, erasing baby from womb is permitted within 14th week of

First of all, by preventing illegal operations, it is helpful to protect the pregnant women in terms of economy and health. Han (2010.03.14.) reported the surgery costs were 30-40 hundred thousand won averagely, but it raised more than doubled and some hospitals demanded even millions of won. In addition, certain maternity center that had no license in medical procedure did wrongful termination. However, the problem does not end here. According to Kim (2012.11.16.), abortion trip to China increased rapidly. Many hospitals in China hired brokers for Koreans and lured them for following reasons: short distance from Korea, low surgery fee, generous social perception about feticide (no penalty clause), and experienced doctors due to many surgeries caused by the birth control policy. However, the Korean medical community (as cited in Kim, 2012.11.16.) expressed concern about the backward medical facilities and unsanitary surgical environments of China compared to those of Korea, which could be very harmful to parturient women. Kim (2012.11.16.) reported illegal abortive drugs also became widespread on the grounds that they were safer and cheaper than operations, which were not true and could be a serious danger to mothers’ health as well. Sim who was an ob-gyn (as cited in Park, 2013.12.07.) warned if women in childbed took abortifacients without medical supervision, they could suffer from side effects like incomplete

According to Kim (2010.02.12.), prevention of termination never means the decrease or eradication of it. The stronger we crack down the feticide, the more women do illegal and dangerous abortion because they have no choice but to do it in poor socioeconomic environment. The tragedy due to this restriction was already proved through the example of Romania. Nicolae Ceausescu, the first president of Romania, restricted abortion strongly, but women of the country went to abroad to do it, and as a result, the population of the country decreased all the more. In this regard, Kim (2009.11.20.) recommended the Romanian film ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days’ which won the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. We must not force women to give birth anymore because unwanted pregnancy takes away too much things from them and they are also honorable main agents who have the right to choice and the right to be happy. In conclusion, we have to put termination under women’s charge, not under country’s interference. In other words, I am pro-choice and strongly urge the Korean government to legalize erasing babies from their