The abortion monologue as definition has always been defined through partisan sugar-coated descriptions. Medical practitioners should not allow sectarian groups including religious, certain human rights bodies and politicians to deceivingly re-define abortion. In fact, even under medical emergencies some pro-life proponents still equate abortion to murder.
Due to our societal limitations we have reified, rather than verified, the whole abortion debate on partisan prisms.
Abortion is never a superfluous issue like the weather neither should it be viewed as a means of dehumanizing modern human beings.
Camouflaging constitutional, political and spiritual challenges with medical and women¢s rights is self-defeating. We need not sanctify political legislation and the constitution by basing our societal justifications while misplacing women¢s immediate human rights. As human beings we do not discover moral stands, we only create them by the stands we take. Thus we should not be seen to infringe upon women rights for the worth of our existence emerges out of what we choose to stand for, first as individuals.
Women should be given a chance to respond to life challenges by being responsive and responsible.
Our one-upmanship stand against society to deny women their biological and medical rights is a selective omission mostly perpetuated by our enculturated society.
For the politicians, human reason is never ¡godlike¢ but a rational ideological bank to make our lives be accommodative and worth living. Whether one is a pro-life gynaecologist or otherwise there are no absolutes except those that we help create but without partisan interests and discriminating against other groups.
Personally, I support FIDA and the Coalition on Violence Against Women for pushing for the proposed draft of the Reproductive Health and Rights Bill of 2008.
As we tackle the challenges of Safe Motherhood (Part II of the Bill), we need to acknowledge that abortion seems to be some ¡obsolete taboo¢ because it now appears unstructured and undefined to suit interests of all groups. For women, abortion could be a medical and human right holism that is essential to women¢s health.
Society ought to be beyond good and evil by not being frustrated but be fascinated by what seems inevitable.
Faith, politics and varied and varied discrimination alone would never solve all human challenges for selective alienation is the syndrome of our discriminative societal belief systems at the expense of individual rights.
It seems that the abortion¢s ¡rescue-victim-persecutor¢ triangle is what ¡intoxicates¢ our mirror-hungry society. Isn¢t humanity a giant metabolic battery to be charged and discharged under ¡redefined¢ conditions?
Not that abortion should be condoned to its entirety but certain defined and evaluated circumstances such as rape, incest, sever deformity of the unborn, among others, ought to be critically analyzed.
Certainly, it is better to be informed than to be converted; politically, religiously or in any other way, to make life bearable for all.
Some analyst, Harris, symbolically stated that, ¡people are born frogs until they transform themselves into princes and princesses¢. Should we continue living in deceit as our women live in dehumanizing conditions?
Mundia Mundia Jnr.
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: ABORTION,WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONALISM..