Essay: Why women should not have an abortion

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1. Abortion is similar to murder as it is the act of taking human life.
2. No cultured society will permit any human to harm or take the life of another human without punishment and abortion is not different.
3. Adoption is a practical alternative to abortion and bring about the same result.
4. An abortion can result in medical complications later in life; the risk of entopic pregnancies doubles and the chance of a miscarriage and pelvic inflammatory disease also increases.
5. In the instance of rape or incest, proper medical care can ensure that a woman will not get pregnant. Abortion punishes the unborn child who committed no crime
6. Abortion should not be used as another form of contraception.
7. For women who demand complete control of their body, control should include preventing the risk of unwanted pregnancy through the responsible use of contraception or, if that is not possible, through abstinence.
8. Those who choose abortions are often small or young women with inadequate life experience to understand fully what they are doing. Many have lifelong worries and fears afterwards.
9. Abortion often causes deep emotional and mental pain and stress.

Kant believed that the shared ability of humans to reason should be the basis of morality, and that it is the ability to reason that makes humans morally significant. He therefore believed that all humans should have the right to common dignity and respect.

Kant’s main argument against abortion is that people are hand over with their lives, which have a exceptionally inborn value. By killing oneself, a person gives out with his humanity and makes himself into a thing to be treated like a beast. Kant also argues on more consequentiality grounds that if a person is capable of suicide, then he is capable of any crime. For Kant, “he who does not respect his life even in principle cannot be restrained from the most dreadful vices.” (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Why is the Bible a Meta ethic sources in Namibia?

What is Meta ethic?

Meta ethics investigates where our ethical principles come from and what they mean. Are they only social inventions, Do they involve more than expressions of our individual emotions and Meta ethical answers to the questions which focus on the issues like universal truths, the will of God, the role of reason in ethical decision, and the meaning of ethical terms themselves.

The issue also rests on Meta ethical issues such as, where do rights come from and what kinds of beings have rights?

The term ‘meta’ means after or beyond, and, consequently, the idea of Meta ethics involves a removed, or bird’s eye view of the entire project of ethics.

Meta ethics can be defined as the study of the origin and meaning of ethical concepts. When compared to normative ethics and applied ethics, the field of Meta ethics is the least accurately defined area of moral philosophy. It covers issues from moral semantics to moral epistemology. Two issues are prominent: (1) metaphysical issues concerning whether morality exists independently of humans, and (2) psychological issues concerning the underlying mental basis of our moral judgments and conduct (Fieser, 2008).

Why is the Bible a Meta ethic in Namibia

• The Bible act as the witness to the central events of the faith, not to every element within the faith and to every problem with which the believer may be worried or concerned.
• The bible can raise our minds to the source of all meaning, value and authority in the God who has communicated to us in the Bible because if there is no God, everything is permitted and if there is no last Judgement, there is no final permit against the abuse of human power.
• In the Bible we are told that we have a basic, natural, essential and understanding of right and wrong which is a result of Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge. God has Himself explained to us what types of behavior are right and wrong in the Law, and Jesus shows us that it is not just about behavior but what is in our hearts.(Thompson 2010)
• The Meta ethics is that God tells us what is right and wrong, and about normative ethics, the Law tells us how to behave because there are specific commands in the Bible that state clearly what is right and what is wrong as defined by God.
• There are also some teachings in the Bible that can make the principles known and that can be applied to situations not clearly written about in the Bible and this should help us in most situations we face in life.
• God is seen as the source of our morality (Father), the example of a moral life (Son), and the one who transforms us (Spirit) so we live by that morality day by day.
• The bible also tells us about our own understanding of right and wrong comes from God (Ex 20:1) , how to live in a right way with God (Ex 20:2-11) and also How to live in a right way with each other (Ex 20:12-17)
• The Bible is not only a book preserve stories of God’s revelations, it also motivates and encourages those who believes to engage in discoveries about laws of nature identical with God’s laws, especially Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.
• Bible tells us why we are here in the universe and what it means to be human.
• The Bible can stimulate faith and bring life because the Bible has life’giving and transforming power, and then there is good reason for getting the Bible out there, in ways that make sense to people and help them engage with it.
• The Bible can also be a source of inspiration and comfort, because for both believers and non’believers, they are likely to pick up a Bible is in times of difficulty and stress and also when life is hard, the Bible comes into its own.
• The Bible is our major witness to Jesus, his life and significance. Being a Christian is about love for and commitment to Jesus the Christ. The Bible not only provides biographical information about Christianity’s founder but more importantly struggle with Jesus’ significance for life, the world and faith.
• The Bible helps us in forming our understanding of discipleship and mission. This happens on both the corporate and individual levels of Christianity. A major task facing the Church today is to determine what mission, evangelism and discipleship entail in the twenty-first century.
• The Bible can help in Christian thinking on moral and ethical issues. Part of the rapid rate of change in our world means that many difficult and complex ethical dilemmas now face us. ( Kuniholm & Nienhuis,n.d).
  Conclusion

Killing an unborn child is essentially wrong, and therefore can never be acceptable even in bad feeling of any situation. It is no more just to kill an unborn child in order to avoid hardship than it would be to kill a toddler to avoid hardship. Because the unborn child is unseen, it is easier for society to ignore killing him or her, though this is morally impossible to differentiate from killing any child at any stage of development. In addition, abortion does not solve the deeper problems that have contributed to having pregnancy at the wrong time, problems such as low self-esteem, sexual exploitation, unchaste sexual behavior and poverty, lack of education and absence of moral guidance. In fact, the negative effects of abortion can actually compound these problems.

Finally, a society which allows the killing of its most vulnerable members, in the very place in the entire world which should be for them to be safest and most take care of their own mothers’ wombs is unable of take pleasure in and encouragement human life or valuing childhood and motherhood.

God has given us life, and life is blessed and good. God has also given us the responsibility to make decisions which are a sign of a respect for life in situation when conflicting realities are present. Jesus declared women as full partners in the faith, capable of making decisions that affect their lives.

Let’s all for humanity’s sake, here and now, stop the killing.