7 Reason For Abortion

For some women, the idea of abortion is something they simply cannot even countenance. For others, it’s as easy as deciding what to wear, and for still others, they may be faced with a decision they wished never to have to contemplate. Without making any judgement or argument and without passing personal opinion, here are 7 reasons for abortion.

1. The Result of a Crime

When a pregnancy is the result of a crime such as rape, incest or child abuse, if a woman doesn’t want a permanent reminder of her ordeal, abortion may be the answer. There is the option to have the baby and have it adopted. However, this means the woman has to live through 9 months of the consequences of something that was a harrowing experience.

2. The Mother’s Mental Health

Diseases After Abortions

Nine Reasons Why Abortions are Legal 

A Statement From the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Abortion is never an easy decision, but women have been making that choice for thousands of years, for many good reasons. Whenever a society has sought to outlaw abortions, it has only driven them into back alleys, where they became dangerous, expensive and humiliating. Amazingly, this was the case in the United States until 1973, when abortion was legalized nationwide. 

Thousands of American women died and thousands more were maimed before abortion was legal. For this reason and others, women and men fought for and achieved women's legal right to make their own decisions about abortion. 

However, there are people in our society who still won't accept this. Some argue that even victims of rape or incest should be forced to bear the child. And now, having failed to convince the public or the lawmakers, certain of these people have become violent extremists, engaging in a campaign of intimidation and terror aimed at women seeking abortions and health professionals who work at family-planning clinics. 

Some say these acts will stop abortions, but that is ridiculous. When the smoke clears, the same urgent reasons will exist for safe, legal abortions as have always existed. No nation committed to individual liberty could seriously consider returning to the days of back-alley abortions--to the revolting specter of a government forcing women to bear children against their will. Still, amid such attacks, it is worthwhile to repeat a few of the reasons why our society trusts each woman to make the abortion decision herself. 


1. Laws against abortion kill women.
To prohibit abortions does not stop them. When women feel it is absolutely necessary, they will choose to have abortions--even in secret, without medical care, in dangerous circumstances. In the two decades before abortion was legal in the U.S., it's been estimated that nearly 1 million women per year sought out illegal abortions. Thousands died. Tens of thousands were mutilated. All were forced to behave as if they were criminals. 

2. Legal abortions protect women's health.
Legal abortion not only protects women's lives, it also

Abortion in the Muslim world

Sumayya (real name changed) was a 22-year-old lawyer who became pregnant with her long-term fiancé three months before her wedding. Bringing the marriage date forward was not an option and having a child six months into the marriage was unthinkable. Left with few alternatives, she opted for abortion. Since she lived in Pakistan, it was not a simple choice. However, she was able to get one with relative ease and under thoroughly legitimate circumstances. What helped her was the fact that the laws of Pakistan did not consider a fetus in the first trimester a human.

Given that 67% of the women in the world who opt for abortion are able to get it with the laws protecting them, the above should not be surprising. However, abortion is such an explosive topic and Muslim laws are so strict, it is surprising to note that abortion in the Muslim world is not a black and white topic. Part of the reason is the built-in ambiguity about the treatment of a fetus in the Shari'a (Islamic) laws.

Abortion: The termination of life or cells?

 Much like most laws, the Shari’a laws distinguish between a fetus and human being.

Consider an embryo: is it a collection of cells or a person? This is the bottom line of the debate. If you ask this question of ten people, you will get ten different views. Politicians are the same and differ in their views and approaches about when life begins. This is the question that determines the legitimacy of abortion.

Does life begun at conception of the egg, fertilization of the ovum, at implantation in the uterine wall, at gestation,