Viddler

I really enjoyed this debate and it has made me rethink why choice now matters more than ever as it is about us deciding on our future not governments not even doctors

Abortion as a personal choice is very important. Too often this issue is viewed as a policy debate for the state to decide to be pro or anti for some other reason.

a well constructed aguement

If I were accidentaly pregnant, I would like to have the right to decide if it's time for me to have a baby or not. It would be up to me and nobody else.

I'm glad to witness a debate around abortion that doesn't center around when a fetus becomes a human being and the ethical aspect. Both the facts and the moral side of abortion as a sociological issue is discussed quite rightly in my opinion.

A mans perspective? It's wrong.

I belive that the debate around the embrione ( if we can say its life or not) IS A debate that has a different starting point from the debate over abortion.
if we talk about laws, they are there only to regulate facts (not to judge them ) and they should be seen as totally separated from moral debates.
If laws reject abortion, this will not put a end on abortion, instead this could open doors to private,illegal and very expensive clinics offering abortions possibilities to reach people and on the other hand very dangerous "magic" practices to do abortion for poor people.
basically rejecting abortion would not mean people to stop doing it. instead It could take the society to undertake the problem unequally.

Nowadays abortion is one of the hottest themes in our society.

Every second, some where in the world, a women is undertaking an abortion.

But the real question is should or should not an unborn child be considered a life with rights?

In the “Battle of ideas festival” this hard topic has being analysed by two specialists that have shown different opinions on the subject.

According Professor John Wyatt it is unacceptable to reduce the value of an unborn child to a personal construct idea where an individual has the power to decide whether the value of human being is valuable or disposable.

Life, says the professor, starts inside the womb of a mother and it cannot be predetermined by the dominant power structure of our society which at the present, is male.

A completely different view comes from Ann Furedi, a pro abortion activist , who states the importance of having the right of planning families using abortion as a backup of contraceptives that often fail.

“Embryo” is considered a living thing and the core of the question is moved on “when the life begin to matter”.

But how can an “embryo of a human being” be driven down to a mere thing?

Should we consider people immobilised on hospital beds “living things” just because as an “human embryo” they cannot speak out and defend themselves ?

Does their lives matter? When does life start and end to matter than?

I think the whole concept of what it is to be a human being should be reviewed and that the abortion topic should be analysed in the light of these considerations.