Types, Causes, Reasons, and Ethical Dilemma of Abortion

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Ethical Dilemma Abortion
The question where abortion should be legalized or not has been controversial among people and countries. Before answering the question, people need to understand the reason and the motive behind abortion to be determined as legal or illegal. Nevertheless, this paper will discuss permitting abortion in any given country because of its role in women's and unborn children's lives. (Pollitt, 4). Abortion is one of the most controversial topics for decades. The debate for or against abortion has been a topic in religious and political forums where a leader's stand on the matter will either make or break it. By definition, abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before full term by a doctor. Women always have a reason to end a pregnancy. These reasons are usually valid to the person procuring the procedure. It is the woman's right to decide what she wants to do with her body, including procuring an abortion.
Background
Firstly, different types of abortions constitute safe and unsafe abortions. The two types of abortions are critical in determining the legality of abortion. Performing safe abortions should be according to the WHO's international guidelines, and these types include therapeutic abortion, inevitable abortion, medical abortion, and surgical abortion (Cisne 453). Conversely, unsafe abortions have a habitual abortion and criminal abortion. Surprisingly, most of the performed abortions are usually are unsafe abortions making abortion illegal in most countries. The effects of unsafe abortions are usually fatal; therefore, most legislative organs tend to vie it illegal for them to save lives (McLachlan 177). However, if conducted properly and professionally, abortion and its effects are usually positive, thus showing the need for it to be unprohibited.
Benefits
A little explanation of the types of abortions highlights their effects; hence, it will show why abortion should be legal. Firstly, therapeutic abortion involves the lawful termination of the fetus after medical complications have been identified and proven to be fatal to both lives of the fetus and that of the mother by professional medical personnel. In this instance, the procedure ensures saving the mother's life if staying pregnant would have led to more mother risks. Secondly, surgical or medical abortion, which is often the scariest method of abortion, involves the fetus's decapitation using sharp blades by professional physicians (Pollitt 4). Surgical abortion is always discouraged by perpetrators of human rights as they consider it inhumane to the unborn fetus. However, its impacts are usually optimistic when done professionally with the best-stipulated procedure. Using the correct medical procedure ensures that women are not harmed and can still get pregnant in the future. Thirdly, inevitable abortion is what is even supposed to make abortion legal from time immemorial. This is because this type of abortion has to be conducted, or both lives are lost. As a law of life, not everything follows the normal scheme of life (McLachlan 177). Therefore, there are times fetal development undergoes complications leading to anomalies that make it even possible to survive in the...