El Aborto

The issue of abortion, although it has been discussed for decades, is not becoming any less burning question, for both its advocates and opponents go on repeating the same arguments again and again.And it is only natural – it is one of these issues the perception of which may never change, no matter how different the outside world becomes. For, although scientific progress may make some thingsdifferent, it never brings any alterations in ethical questions.

The proponents of abortion call themselves the “pro-choicers”, which sounds like a fantastically elaborate cynicism. What choice dothey mean? It isn’t the child’s choice to be conceived; it isn’t the child’s choice to be killed. They say that only woman has the right to decide whether to keep or kill her child; applying a verypeculiar shortsightedness, they pretend that the human being whose life we speak about has nothing to do with this decision. Yes, woman has choice in this matter, but it has long ago been done when thechild is conceived. The woman could have chosen differently when she had made the child’s conception possible, but she didn’t – then she has no more right to decide on this life.


Theaforementioned aspect touches upon only the ethical side of the question, but it is not the only one. From the medical point of view the abortion is no more wholesome thing for body, than it is for a soul. Theresults of abortion on a woman’s organism range from physical injuries, long-lasting medical consequences to infertility and death.

When people talk about abortion, they speak about the power of humanbeing over the nature and that the modern level of science’s development makes it possible to revert usual physical processes. It is, however, a rather vicious variety of doublespeak. It is notreverting, it is a violent intrusion. It is not power over nature, it is power over human beings that do already exist, but are incapable of defending themselves. If it is a felony to kill a newborn...