Abortion in Canada Should Remain Legal

Abortion is not a crime in Canada hardly it is an argona of the law (Duhaime, 2010) that isnt black and white. It has been completely ratified since 1988 and our government should keep it that way. For as much as some people are anti- stillbirth or pro- action they need to netherstand that women support miscarriages for a figure of reasons one and only(a) being that an abortion can actu all in ally benefit the unborn child. Those who are anti- option also claim that abortion is wrong because it violates the rights of the fetus, but what ab divulge the rights of the cleaning lady?It is a womans right to decide what she does with her body and though it is much debated a fetus by logical argument is not a person and does not hold any rights. Finally, even if abortion was do vile as it was many decades ago, desperate measure to abort unwanted children would be plown by many expecting women, with dire consequences. It is from these four statements that one can separate that abort ion should continue to be legal in Canada. It is not unceasingly in the vanquish interest of the child to be born (Jacob, 2006).A great physical exertion comes from the book Abortion under Attack. It features a story from a girl whose father never wanted her. She suffered emotional abuse of hearing on a regular basis that she was unwanted and unwelcomed. (Jacob, 2006) A lot of children are sadly born into this type of unloving environment when a arrest is too poor to afford an abortion and doesnt seduce the support to take care of the child or when they are born into a strained relationship. When a child is born to parents who dont want them, would it not consider been in their best interest to incur been aborted?Rather than be subject to emotional or physical abuse or loveless lives in base homes, they could have never had to experience any of the pain they never would have cognize. The fetus is not a conscious being, so when it is aborted it feels no pain it is as if it never existed. In other cases, a child who born to a woman who heavily used drugs throughout her pregnancy wont have a fair chance at life. Why put an infant or child through that type of stress and withdrawal.A potential baffle who is a heavy drug user should abort any cosset that would have been consummated during the times she was using because that will cause unnecessary pervert to the unborn child therefore it is not in the best interest of the child to be born. Another instance would be when a couple wants to have a baby but a healthy relationship isnt in place. By healthy relationship were talking about one that isnt full of anger and violence. If you bring a child into an unhealthy environment, full of negatively charged energy it has a great impact on their development.An example of how negativity can affect the development process is seen in Dr. Emotos book Messages in Water. In his book he does an experimental study of whether negative words like you fool have a diffe rent effect on water formations than positive words such as love or appreciation (Emoto, 2008). He found that negative phrases and words create large clusters or will not form clusters, and positive, beautiful words and phrases create small, secretive clusters. In basic terms negative words and positive words have different effects on the structure of ones make up.So saving a child into a negative environment isnt fair to them in two ways, the first being that they werent asked to be brought into the situation and the bite being that they are going to be emotionally abused or traumatized from the constant violence. From this one could conclude that it would have been in the childs best interest if they were never born and brought into the situation. Only persons have a right to life, homosexual organisms are not persons before birth therefore human organisms do not have a right to life before birth. (Jagger, 2009) A fetus is completely dependent on a mother to survive, if remove d from the uterus it would die. A human can independently survive when put on its own. So one can conclude that because a fetus is not executable without being attached to some social occasion else, it is human-like but not human if anything it more closely resembles a parasite clinging to a host for life. At birth the fetus becomes human because it can now independently breathe, move, eat etc.Now a pro-life believer could now say, Would a person who is living off a kidney dialysis machine, and cannot live independently not be a person? To answer that is the key to wherefore a fetus is not a person. As currently as one can live independently they can be considered to be a person, if after that they become dependent they still remain persons because they have already functioned independently and crossed the line from human organism to human. Almost all of abortions are done in the first two trimesters of pregnancy, and during this time a fetus is not independently viable. The amou nt of abortions done in the third trimester, or after quickening is such a low percentage it does not make sense to make a law against it because it is so unheard of.The general understanding with an abortion is that you shouldnt do it after youve felt the baby move, or once it is viable. This is a understanding that lies in the morals of humans, there is no need for a law against it because people will 9 out of 10 times make the morally correct decision. In the odd case where a third trimester abortion does occur, it is only done after evaluating all possible options and weighing all the consequences, we need to keep abortion legal so people can make the choice for themselves.Women have been fighting for their rights for decades, and victorious ownership of their bodies was part of that. In 1988 Dr. Henry Montagentaler opened up several illegal (at the time) abortion clinics and challenged section 287 of the criminal code which condemned abortion. The Supreme Court control that s ection 287 offended the charter and was no longer in effect. His fight made abortion legal for all Canadian women. (Arthur, 1999) He gave women a choice, the choice to continue the pregnancy and keep the child, continue the pregnancy and give the child away or legally abort the pregnancy.The court case of Daigle v. Tremblay displays this choice in action. In Quebec 1989 Chantal Daigle became pregnant and wanted to abort the baby as she did not feel ready or capable of being a parent but her boyfriend Mr. Tremblay tried to get a court ordered injunction to prevent her from doing just that. His plea was dismissed in the Supreme Court and it became known to all that the father has no legal rights in a mothers abortion decision, and a fetus is not a person under Quebec law it holds no rights.From this case we can see that a womans rights override the rights of a fetus, if it is considered to have any. Women cant be condemned for abortion because they arent doing anything wrong other tha n fighting for their rights as theyve done for so many years. People should not judge the choices others make, (Piehl, 2007) as many people say that women who have abortions do so for selfish reasons (Piehl, 2007) but usually theyre wrong as Its out of love. Many who endure the pain of abortion do so to provide the quality of arenting they want for their children that they already have, to ensure financial security or to complete education. (Piehl, 2007) When viewed from this perspective we can see that when a woman gets an abortion she is doing so because she wants the best for her child.Why bring a child into a world where you cannot properly provide for them? From this we can see why abortion can be a good thing and why it should remain legal. Between 1926 and 1947, 4000 to 6000 Canadian women died as a result of bungled illegal abortions. (Arthur, 1999) This was due to the lack of resources used by the people conducting the procedure. This in its self, shows us that women are go ing to dominate their bodies whether it is legal or not, so the best thing to do would be to keep it legal so a safer and cleaner procedure can be offered. Childbirth itself is also unusually painfulit is crazy to womens health and indeed their lives. (Tooley, 2009) To make a women go through the exquisite pain of childbirth when she may not be ready to mother a child is quite cruel.There are many different procedures for abortion, but all have to be done with care or the life of the mother is put at risk. We need to keep abortions legal so that doctors can be adequately trained in the different procedures and fewer Canadian women will die as a result. A wise man once said The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation in reference to abortion. (Arthur, 1999) Though abortion was illegal up until quite recently we should keep it that way.To take away someones choice about their bodies is an incursion on human rights, and the fetus has no rights as it is not a person. We a lso have to understand that with such a big issue, even if it was made illegal people would continue to do it, so we may as well have them doing it in a safe manner. Abortion is quite a controversial issue in Canada, and all over the world but it should remain legal in Canada because we all need to have a choice, whether it is believed to be moral or immoral is irrelevant we, as human beings need to have the option to make a choice and live with the decision.