Why Abortion is a Woman’s Right to Decide?
The woman must have the right to her birthing decisions because she is the one who gets pregnant and not otherwise.
As a woman, I support other women wholeheartedly. I will never stand with patriarchal culture and its disciples. The reason being they believe in holding us every breath. They rule us and consider us as a part of their favorite dominating circus. I say to hell with such a culture where women are considered illiterate, weak and mainly a puppet.
The woman must have the right to her birthing decisions because she is the one who gets pregnant and not otherwise. A freedom to live life and deciding on giving birth to another life should always be in her approval. If she doesn’t feel like bringing one more life in this world due to whatsoever reason, she still should be respected and given a choice of freedom to live fearlessly.
Let’s get to the basics of why I feel women need to decide on their own about abortion and what could be the ways that could save them from mental chaos and stress.
Women’s right to Life
Every woman irrespective of her caste, creed, or color has this right to live life on her terms. In India, we read lots of news where women are forced to go for the forced abortion. Sometimes, they are forced not to go for an abortion.
The decisions are usually made by the head of the family, and that’s none other than the older man in the house. The man who cannot give birth nor can get pregnant decides for the womanly body. How shameful and stupid it sounds at times but then that’s how life is here and in different parts of the world.
Women’s right to health
We live in a world where promises are made with a high tone of voice and when it comes to imply by the promises we run away. Our government comes with strict health laws and medical aid treatments but when it comes to safe abortion health services we are letting women due to poor and drastic abortion conditions.
Women don’t get enough healthy treatments for safe abortions and end up losing their lives. At times, they are asked to abort the baby at home which leads to their untimely death. The government failures don’t come into the picture and even though social workers and NGOs have started raising their voices nobody wants to own this blame.
Women’s right to Nondiscrimination
It’s a funny world we live in. Imagine someone else is deciding for your unwanted pregnancy, and all you could do is just sit in the house and cry crocodile tears. Moreover, people don’t think about if the woman is pregnant with such negative thoughts in her mind, what kind of kid is going to be raised inside her womb? Would he/she be a happy person after birth? I don’t think so.
Since the day woman conceives a child starts learning inside her. Be it our emotional thoughts, mental state of mind, or physical health issues, our kid gets from us what we are willing to give to them?
I hope more and more people come forward to stop unnecessary trauma to women and let them abort the child they don’t intend to keep without any discrimination.
Women’s right to Reproductive Self-determination
The government or anybody else shouldn’t decide on abortion at all. Women are not the puppet in this world. We can decide for ourselves in terms of having a child or not. Emotional and mental health is equally important else some women when they find themselves in the unending troubles cycle tend to commit suicide. It’s not their failure. I consider it as our failure in society.
How to plan the family or control the family size decisions should be given freehandedly to women than men. They are the ones who nurture, educate and run the world, not men. Also, they should be educated well enough by the doctors about the side effects of contraception to live a healthy life.
“As a woman, I owe the world nothing in terms of my fertility. I am a human being and, mother or not, as a person, it is my basic human right to control, plan, and choose the size of my family. I wish this right for all people” ― Various
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