A Few Words Before You Make A Decision On Abortion
Women, who want to get an abortion done, must remember the following few points before they make their final decision. If they make a hasty decision, the physical and mental consequences of their decision will haunt them throughout their lives.
- Getting an abortion done and hiding it from your parents may not be a good idea. You may say that your parents will get wild and may go to any extent such as breaking the relationship with you for ever. But, you must understand that your parents have had their share of disappointments during their lives. Whatever disappointments they may have had in the past might not have been of this magnitude. Nevertheless, since they have survived many disappointments in life, you can expect that they will survive this also. It is better and fair to take them into confidence so that you will not have the additional stress of having hidden such a vital fact from your parents.
- Another reason you may come out with for getting an abortion done is that you are not able to support yourself independently and so, you will not be able to support a child also. It is true that financial problems are quite difficult to bear but you have several possibilities to surmount these problems. When you know that you are pregnant, you can try and change many things in your life within those nine months. Supposing you are not able to change anything on the financial front, you can even hand over a child to an adoptive home.
- You may also say that abortion is legal. But, so are many other things like gambling, smoking and drinking. Legal provisions cannot be taken as a reference point when you make emotional choices.
- Sometimes the parents themselves may insist that you should have an abortion. They may suggest this for many reasons like you are quite young and not mature enough to mother a child, you should continue your studies or pregnancy may have happened to you due to an unwanted incident. But the parents should realize that the physical and emotional stress caused by an abortion to their daughter are much greater than all these reasons.
- The reason may also be that you may not have wished a child at that juncture at all but you may have got pregnant unexpectedly. But instead of aborting the child, it is better to give birth to the child and then give it for adoption so that someone else is will feel blessed.
- You may also wish to have an abortion due to ignorance about pregnancy and its effects on your body. There are several websites on the Internet that may educate you about pregnancy. You can also get educated by elders who have experienced pregnancy and given birth to healthy children.
There are several people who will help women who have got into this problem of unintended pregnancies. You yourself can think of many creative ideas to carry the child and give birth to it. You will never regret your decision. Above all, you should seek the guidance of the Almighty so that you can take a positive and good decision so that you will not regret later in your life.
