Post IV: What is your opinion about abortion?

 

Hello, everyone! Post IV is about giving your opinion on abortion. I know, I know. It's complicated, but I don't want you to write a never-ending manifesto about it, but rather to share your view on this subject in no less than 140 words. The idea is that you give your perspective on it. your option can be political, religious, philosophical, scientific, social, technical, informative, or from  a public-health point of view.

You can:

• provide context for your argument.
• give examples.
• describe cases.
• give facts.
• cite sources.

or

• provide any other way to sustain your argument. 

Remember to leave a comment on three of your classmates' posts and another one on your teacher's post as well.

I recommend clicking the link below for better ideas:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-opinion-on-abortion-1?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

No doubt abortion is one of the most controversial and complex problems to tackle in democracy. It has always been a matter of concern for, on the one hand, pro-life people who consider abortion to be a violation of human rights, as it can be considered a “war against the child” (conservatives), and, on the other, pro-choice people who claim that restricted access to abortion violates women’s rights (progressives).

Definitely, this issue can be debated following multiple trains of thought. However, though this topic deserves further analysis in terms of its ideological, philosophical and scientific bases, I do believe that political action is necessary when being aware of the fact that Chile still has restrictions on legal abortion under certain cases.  Furthermore, Chile was, until recently, one of a few countries where abortion is illegal in all cases. To me as a Pipiolo (Chilean liberal) and advocate of a secular state, this is unacceptable.

I do not believe in God. I believe that knowledge and moral principles are culturally embedded, so they depend on what people consider acceptable in a society. I also believe that any secular and democratic state must guarantee people’s liberties, so if I don’t share religious principles, why should I be forced to follow something that I don’t believe in?

I don’t personally support postmodernist principles or ethical relativism (see Lipovetsky, 1983). Setting the parameter debate over whether you believe in God or not appears to be inadequate or not very sophisticated. Because of the government’s decision to impede the implementation of abortion in Chile, common sense is involved in a political dispute in the public eye. There is therefore a need to understand what a secular and democratic state means to guarantee people’s liberties.