Summary and Response 1

This article,"population growing at a furious rate" written in the USA TODAY on July 18, 1994, by Margaret L. Usdansky concerns the rapid increase of the population in the world, and its consequences for the global environment. The author cites, for example, Vice President Gore, who said that the rapid growth is a problem for the maintenance of the societies; and Henry Kendall, Nobel Prize winner who declared that if men do not do something in order to keep the population stable in a humane way, it will be done by the nature itself. The plan to control the population growth is possible, but faces many problems such as non-application of the plan in some countries and religious problems; so, the author states that the decreasing of the population is something difficult even with covenant among nations.

It is true that the world population growth is the main problem that faces the planet, and it is also important to control it. However, in my view, abortion,which is one of the contraception methods in use, as part of the reproductive health care, is not reasonable, because abortion first is murder, second it is dangerous, and third it leaves with culpability.

Abortion is murder, because when a woman aborts she killed a human being, so, even though it is in the first month, the baby already has three parts: spirit, soul and body. In the Bible, the book of life David declared in Psalm 139 that it was not formed and was not yet being brought to life that God's eyes saw him. God knows each of us and take notes of our acts. When a woman decides to abort she also chooses to kill a person; it is the same as someone who decides to kill an innocent, maybe to get money from this person or because of jealousy.

Abortion is dangerous for women's lives. Even if a woman could find the best physician to abort a baby, it is not certain that after the abortion there will not be some complication which will cause some irreversible damages to her organism that could lead to sterility, especially in the Less Developed Countries where health care is poor and the number of Physician per inhabitants is very low.

When someone decides to abort, it also leaves her with blameworthiness; those women are not happy even after two or three years; they still remembered that one day they did something wrong. The difference is that abortion is allowed, and then they will not be under arrest, but every day in their life there is something like a ghost in their lives. Some people who have gotten married and had good opportunities and families still thought about the first time that they went to abort. Sometimes after getting married some of them cannot have a child because, the abortion was not a success and had caused some damages. Those persons are obliged to adopt a child, because they were not able to conceive a child.

In conclusion, among the contraception methods in use, abortion first is murder, second is dangerous for women's lives, and third leaves women with blameworthiness. It is better to teach women how to avoid pregnancy than advise them to abort.

Usdansky, M. L. (1994, July 18). Population growing at a furious rate. USA TODAY.Retrieved January 26, 2009, from Lexis Nexis database.