ABORTION: THE PARADOXES, THE
COMPLEXITIES AND THE PERPLEXITIES
ELUSIYAN
TOLU’ FRANCIS
As I sit and begin to write, and nothing is in sight,
but something came to mind, I can’t believe you took his life, you should know
now and knew then that you have no right. It was a selfish choice that you
made. You chose yourself when his life, you could have saved.
Though the baby’s conceived, without being planned. A
night of passion, with an unknown or known man. Nine months are slowly getting
close, you are surrounded by his blanket, slowly he is growing in your womb,
please do not send him to the tomb. Have mercy on him, he can become great
tomorrow, let him live, he also has the right to life “ejo, edakun, emabinu” let
him also live “ko le di iru, kole dogban lola”
Much we have seen much we have heard. Stories and sceneries
about abortion cases. Stories about the survivors, stories about the so called
doctors, stories about the mothers. Sometimes these stories support the
children, and the pro life cause, but other times they support the pro choice
movement.
If we think about it for a moment, their titles is all
wrong. They are not pro choice at all. They are anti life campaigners. The ultimate
child abuse, child molesting, physical and emotional abuse of children is all
forms of child abuse, but abortion too.
Abortion is morally and ethically wrong, and damaging
and should be jettisoned and be illegal. Abortion of a human life within the
mother’s womb is physically damaging, emotionally traumatic and ethically
wrong. The attempted murder of a human life still within the mother’s womb is
physically damaging, to both mother and child. If the abortionist makes a
“mistake” and the baby which was being aborted is born alive, the chances of
them having a debilitating disorder is high such disorders has cerebral palsy.
These are common among the survivors. In some cases, the process of abortion is
also harmful to the mother, such as future pregnancy being impossible, even the
mother bleeding to death. These procedures are dangerous, extremely risky and
very damaging. These damages are almost always irreversible and affect both
mother and child.
Doesn’t the law clearly state that murder is a horrendous
criminal offence, and the murder should be jailed? Well then, why does the law
permit the killing of a human life within the womb? May be it is because they
cannot speak out. That is, unless the abortionist who is trying to kill them
didn’t finish the job properly. Then they can survive if the abortionist does
not get to them first. Abortionist can try to kill a mistakenly born child by
other horrific means such as strangulation. You can’t convince pro lifers that
this is by any measure fair. The law is very slack and doesn’t enforce its own
rules for murder.
Abortion is very literally, murder but the law is
slack, and in many cases, the knowledge of an abortion is hush-hush. Abortion
equals violence, oppose both.
Arakunrin ati Arabinrin (ladies and gentle men) for a mother to kill a human
life, within her womb is emotionally traumatic for her. The full effects may
take years to surface, but the guilt, when it comes, can be as torturous as
killing a fully-formed human. So articles have shown that the emotional scars
suffered by women who have had abortions “oyun sise” are quite tragedic in
nature. Many regret the decision they made to kill their child. They say that
if they had the choice again, they would choose a different course of action. “o ga
o: e pa o boro mo: aso ti bo lorun omo eye,omo eye ti rin iho ho woja”
The emotional scars cannot be seen but can only be
felt in the heart and told by those who have the scars. There is no doubt to
whether killing a baby is traumatic for most mothers, the question is just
whether we choose to listen to the cries of their hearts. Emotions after all
can be ignored, but will you choose to ignore, or give the mothers of this
world hope for forgiveness?
The Christian message brought a dignity to the concept
of the individual person and the value of life. The gospel taught that Jesus
was conceived in Mary’s womb by the Holy Spirit. What grew in her womb from
conception was not a blob of tissue, but the person of the God-man Jesus. So
growing in each pregnant mother’s womb, is not just a blob, it is a person, the
beautiful person God has created. What then, gives us the right to torture,
then murder, the God given, God created human life, within the womb? Nothing “ko si
rara ati rara ni”
This entire concept cannot be proven. It is a faith
belief. If the pro life forces triumph and abortion is again condemned, it may
be that other family preserving values will be strengthened. But if we fail,
few other family values or interpersonal moral values can endure if the one
person ordained by nature and God to protect each helpless innocent little one
is allowed to kill her own flesh and blood to “solve” her own personal social
or economic problem.
Through abortion, the mother can be physically damaged
beyond repair and emotionally traumatised with guilt. Abortion should be
illegal, because of the repercussions suffered by the mother, child and other
family members. Abortion is morally and ethically wrong and damaging and should
be illegal. Abortion is an immediate, personal one on one, voluntary decision over which participating person has
direct control that is except for the unborn. Who will speak for them? Who will
stand up for the life which they represent? Will you?
