It's Our Right So Let Us Choose

It's our right to chose, so let us!

In today's society abortion is now very much common place. For whatever reasons thousands of women a year make the choice to abort their unborn foetuses. Some do it for medical reasons, some do it for psychological reasons and some do it purely because they don't want to have a baby. No matter what the reason is for them choosing to terminate their pregnancies, it's a fact that it's their choice and right to do so, if they so wish.

Raving anti abortionists claim that the means to reproduce, conceive, bare a baby, have a child, whatever term you want to use, is a gift given to us by God, we should treat it accordingly and not abuse nor dismiss it. It's these such lunatics who form pressure groups aimed at persuading the government to ban abortions, go on demonstration marches expressing their views, release campaigns condemning abortions and are cemented outside abortion clinics trying to stop women's entry. These are the people who are trying to take away our choice. Amongst many of their unfounded claims it's said that the foetus has a right to live. They pronounce that the foetus's right to live is regardless when concerning the many reasons why they are to be aborted and that we as human beings are equal to the foetus. This would mean that we would consequently be infringing on the rights of any foetus if we were to abort it. The problem with their ideology and obviously their philosophy is do foetuses actually have rights? If they do, why do they? When do we give them these rights, at what stage? Do they have the same rights as the mother?

We live in a democratic society where as a fundamental right we have freedom of choice, freedom of will, freedom of speech, all of the necessaries to function in everyday l ...
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