Moral & Ethical Aspects on Abortion
Do you know that an estimated number of 40-50 million women go for abortions, which amounts to approximately 125,000 abortions a day, worldwide? Till today, abortion is still one of the most controversial public policy that has been debated in many secular and non-secular countries. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. It can also occur spontaneously, also known as miscarriage. This article will be addressing issues on abortion on specific religions and legislations of different country’s abortion policy.
Abortion has been legally available in most liberal democracies for decades but there are still many non-secular and secular country that does not permit women to receive abortions due to religious belief even in the case rape or incest. A secular country might view abortion as not relating or connected with religion whereas a non-secular country might view abortion as concerning to or involving religious or spiritual matters (Oxford Dictionaries, 2015). In this paper, we will discuss on a few more conservative countries like Chile, Iran and Philippines aspects on abortion.
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Chile is located in the west coast of South America and majority of the religion in Chile are Roman Catholics (89%). Religion has played a significant role in this Latin American country defining social and political issues where it is illegal to have abortion in Chile due to the influence of the Church. Since 1875, the four attempts to redraft the criminal code, in which one proposed to legalise “compassionate” abortion, was never enacted. Abortion continued to be criminalized under all