TALKING ABOUT ABORTION (as submitted to Planetary Magazine)
Submitted by Luciana Pimentel on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 10:41:37 AM EST.
When an adolescent girl becomes pregnant, she loses an important part of her life, carrying about someone else's life and does not have time to have fun and care about herself. Because of that, many pregnant girls decide to abort in order to continue having what they have had until that moment.
But abortion brings many consequences, for example, the person's life is exposed to danger, and the person is associated with illness and death. It can result in hemorrhage too. Long term consequences include chronic pain and infertility due to infections in the upper genital tract. And in many cases, many young women are expelled from school or fired from their jobs, further limiting their opportunities to have a good salary.
Abortion is not good, because the girl takes a baby's life and puts her own life in danger. If she doesn't want to be pregnant, she needs to be careful, using protection or, if she does not have money or does not want to use it, she should not have sex.
Class P21
Marina Correia Piqueira MaiaMaia
Eugênia Gomes de Sá Freire
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