An Ethical Dilemma involving Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion

There are many afflicting decisions we have to deal with in choosing options that sometimes have to be specified especially when it is crucial between life and death. On the other hand, it depends on the arbitrary decisions that direct the determination of a judgment or are defined by law. In a world full of traditions where cultures and religions are judged based on the principle of life, you need to examine yourself and understand what is necessary or what is not, indicating how you believe and value those kinds of moral principles.  A person, specifically, a woman has a right from her virtue ethic point of view where she has the right to do as she pleases her own body, and has the right to choose whether she wants to do something. But in a Christian view “the human body is a temple of God” where women must clean and never be sinful. Contrary to the views of women today, they believe that they have the rights for their own body with regard to bearing a child. As we all know the unwanted pregnancy and abortion is being very sensitive and serious topic for over the years in the perceptions of the adult who has knowledge how to deal with it without any regards in life to protect their children for becoming motherhood at an early age. Eventually, unwanted pregnancy occurs any time due to many reasons that actually forced and unwillingness of some women and teen agers entering into asexual activity without thinking. This includes the ethical analysis in philosophical terms between different pregnancies' decisions whether to keep or abort. 

The issue about the unwanted pregnancy that might lead to abortion is all over social media, television, and magazines and revolves around the society especially in the principle of cultural and religious beliefs. There are existing pro-lifers or “anti- abortion” and pro-choice that may harm the decision of the parent whether they keep their unborn fetus or choose the path of choices where they can live peacefully without worrying anything could bring trouble to them. Traditionally, we rely on the opinions of others to make informed judgments in situations with complex preferences and compare the situation with the opinions of others and one’s own perspective to weigh what is appropriate to create a decision that you think it is very desirable to choose but you need to act based on your conscience, responsibilities and what principles you hold. When you are in a difficult situation, you have to choose who you are willing to save or not. To support this principle of justice in the ethical dilemma where patient-based care decision making based on she/he may or may not afford to lose is unethical and sometimes we find that there is nothing right to do, but accept the awful results. Furthermore, keep in mind that critical thinking and awareness must be present before making a decision, and questions about principles can be described as What-If questions. Such a conflict between values and moral perspectives is part of everyone’s social life — that sometimes the option we finally fix can be rooted in what we expect to live. It may or may not correspond to its kind of moral right. Certainly, this ethical dilemma exists in our society especially when it comes to decision about unwanted pregnancy and abortion from cultural and religious point of view. But why is unwanted pregnancy considered an ethical problem? What is the connection of this principle to the same morality? How does this affect your morality in decision making whether it is good or bad, right or wrong and justice or injustice?

To understand well what exactly the ethical dilemma is, the word dilemma from the Greek word di (twice) and lemma (premise) is defined as a situation wherein a person has to choose between things that are all bad, unsatisfactory or unacceptable. People need to deal with the difficult options between two choices they wanted or, contrastingly, two unpleasant choices when a dilemma takes place. Involving the ethics, from the Greek word Ethos denote as a character and from Old French word ethique referring to the science of morals is a set of moral principles, especially those that relate to or affirm a specific group, field, or form of conduct in which the human morality originates with Greek philosophers in the fifth century B.C.E. An ethical dilemma, known as ethical paradoxes or moral dilemmas are the state in which a doer stands under two conflicting moral requirements, not for a moment in which disallow the other and a situation that creates problems, conflict, or situations with two possible solutions. Considering that a person has to make a very difficult choice and must choose between two or more actions in things of equal importance, where you can pick only one. There is an existing moral reason for each choice. 

You’re pregnant” are, the worst possible words a teenage couple may want to hear if anything, the last thing they want to hear. Not only is there teenage life over but also their educational career. Terrified, scared many teens walk out of clinics with the thoughts of either abortion or adoption. Many decide to keep the baby, but many thoughts run through their mind. “How am I going to tell my parents?’’, “How can i financially support this child?’’ , “ How am I going to take care of this child?’’ Regardless of which choice you make, someone will suffer or something terrible will happen. In a particular situation, you should think twice before making a good and correct decision, rather than thinking quickly and aggressively, even if it brings you an outcome which may be contrary to your beliefs and expectations. In some ways, the point of deciding between two difficult choices is to figure out which one you are sacrificing. These questions occur: Why does there existing ethical dilemma correlate to abortion? Why do we have to choose between two options that challenge our beliefs whether it is right or wrong? Why do we have to sacrifice for one and leave the other after choosing? These questions can offer you a clue on the way to get back with several queries that are attempting to resolve in a life and death relationship where the ethical dilemma must exist.

In the case of the unwanted pregnancy which remains common but currently it becomes much more present as serious issue which is in connection to abortion which has an opportunity to open inside the society. Women of every social class are seeking the chance of terminating their pregnancy in a various reasons such as raped or incest, unprotected sexual activity, or a financial instability. Given the privilege to open up the issue as an analysis, appears the debate where abortion should be legalized or not. By inferring an ethical dilemma where choosing incorrect actions produce a good result and the good behavior produces incorrect results. In relation to abortion, unwanted pregnancy may result of depression or suicide that might affect the life of a child they bearing. One of the four women is at risk at unwanted pregnancy especially those sexually active and able to be pregnant and occurs to those using and not using contraceptive method. More often, young teenage girls are involved early in aborting unborn fetuses since they are not preferred to be a mother and they are still studying and young to raise a child that might be half of their age to protect their image. 

Whether a woman engaged in voluntary sexual activity or not, does not use birth control pills and becomes pregnant, it can be said that she has signed a contract with her fetus where it has become part of the mother's body and every human beings have their own rights to decide for themselves. Unlike in some part of countries where law related to abortion and it’s being illegal different from other countries, eastern culture considered the abortion an antisocial act but there are different circumstances where abortion became necessary like after rape, when mothers and fetus life is in danger and when parent are incapable to bear a child because of financial matters that may point out that the abortion should be legalized to help mothers and maternal health.

 Consistent with the cultural and religious belief, ethical dilemma in unwanted pregnancy and abortion challenge your moral obligations to society. Where they value the sanctity of life, which the unborn fetus has the right to live and see how beautiful the world is. Many  clinical study claims that there are risks and common side effects when a woman experience after abortion  such as bleeding that is lasts 14 days, cramping, dizziness, drowsiness, and nausea that may affect her health. In fact, there is higher possibility for complications such as damage to the womb, excessive bleeding, incomplete abortion, and even death. The pro-lifers believe in the importance of life. 

Based on the report of  Guttmacher Institute referring to the issue growing in southeast countries, a lot of women are unable to achieve their desired family size and they haven't met their needs for contraception. Some young women involved in unwanted pregnancy used drugs and other contraception especially some herbs that assume that has a big effect on an unborn fetus once delivered. Some of them have inborn diseases, some of them are having problems and difficulties as a result. Unsafe abortion carries many possible risks. According to the report of World Health Organization, six out of 10 unintended pregnancy end with induced abortion and for having lack of access to safe, affordable, timely and doing such unsafe abortion may lead to a critical public health and human right issues.