Monday, October 11, 2010

A different point of view about Euthanasia and Abort

I selected the article: “Abortion and Euthanasia: was Virginia Ironside right?”, because I think that this topic is very controversial, and how I study anthropology I need to have a position of this topic, because the abortion and euthanasia is a practice that belong to the human’s culture.
Virgina Ironside suggested, in the Sunday Morning live program, euthanasia for sick children. And she said that she would kill any child or any creature that is suffering.
The rev Joanna Jepson is famous for attempting to prosecute a doctor who carried out a late abortion, she always keep calm but this time her face shot open.
Ironside said that Abortion or euthanasia could be a moral choice and argued that if a woman had a unwanted child or a child being born profoundly disabled then abortion is a good decision.
Ironside joined in the same sentence “unwanted” and “disabled”, this can appear like a offense for the disabled people.
Ironside is a pro-choice that defended the position of a moral choice saying that the anti-abortist’s moral superiority is based on the idea of a human life springing into being at the moment sperm meets egg. But if you don't believe that, then the argument has no moral weight at all.
Ironside is not against the disabled people she only said: “life is not a gift per se”.
We have not to take this as a tacit fact, we have to discuss this topics. You can find this article in this link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/04/virginia-ironside-tv-euthenasia-abortion
Kisses and hugs.
Bye-bye, see you later.

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