Abortion: Do we have the right to decide ?

What is abortion?  

Abortion is the termination of an embryo or fetus. The procedure differs depending on which stage the parents decide to have the abortion. For example, if a woman is 7-8 weeks pregnant, doctors could give her a pill to release the embryo from the uterine wall. In this case, when the embryo is released, it feels and looks like the woman is just having her period. 

However, if the mother is between the 8 and 12 weeks of pregnancy, abortion becomes a more invasive procedure. Doctors vacuum the embryo out surgically. At this stage, the fetus probably feels pain since its nervous system is completely developed.

These procedures exist because of new technologies that were originally created in order to further the field of medicine. Unfortunately, they are used in order to end with the beginning of new lives that are not responsible of their mother’s choices, and, furthermore; facing pregnancy is really difficult if people are not prepared to have a child, since there a lot of factors people will have to deal with during parenthood. An abortion, then, is not a decision easy to take, but it has to be done with responsibility.

Regarding what you just read:

Do you think there is a period of pregnancy in which abortion is not unethical?

Click  hereto check an article named  "Ethics of Abortion: Is it Moral or Immoral to Have an Abortion?", which it is related with this topic.

Choosing your baby’s sex: Unnatural selection

Can you imagine choosing your baby’s sex by just taking a pill with nanotechnology able to genetically change a fetus’s sex?

 For centuries human beings have dreamt of manipulating the results of the genetic gamble in the moment of conception, and often choosing the sex of the baby is on the top of the list of things to do.  In fact recent studies have found that this is viable.

These methods were discovered by accident trying to improve pre-existing methods of treating infertility. Some of these methods are very invasive, and the couples need to start the procedure in laboratories (in vitro). Then the egg that is fertilized is put in the mother’s uterus, and voilá, your boy or girl baby is on its way!.

Of course, these kinds of practices open the debate about the moral boundaries of biotechnology and how to control it. Some detractors think that we have to maintain the natural selection of the babies because if we start manipulating the natural course of life it will break the amazing opportunities that it can offer us; trying to limit life’s mysteries can lead us to our own destruction.

Some believers in this method said that these kind of techniques can prevent abortion in some countries such as China, in which abortion conditioned by sex it is legal.

Are you willing to change the natural sex of your baby, why?

More information about this : 

You can read an article from CBS News here :

Choose The Sex Of Your Baby By Rebecca Leung, CBS News