Controversial Analysis On Abortion

Controversial Analysis

Technological developments occur every day, from medicine to medical techniques to preventive screenings, that assist in making each generation healthier than the ones that came before it. In the medical field, specifically in genetics, research into DNA modifications to remove diseases is advancing at an immense rate. Conventionally during most prenatal health appointments, women who are pregnant have the option to undergo prenatal screenings to find out if the future child is healthy, but in the last few decades testing for genetic mutations in the future child has become possible and more popular. However, not everybody sees this as a morally right act. Countless debates and questions have been sparked over the subject

All parents want their children to be healthy and live an amazing life, but what if you know your child won’t be born healthy and might not live for that long? Do you try to enjoy the time you will have with your child or do you start over and try again? These questions are what some couples must face if the tests show a disability in the fetus. For some women and couples, the decision to have the baby or not is an easy choice, but for others, it’s one of the hardest decisions they have ever made. There have been scenarios where a woman gets an abortion and regrets it for the rest of their life, but there have also been scenarios where a woman’s test comes back positive for a disability but she goes through with the pregnancy anyways and the child passed away less than a week after. Although the new screening tests are highly accurate and noninvasive (Peter Wieacker and Johannes Steinhard), there has been instances where a test came back positive for a disability and the child was born healthy. In an article by Susan Donaldson James on NBC News, a couple is featured that has a healthy 6-month old son that almost got aborted due to a prenatal test that was wrong. The test revealed that the fetus had Trisomy 18 and the doctor told the couple to prepare for the worst (James). Since there is a slight chance of the test being inaccurate one reason why

There has been a multitude of scientific advancements over the past few decades in order to make prenatal testing and selective abortion an option available for those who want it, and many more scientific advancements are still to come in order to create a safer, less harmful procedure for the bearer of the child. Modern science has completed amazing research into prenatal testing and selective abortion that seemed impossible a decade ago. However, the fact still remains that not everybody believes prenatal testing and selective abortion is ethically the right decision to make and that is why it will continue to remain an extremely controversial topic that will be debated about for a long time to come. This controversy will continue to ensue and it will be difficult to come to a complete understanding on this issue, since each person has their own right to what they want to do with their own body, and that is one of the biggest reasons why this controversy is here to