Yimeng Zhang
Professor Haru D. Dewi
English 21011
10/01/2013
Abortion: An Unknown Adventure
In ancient time, women had relatively low possibility to do abortion, because technology was not enough, which means women need take high risk to do that. As time went by, the science and technology developed more completely and mature in our modern society. Even though the success rate of abortion has a qualitative leap, abortion is still an adventure. Abortion not only brings physical injury and psychological trauma to women, but it deprives the lives of innocent babies.
First of all, abortion causes serious physical injury to women. There is a potential risk on abortion, because no one can make sure that it is one hundred percent success. From National Right to Life News, it declared that “a large-scale, record-based study conducted in Finland by Gissler and colleagues established post-pregnancy death rates within one year that were nearly four times greater among women who aborted their pregnancies than among women who delivered their babies”(“Abortion’s Deleterious Effects on Women” 19). It represents do abortion is much more dangerous than babies delivering. Furthermore, the most dangerous situation is that women may lose the ability to have children, that’s to say, you can’t be pregnant again. It is not alarmism. Because the uterus is easily hurt during the process of abortion, and then the zygote will be hard to implant. Even though the surgery is successful, a series of sequelae may appear after that. It is possible to be postoperative infection, such as vaginitis, cervicitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease. In Sallie Tisdale’s article, it describes a girl who has been pregnant for four times at the beginning. However, this girl is just eighteen years old, doing Abortion repeatedly make her scarred and weak (500). From long-term perspective, deterioration of physical quality will be the continuing impact on women’s bodies.
In addition, the psychological trauma caused by abortion will bring unbelievable pain to women. It is conceivable that women feel guilt and shameful to themselves. In this state of mind, surfing insomnia is the most common case. They try to fall asleep, but they can’t, because once they close the eyes, the horrible memory are filled in their mind. Can you feel the pain that you can’t sleep whole night? When the situation is severe, they even lose confidence on lives, so they try the most extreme way that is to suicide. “In the year after undergoing an abortion, a woman’s mortality rate for unintentional injuries, suicide and homicide was substantially higher than among non-pregnant women in all age groups combined” (Gissler, et al. 462). What the degree of the pain let them choose to end their lives in such a way!
Their characters may also be changed due to mental stimulation. They turn to loathe this world, and another potential possibility is that they mistrust other people. Their mental condition will be in a high tension, and that may lead to many mental illnesses. For example, when a woman who experienced the abortion hears the sound of babies, she can always associate that with her unborn baby. Keeping this mental stress for a long time may bring about hallucination and schizophrenia. The statistics can illustrate this point of view easily. “In a 2001 study published by Ostbye and colleagues, 41,089 women with an abortion history were compared to a matched group of 39,220 women without a history of abortion. The results revealed a 165% higher rate of hospitalization for psychiatric problems for women who had aborted” (“Abortion’s Deleterious Effects on Women” 17). Moreover, it is so cruel that deprives babies’ lives, because they are totally innocent. For one thing, all lives are equal, and they have right to come to this world. From history, we know the Declaration of Independence also mentioned that. It stated “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Even though the babies are unburned, it can’t be denied that they are still lives. For another thing, abortion violates the humanism. To be specific, humanism advocates that we should care, respect to other based on human-centered worldview. Life is more precious than most of things in our lives.
On the contrary, some may say that women have their own reasons, so they have to do abortion. They may have various reasons, and these reasons also sound reasonable. This statement, however, is to escape responsibility, because women should be in charge of what they done. From another perspective, if you don’t want a baby in the beginning, please do some measures before the worse result. For instance, you could use condoms or take contraceptives. In some countries, using contraceptives is a vital strategy, such as Ethiopia, they advocate to use contraceptives, and the aim is to “prevent unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortion” (Tesfaye, Tilahun, Girma 3). When you are pregnant, it is too late to ensure your own safety.
In conclusion, the negative aspects of abortion are much more than positive aspects; abortion makes women suffer both physical and mental pain, and the unborn babies lose their opportunities to come to this world. Indeed, women who choose to do the abortion are taking an unknown adventure, so you don’t know what will happen. Women should have sense to treasure and protect themselves, and never use the health which is the most precious thing to our human beings as a wager. Respecting life may be the best way to respect ourselves.

Works Cited
Jefferson, Thomas. “The Declaration of Independence.” Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association, 4 Jul. 1995. Web. 25 September 2013.
Gissler, Mika, et al. “Injury Deaths, Suicides and Homicides Associated with Pregnancy, Finland 1987-2000.” European Journal of Public Health 15.5 (2005): 459-463. Print.
“Abortion’s Deleterious Effects on Women: Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Mortality Rates.” National Right to Life News 33.1 (2006): 17-20. Print.
Tesfaye, Tatek, Tizta Tilahun and Eshetu Girma. “Knowledge, attitude and practice of emergency contraceptive among women who seek abortion care at Jimama University specialized hospital, southwest Ethiopia.” BMC Women’s Health 12.3 (2012): 1-6. Print.
Tisdale, Sallie. “We Do Abortions Here.”