The Choice of Pro-life or Pro-choice for teenager in South Kore For long time, the attitude of abortion has been always controversial and brought critical arguments between different cultures, ethics, religions, and human rights. Therefore, many countries legalize the abortion because women have right to choose their own bodies but it is still illegal in South Korea since 1953. There are exception for risk of mother’s health due to severe birth or the pregnancy was caused by a sexual crime. However, surprisingly “a 2005 study estimated that South Korea had about 340,000 abortions a year…that is about double the U.S. rate” (1). Moreover, according to Statistics Korea, There are 81% percent of teenager who experienced pregnancy, choose to abort their baby (2).
Many Korean parents encourage their children to abort the baby when they found out her pregnancy during teenager. This is because she has to suffer bad treatment from society and even her family. In Korean culture, if child did something wrong with anything, people would blame his or her parent about not properly educated their child. Furthermore, there …show more content…
One of the procedure called Dilation and Evacuation abortion, which use forceps to twist and tear the bones of the unborn child until totally removed (6). Any other procedures are also hard to imagine killing innocent human being. According to Maureen Condic, an associate professor of neurobiology asserts that “there is universal agreement that pain is detected by the fetus in the first trimester…whether a fetus has the same pain experience as a newborn” (5). Also she mentions that most primitive response to pain is from spinal reflex not cortex which able to detect noxious stimuli by 8 to 10 weeks of development (5). So that fetus is able to feel pain without a cortex. In other words, fetus is able to feel pain even it developed only 8 weeks during abortion
Many Korean parents encourage their children to abort the baby when they found out her pregnancy during teenager. This is because she has to suffer bad treatment from society and even her family. In Korean culture, if child did something wrong with anything, people would blame his or her parent about not properly educated their child. Furthermore, there …show more content…
One of the procedure called Dilation and Evacuation abortion, which use forceps to twist and tear the bones of the unborn child until totally removed (6). Any other procedures are also hard to imagine killing innocent human being. According to Maureen Condic, an associate professor of neurobiology asserts that “there is universal agreement that pain is detected by the fetus in the first trimester…whether a fetus has the same pain experience as a newborn” (5). Also she mentions that most primitive response to pain is from spinal reflex not cortex which able to detect noxious stimuli by 8 to 10 weeks of development (5). So that fetus is able to feel pain without a cortex. In other words, fetus is able to feel pain even it developed only 8 weeks during abortion