ABORTION, THE GREAT DIVIDE.

ABORTION, THE GREAT DIVIDE.

No other issue has been as divisive as the abortion in current sociopolitical structure of our nation. On one hand, no one can deny the fact that an unborn child deserves the right to live as intended by nature. On the other hand, a woman’s right to choose can not be ignored, because an unwanted child can become a source of resentment, neglect and lack of happiness. I know this much for sure that if a child is born, he or she should not be born into a lifelong of poverty, neglect and rejection, because this will be the cruelest thing to inflict onto a new born. The society has an obligation to provide a newborn with unbounded love, care and support. Every child should be surrounded with means that can bring acceptance and happiness. Unfortunately, there are millions of children around the world who are suffering from hunger, lack of health care and education. Many die before they can reach their first birthday anniversary. In this respect, the entire humanity is guilty of crimes against humanity.

Furthermore, the global political leadership is also, in my opinion, guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, of wasting our global resources on whimsical wars and conflicts while failing to stop genocides that violate the very principles of humanity. The magnitude of their ignorance can not be measured by any known methods available to humanity today. Under these unacceptable conditions, the validity of principles of theocracy that supports life can not be hold true for any religious and political leadership who oppose abortion. Those leaders who support right to life are curiously absent when it comes to sustaining a newborn’s right to happiness. In fact, many of these leaders are strangely silent when humanity needs to stand against personal whims of political leaders who wish to declare wars and kill millions of innocent men, women and children in order to win, in most cases, a supposedly noble place in the dusty pages of history, primarily, to satisfy their egos. It becomes a meaningless echo when those leaders talk about “Peace on Earth” during certain times of the year. Their rhetoric becomes nothing less than the lowest form of self centered demagoguery while their agenda for the betterment of humanity becomes self serving global destruction.

There is so much energy devoted to arguing pros and cons of abortion that many other important issues that are extremely important for the advancement of any society go unresolved. Here, in the United States, the issue of abortion is so divisive that it dominates the entire political process. In order to end this political division of our people, a compromise needs to be reached, so that our political leadership can turn its attention to solving our ever increasing social, political and economic problems.  This compromise is The Great Compromise, a road to build bridges between the opposing parties of the abortion issue.

It is generally accepted that a human embryo takes a more familiar shape after the first trimester of a normal pregnancy, therefore, no abortion should be allowed after this period. Partial birth abortion should be considered a severe criminal act because it takes away the life of a fully developed unborn. After the first trimester, an abortion should only be allowed if the pregnancy poses an unmanageable risk for the mother’s life or results in an abnormal anatomy which will make it impossible for the newborn to lead a normal and independent life. The decision to terminate must be approved by two medical doctors independently in consultations with the mother of the unborn. The decision should be made by the medical community only with legal authorities and courts being left outside the decision process. On the other hand, an abortion should be allowed within the first trimester of a pregnancy without any interference if expectant mother wishes to do so. This compromise will allow a woman’s right to choose, but only within the first trimester of pregnancy while protecting the right of the unborn to live once the fetus is fully developed. As a result, once the time period of the first trimester ends, woman’s right to choose terminates to uphold the right of an unborn to live.

Of course, the best approach to abortion is prevention, because the best abortion is the one which does not takes place in the first place. All restrictions to prevention methods approved by medical profession should be removed at all levels of governments regardless of differences of opinion.  

History of our country is full of examples of great compromises. Our constitution is one such example. I believe there is a good possibility that the abortion issue can became another such example.