ARTICLE BY MAPAKO GAMUCHIRAI
The global village has been in shambles after the United States of America made abortion illegal in most of its states.
Caitlin Moran a famous writer said, “I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the feeblest of efforts to really treat human life as sacred”.
Those from the USA and the rest of the world who strongly believe that abortion should be legal, have taken to their social media to criticise USA for making abortion illegal but still fails to put strict laws on the purchasing of guns by citizens especially after so many mass shootings across the country including an elementary school.
It is not news that abortion is illegal in Zimbabwe and connected with immorality in the society however, due to the change in people’s mind-sets, this topic has sparked many questions in most countries including Zimbabwe where abortion can only be performed in special cases. However, one can easily argue that it is an even bigger crime to bring a child into an unstable environment. Zimbabwe especially has a rising number of teen pregnancies and sometimes minors who can barely financially support themselves but have to bring a child into the picture. Ironically the government is only concerned about a child before conception but after that it is completely forgotten and the unready mother carries all the responsibilities.
From a psychological point of view broken parents raise broken children. By indirectly forcing a child on a woman who is not ready for parenthood, the government raises a broken future generation
Pope John Paul II a renowned religious leader of his time said, “Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law”. The likes of prophet Magaya, Makandiwa, have also been firm believers of this view because although the public across the world may think differently, the Christian world are pro-life and share the same mind which maintains that abortion is a sin. However, the view that abortion is murder according to public opinion has been said to be an outright lie. According to the CDC almost all abortions happen before the 13th week and a foetus without a cerebral cortex cannot think or feel and this is before the 27th week.
“Until the state or the church takes full responsibility for a new-born, no bill or bible is qualified to even offer suggestions on a woman’s right to abortion”, said Abhijit Naskar.
Margaret Sanger said that no woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. From a feminist point of view, making abortion illegal is a clear violation of human rights for women and shames the government for imprisoning a woman who aborts longer than a man who rapes. In the likes of USA, abortion is punishable by 15 years while rape is only three years. Most woman have taken this as the government’s modern way of telling women that they belong at home giving birth and cooking for their husbands. It is an inarguable fact that no matter what the law says, abortion is a part of everyday life and women have always had them, they always have and they always will.
The question of the century now is, are they going to have good ones or bad ones?
Unholy Hour Thoughts 