Sunday, October 25, 2015

การทำแท้งเสรี

วันนี้อ่านข่าวจากเว็บ BBC ถึงเรื่องการสนับสนุนการทำแท้งและการไม่สนับสนุนการทำแท้งในอเมริกา อ่านแล้วเศร้ามากกับการที่มีผู้อยากให้มีทางเลือกในการทำแท้งเสรี

ส่วนตัวไม่สนับสนุนการทำแท้งเสรี คิดว่าด้วยกฏหมายที่มีอยู่ให้ทางเลือกกับผู้ที่มีปัญหากับการตั้งครรภ์ได้มากพอ หากต้องการมากกว่านั้นควรต้องมีการกลั่นกรองจากหลายๆฝ่าย เพราะการทำอะไรเสรีทำให้คนตัดสินใจแบบมักง่าย คิดให้ตัวเองหมดปัญหา โดยไม่คิดถึงลูกของตัวเอง คนเป็นแม่ปกติไม่คิดแบบนั้น

US abortion debate: Both sides speak

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    Abortion is a highly contested issue in the United States, despite a 1973 Supreme Court decision legalising the procedure. Two women on both sides of the issue talked to the BBC.
State and federal opponents of abortion have returned their attention to Planned Parenthood, a healthcare non-profit group with 59 affiliates and 700 clinicsaround the US, some of which provide abortion services. 
The most recent controversy was touched off after an anti-abortion organisation called The Center for Medical Progress secretly recorded a Planned Parenthood official discussing how to obtain aborted foetal tissue for medical research.



In this July 28, 2015, file photo, Erica Canaut, center, cheers as she and other anti-abortion activists rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas,Image copyrightAP

Pro-life advocates say this proves Planned Parenthood is selling foetal parts for profit - which is illegal - although the tape does not show the official explicitly saying as much. The organisation said only 1% of their clinic offer tissue donation - not sales - as an option. But it eventually changed its policies so that no clinics could be reimbursed for their donations.
Most of the estimated $450m (£292m) in federal funding given to Planned Parenthood clinics comes in the form of reimbursements for health services like Pap smears. The clinics are blocked from using such funding for abortions.
Meanwhile in Texas, lawmakers have said they will cut all Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, alleging the clinics were "no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner". On Thursday, the state investigators arrived at clinics in three Texas cities, ordering Planned Parenthood to turn over documents.



Planned Parenthood supporters rally for women's access to reproductive health care on National Pink Out Day at Los Angeles City Hall, 29 September 2015Image copyrightAP

The state was already embroiled in a lawsuit against legislation that effectively shut down many of the state's abortion clinics.
The BBC has spoken to two women about where they stand in the abortion debate - one woman who turned to Planned Parenthood for her own abortion, and another who organises one of the largest anti-abortion rallies in Washington, DC.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34611878


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