Many European and Asian countries too need to rethink and reform legislation on abortion
TERUAL, SPAIN: The other day I read a dreadful bit of news. There was an interview of a young Argentine woman who was serving a sentence for stabbing to death her newborn baby. In Argentina abortion is still illegal and by the tone of the interview after conceiving a baby out of wedlock it showed from the circumstances that the woman was now repaying for what she had done. Hence it might be inferred that if abortion was legal in Argentina, she would have aborted her child and had not killed the baby. She could have escaped imprisonment and emotional distress over stabbing the child. This and many others such incidents make it necessary to legalise abortion. If she had lived in Spain or any other country that allows abortion, she would have aborted the baby at any of the centres legally established.
A lot of European and Asian countries too need to rethink and reform legislation on abortions. This will not compel mothers to kill their children. Women who cannot support children due their economic circumstances should be allowed to terminate pregnancies.
Alejandro Perez Benedicto
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2018.
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