The Moral Evaluation Of Infertility With Regard To Abortion As A Threat To The Dignity Of Human Life In Today’s World
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2019-05-29
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
Among all the things that God created and found them good, there is life as a precious
and indestructible gift that He providentially entrusted to the human person after
creating him. This very same life that God gave the human person with the aim of
sharing in his own life, was endowed with a sacred character due to its divine origin.
However, over several decades, it happens at times that, because of various
circumstances and attempts of the human person to rule himself, he or she falls within
the temptation of undervaluing life by adhering to some particular and negative
ideologies that threaten life. Some of these practices are for instance Abortion, the use
of Contraceptives, Euthanasia, and so forth. All these practices are mostly oriented
towards the economic gain since, if they are legalized in a particular country, those who
opt for them are rewarded. All these are responsible for both man’s moral, social and
psychological decline since they all go against God’s commandment that we shouldn’t
kill. In addition, there are for instance countries whereby in order to strive against the
large number of people, abortion is legalized as means through which the number of
inhabitants may be adapted to the potentialities of the State. Others favor euthanasia as
a means of getting rid of patients who have lost every kind of hope for them to recover
their health; therefore, since the patients have become a burden to the family due to a
lot of expenses in terms of medicine, through their consent or that of their families, they
choose to undergo euthanasia which is called in other terms “the serein death”, rather
than continuing suffering and to bother the family. Such a fact certainly overlooks the2
fact that no one here on earth has been entrusted the right to end up other people’s lives
without God’s consent to whom such an act is exclusively reserved.
In effect, all these kinds of ideologies are really against the Biblical teaching as well as
the Magisterial teaching of the Church with regard to the dignity of human life.
Having said that, of all the above-mentioned practices that challenge human life as well
as the moral perspective of the human person, especially in our contemporary world, I
would like to focus more upon Abortion itself as the evil practice of our times and some
of the consequences that it has upon the practitioners. To be more concise, I am going
to focus more over Induced abortion as far as the types of abortion are concerned. In
fact, those practicing abortion and promoting it think that it is a means to free female
creatures from men’s exploitation, but, on the contrary, it enhances men’s possibility
of exploiting them since men are those who mostly induce them to abortion, especially
when they are not ready to assume their responsibility towards the pregnant woman or
lady after the incident has taken place. Needless to say, it is actually obvious that we
are facing a very considerable moment of tending to substitute virtue to vice by opting
for the easy things that we judge capable of providing us the best we need for our
survival. While there are married couples longing for a child in order to stress more the
unitive and procreative dimensions of marriage, there are others who joke with life by
procuring abortion. Such a practice is done in various circumstances due to various
causes such as safeguarding job, inability to assume the responsibility upon the newlyborn baby, traumatism, unwanted pregnancy and so forth.
With regard to the consequences, we’ll base all our full interest on Infertility as an
inconvenience of excessive induced abortion on the side on the woman since it’s really
justifiable that there are women who were not born as such, but they end up becoming3
unproductive because of their adherence to some evil practices or the negative influence
that they acquire from their environment. The next part will be about reflecting more
over the relevance of human dignity with regards to the effects caused by both moral
issues. More than that, through such a practice the human person is slowly losing all
the moral values with regard to life and ends up in corrupting his conscience by
rendering it unable to discern on that which is good in contrast with that which is evil.
This is really a challenge upon which we should try to work so that we may bring the
human person back to his initial state as wanted by the Creator. This eradication will
be elaborated in the light of some moral recommendations whereby we shall try to give
some possible solutions that will allow us to assist women who are victims of the nonnatural infertility due to their adherence to the practice of Abortion.
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Moral, Evaluation, Infertility, Abortion, Threat