No to legalized abortion

No to legalized abortion

From Republika

The 2003 Indonesian Reproduction Health Profile, issued by the
Ministry of Health in cooperation with the World Health
Organization, indicates a rising number of abortions being
performed in the country, with the majority of women seeking
abortions between the ages of 15 and 24.

This situation is cause for even greater concern with some
people proposing that abortion be legalized. Though abortion is
now a crime and is forbidden by all religions, they want the
government to allow the practice and to provide the necessary
facilities.

Young women seek out abortions because they engage in
premarital sex. If abortions were legalized, they would not
hesitate to have sex outside of marriage because there would no
longer be any fear of pregnancy. Eventually, the futures of our
young people would be ruined.

Legalizing abortion would mean making sex outside of marriage
part of our culture, which would also ruin the future of the
nation. Therefore, let us join hands to reject and fight all
attempts to endorse abortion.

ARUM HARJANTI, Cibinong, West Java