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the unborn, got so moved by the same that he requested every American senator to see this film. Mr. Ronald was keen on changing the abortion laws.
If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell others not to kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any type of violence, to get what they want.
Many countries have opposed encouraging abortion.
Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan said that Islam does not permit abortion unless the foetus possess grave danger to the life of the mother. Until the year 1971, undergoing or performing an abortion were legally treated as criminal offences and according to IPC Section 312, those undergoing, performing or encouraging abortions were liable to conviction for a period extending from 3 years to life imprisonment.
According to the new act of 1971, if, in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner:
(a) the continuation of pregnancy endangers the pregnant's life or could cause grave injury to her physical or mental health.
(b) There is a serious danger of the new born being disabled, crippled or otherwise, physically or mentally abnormal.
Then, for aborting a foetus of upto 12 weeks and upto 20 weeks foetus after consulting another registered medical practitioner, he will not be considered guilty. 'Grave injury to mental health.'
The second explanation of the conception taking place owing to the failure of the means of contraception has in effect given a blanket freedom and full legal sanction to
undergoing or performing Foeticide and has really caused 'grave injury' to the purpose.
As a result the number of foeticides started growing by leaps and bounds and performing abortion become a well-established business. Advertisements for undergoing abortion and getting rid of the unwanted child started appearing in every nook and corner of the country.
The Govt. statistics itself states that whereas 2,06,710 abortion took place in 1976, the figures rose to 18,21,004 in 1981
About 5,14,700 abortions take place every year and the number is increasing every year.
Killing by abortion is even more cruel than killing by hanging, because whereas hanging kills instantaneously, in abortion the unborn child is tortured to death. Whereas capital punishment is awarded to a dangerous criminal, the victim of an abortion is totally innocent. Had these innocent lives have a right to present themselves in a court of law or to fight their cause by moving a petition, no power on earth could save the killers, the parents or the doctors of the innocent victims of abortions, from capital punishment. If it is a crime to burn and kill the undesirable wives, if it is a crime to kill those blind, handicapped, suffering from cancers or AIDS, those tired of old age and praying for their own death due to continuous physical and mental suffering, then why it is not a crime to kill the innocent unborn.
Parental testing or Aminisynthesis was started to determine the hereditary defects and diseases and defect in the chromosomes was a scientific achievement because with the help of these tests, 72 incurable and hereditary diseases could be diagnosed.
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