FYI, Abortion is illegal in Malaysia. I guess now ur the one who live under the coconut shell. If u still want to argue, please read Section 312 of Penal Code.

You can't just legalize abortion and expect the whole issue of unwanted children to go away. You will also need to provide very extensive sex education coupled with free contraception. Prevention is better cure, but not having a back-up plan(abortion) is equally short-sighted.

The main group of women who will benefit from having access to (free or subsidized) abortion are the ones who are poor and/or have no family support. This is the same group who would find contraceptives expensive/inaccessible and find themselves lacking in sex-ed.

Also, make other birth-control methods for women more accessible(IUD, depo shots etc), gives women more control over their own bodies and not be at the mercy of the man.

Long story short, legalize abortion, make sure its accessible to the poor too, but first and foremost improve sex-ed and access to contraceptives.

To me, legalising abortion is like legalising murder.
No question asked.

advantage : decrease dumping of babies
decrease the risk of woman or gal who goes for abortion
disadvantage : as time goes by ppl dont really take the life of baby as life


abortion are legal with doc letters only .

i thought its already legal. my works in a public hospital and she said doctors do abortion all the time

they should legalize prostitution

I believe abortion should be legalised.

Why?

1. To reduce crime. The reasons have been discussed in many postings above.

2. To control population. An over-populated earth is never a good thing. A new thread could even be opened just to discuss this.

3. For public health reason. Extended from the second point, an over-populated earth helps spread communicable diseases more easily. TB, AIDS, and Malaria, which are the major worries of WHO are still spreading like wildfire today.

Well said.

I believe abortion should be legalised. There are instances of illegal and unsafe abortion around the world, causing many maternal deaths. And these usually happen in developing countries where the people are less uneducated on safe sex.

People think that by legalising abortion, we are actually promoting abortion. But that is not the case. With the legalisation of abortion, we can at least be sure that procedures are standardised and safe. Women must also receive professional advice or counselling prior to abortion. Women who seek illegal abortion are most probably desperate and lost. They should be given help instead of being condemned. Professionals can inform them better on abortion and the possible complications/consequences.

That being said, I agree that abortion shouldn't be used as a form of contraception (better sex education!). But it should be available legally for women. Still, it is hard to decide which case of abortion is justifiable.

I think we as outsiders should stop the generalising about women who seeks abortion. We don't know the realities of their lives.

Exactly man, whenever people yell 'Abortion = murder', the first thing that comes to mind is how much of a hypocrite they are. They'll save a fetus to soothe their conscience, but what about afterwards when baby is born? You fellas want to chip in your time, money and emotions to adopt the baby you just saved? What about education/food/shelter/love for the next 18 years?

1st of all, we need to ask.
why we need abortion?
most of people did because they are desperate.
`mostly` are young and not married yet.
so, kawen la...apa susah2..

abortion in the event that the pregnancy endangers the mother's life is legal, recomended by doctors.

but abortion as a measurement to ERASE THE MISTAKE is totally inhumane. who are these people to decide to end a life? thinking logically, the person that needs to be "erased" are those irresponsible ones (no matter they are married or not). they should have used their brains in the first place.

is ts dumb or what? if you want to about then just abort la. its legal in my ever since 1990

should be legalize long time ago, only uncivilized thinking reject this idea

It is not important to legalize or not bcz ppl are still doing it. Guess the main diff is the amount of money the doctor charges upon legalize.