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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Abortion In The Teenagers Circles

Many teenagers in Indonesia are doing abortion. Abortion is forbidden in Indonesia. Abortion is a criminal action. It is kill embryo in the womb. However, many teenagers do not have knowledge and information about it, so they do it. They have many reasons why they doing it. Besides, abortion is very dangerous for teenager. It has many effects for them.
Teenagers have many reasons to do abortion.
First of all, to hide a mistake. Their pregnancy is the effect of free sex, so they hide a mistake with kill the baby. Sex education is taboo to be told, because of it, many teenagers do not know the effect of free sex thus they do it without guilty. After they are pregnant, they feel shy. As a result, abortion is a good choice for them. Data collected by Indonesian Family Planning Association (PKBI) shows that three million Indonesian women had abortions Of that number, 600,000 were unmarried, the Indonesian Observer reported .Most of them have a same reason, they are hiding a mistake because of free sex.
Second, because their pregnancy is the effect of violation. Some of them not already yet to have baby. They do not wish their pregnancy. Third, because of economic factor. Many teenagers are from low economy. They feel can not save their baby. Their financial not able to support or care for a child. Last, they do not want to have baby because of their school and other responsibility. Some teenagers doing abortion are students. Students are forbidden to have baby; therefore, they do not want their baby disturb their school and other responsibility.
Moreover, abortion is very dangerous for teenagers. It has any effects for them. Abortion causes the death. Many teenagers die because of abortion. For example, Michael, 18 years old. She was died after she had abortion. She took out much blood continuously from her body; therefore, she lost much blood in her body. Dr. Hj. Maria Ulfah Anshor a leader of Fatayat NU said that 207 women per 100.000 rate of birth are died because of abortion. In addition, abortion can cause breast cancer. According to studies done by Dr. Janet Daling there is reported fifty percent increase of breast cancer among women fewer than forty five who had induced abortions. These results were published in the august Journal of the National Cancer Institute. (Ranalli 1996, A13).

Furthermore, abortion causes infertility. Because an abortion is a surgery there is a risk of damaging the nearby organs (i.e. Ovaries), but due to the nature of this part of the body there can be serious consequences to the reproductive future of women. In these types of pregnancies the baby grows in the fallopian tubes, causing serious risk to the mother, and an almost certain death to the baby. Women who have their first pregnancy terminated have five times the chance of having ectopic pregnancies. (Gentles 1990, 77) Infertility is also a possible complication of a previous abortoin. A woman writes, "After the abortion, I tried to make up for the abortion by trying to get pregnant again. I wanted my baby back. I never got pregnant again." (Michelle C. 1996, 12) There has been proven an increase in complications because of abortions.
In conclusion, many teenagers in Indonesia doing abortion. They have different reason to do it. Nevertheless, their reason is same. They unwanted their pregnancy because of effect of free sex. Abortion has many effects for teenagers. Most of them are fatal effects. Hundred teenagers are died because of abortion.

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