Thank you for appreciating the points. I am practicing medicine in US these days & abortion is also the most controversial topic here. Few years back, we tried to publish a paper in Obstetrics & Gyencology on developing easier & more effective abortion techniques. Guess what, when the paper went for review, it got stuck in ethical issues & never got published only because it was based abortion. In US, there is much more emphasis given on the principle of autonomy where the person has the full right over his or her own health & can deny any treatment if desired. No doctor can force them. It is a free society but when the matter comes to abortion, this free society becomes extremely conservative. A major portion of the society still considers abortion a crime. That is a mere hypocricy I believe. If the mother has a full right over her own body then child is also the part of the mother but all the time people cry out loud protesting abortion while promoting autonomy. Elections are won over abortion issues here. Abortion is a very controversial issue anyways. In India, we need to change the laws because if a poor woman is denied abortion then she may go to a quack which introduces unhealthy unsterile techniques to induce abortion. I saw a case where a quack introduced a branch of a tree laiden with some toxic metal ointment which caused sepsis in that poor lady & she died. This couple is financially stable so can go to court. Think about the poor ones in rural villages.
