Human Rights on abortion

I have been asked to write an article after a 21 year old woman is charged and faces life imprisonment for taking an abortion pill under a 19th century law that still applies in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland may be the country in UK where the 1967 Abortion Act does not apply. Terminations are only legal when medics prove a woman's mental or physical life is at risk. 

The County Down woman was charged with unlawfully taking the drugs mifepristone and misoprotsol with the intention of inducing a miscarriage and was also charged with supplying or procuring 'poison' for the same reason.

Protesters are raising awareness of this woman's case. Women have travelled to UK or Europe for terminations. There are expenses incurred for travel and accommodation costing about £2,000 while it is cheaper to purchase pills online via sites. Politicians and lawmakers should not turn a blind eye to terminations. It has a backyard attitude buying pills online.

I have to describe the nature or basic qualities of Human Rights. I have to explain that there are human rights and no human rights concerning terminations. There is no such thing as denying access to health care services and are not violating human rights.

Whether the Abortion Law is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights or not, is not important. A judge could argue that abortion be considered a human right in cases of rape, incest or fatal abnormalities.

I would cite reasons on grounds of poverty, danger to health, disabilities, danger to mental welfare, the embryo being deformed. These would be human rights.

But it is not human right to abuse one's body by taking poison and to induce miscarriage without reasons. This would lead to psychological problems such as 'guilty complex or wishing I had kept the child'.

These psychological problems will never end, and will stay with the person involved for the rest of one's life. Abortion Law protects women and must have control over women for these reasons. No one should self harm, or mutilate part of their bodies without medical supervision and support.

The law does need to be changed citing reasons for abortion such as having no chance of survival outside the womb etc.

I agree that it is a cruel and outdated law of the 19th century, and that no one should be imprisoned for life. But there is no reason why we should not stop making abortion illegal for the reasons I mentioned above.

Abortions must be carried out with medical supervision and support. Young girls as young as ten should be able to get help, and must have access to health care. Taking pills or any attempt to induce miscarriage will have to be punished, as it could result in serious mental and physical health complications.

While Northern Ireland has got the restrictive abortion laws in the world, they are negligent in making sure there are no pills or form of equipment used to induce miscarriage in any way from online via sites. These types of advertising and selling should be banned, so no one should fall victim to criminality of the Abortion Act. We have to draw the line on criminality and human rights.