Reflection On Abortion

STUDY UNIT 1

REFLECT ON YOUR OWN DEVELOPMENT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK PLAYED THE BIGGEST ROLE IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT?

My development was quite a journey until where I am presently. I was raised by both my parents and my grandmother. The factors that happened through my life played a huge role and have made me the person I turned out to be today. I believe what played the most critical role in my life is the fact that I had full support from my parents and they are very loving and caring. It was a good environment or rather a good institution for raising children.

This helped me grow and develop normally and experience a lot of challenges which were positive for me because I learned a lot from them and they helped me discover many things. It was quite

Abortion can be a very sensitive and emotional issue especially for women. After the presidential election of Mr Thabo Mbeki, abortion was legalized was legalized and children were allowed to perform it without the permission from their parents. The termination of pregnancy act of 1996 legalized abortion on the request to South Africa. There are many unsafe backstreet terminations of pregnancy, due to high risk teenage pregnancies.

ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST IT?

The view which I have personally is simply supporting abortion. I believe that abortion can and it has helped many women and girls on various occasions. In the black population, precisely it is seen as a taboo to abort a child and parents usually become furious when their daughters tell them they are pregnant, this has led to many girls aborting without their parent’s consent. Abortion thus helps girls to abort unplanned pregnancies which might disturb their studies, relationship with parents and social relationships with peers. I believe that abortion helps with such issues and those girls can thus finish their academics if they fall pregnant while

The fact that I am a Christian, it is powerfully forbidden and some beliefs strongly condemns this kind of behaviour. There are some of the points to support the above statement; these are some of the following. As a Christian it is totally wrong for both genders to engage in any form of sexual relationship or in the marriage for that matter. Same sex marriage partners can’t even have children unless adopted. Such partners I believe they are sexually confused.

HOW HAS THE MODULE DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IMPACTED ON YOUR ATTITUDES?

The developmental psychology module impacted my attitudes by teaching me that the equal clause in the South African constitutional’s bill of right expressly prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. It has made me realise that as people we are unique and we all different in any matter. We are clearly not the same in everything we do and think, our behaviour is way different i.e. only an individual can understand his/her behaviour at all times, although to me I still believe that the same sex marriage is wrong , I learned to appreciate it and respect