1. Pros and Cons of Abortion
Pros
• 1. Seriously affects teenagers' future: disrupt education & career
• 2. Prevent raising an unwanted child e.g. rape victims
• 3. Prevent raising a child under unprepared circumstances: limited
financial resources, poor environment, lack of mental preparation
and know-how
• 4. A fetus is not a human being; fetus does not feel pain or has a
'soul' (Stuart W.G. Derbyshire, PhD) "Not only has the biological
development not yet occurred to support pain experience, but the
environment after birth, so necessary to the development of pain
experience, is also yet to occur."

2. Pros and Cons of Abortion
• 5. Modern abortion procedures are safe, if
they are legal and professionally-performed.
• 6. Gives couples the option to choose not to
give birth to babies with severe and life-
threatening medical conditions.
• 7. Population control: reduce problems such
as malnutrition, starvation, poverty, lack of
resources

3. Pros and Cons of Abortion
• Cons
• 1. Right to survive should be protectd
• 2. Killing a human being is wrong
• 3. Contraceptives are easily accessible
• 4. Abortions cause psychological damage to
women (A 2002 peer-reviewed study published
by the Southern Medical Journal of more than
173,000 American women found that women
who aborted were 154% more likely to commit
suicide than women who carried to term)

4. Pros and Cons of Abortion
• 5. Strong need for adoptable babies; too many
couples waiting to adopt
• 6. Abortion due to genetic abnormality is
discrimination; physical disability still has right
to live
• 7. Abortion increases likelihood of future
miscarriages

5. Theories / Explanation on teenage
pregnancy & abortion
Teenage Pregnancy:
• Lack of sex education involving contraception, or
appropriate use of contraception
• Adolescents lack in judgment; have thrill-seeking
tendencies and look for instant gratification
• Personal Fable (Elkind, 1967): form of egocentrism
common in adolescent stage – teenagers tend to
believe that they are special and are excluded from bad
things happening to them – leads to risk-taking
behaviour
• Lack of supervision or education from parents,
guardians or role models

6. Theories / Explanation on teenage
pregnancy & abortion
• Rejection or lack of affection from parents,
leading teenage girls to seek affection from
opposite sex.
• Peer pressure – teenagers may use sexual
experience to increase social status; or pressured
into having unprotected sex by friends or
boyfriends
• Alcohol abuse – affects judgment and decrease
teenager’s ability to control impulses
• Desensitisation from media towards sex

7. Theories / Explanation on teenage
pregnancy & abortion
Teenage abortion:
• Lack of financial resources to raise a baby
• Mentally and emotionally immature or
unprepared
• Prevent disruption of education and career
• Shame and fear – to hide pregnancy from family
or peers
• Desensitisation from media towards abortion –
film, TV shows, etc