Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Choice Of Life

Ones own or Own ones.

The judiciary had to be used before this too becomes vestigial.
Nikita and Haresh Mehta’s used it well.
And as expected the judge equated MTP with Mercy killing.

This is a point of serious debate.

Mercy Killing is entirely a Medical Issue.
MTP however is not entirely a medical issue, Medical Science is only used for termination.

First is about the utility of law.
Does every thing under the sun have to have a law?
This might not be some trivial issue, but it is bigger than the courts to decide.
Ambit of courts can only be felt to things visible to a society. Physically.

Food unconsumed is fresh, consumed is digested and extract is excreta.
Forms change with stages and processes.
Chemical inside your mouth is Saliva and outside is Spit.

There can’t be a single law for all stages of this process.
There could be food department, health department and finally the local municipality.

Life still inside you is your life; the reason why it is inside you has been your choice. Till it is not visible physically to the society, the choice of its destiny lies with the individual solely.

Process of bringing life is copulation, the organic matter produced is semen or ova, and life’s first stage is at the synthesis. There are a million terminations every day at this stage.
Do we need a law at this stage?

The choice of terminating a life is not an easy one, especially when you are the creator.
A lot has to be left up to the individual and his Dharma to decide on this big issue. Society or its tools are incapable of knowing the intensity of the situation.

Government goes on to decide how many kids you should have, that are by itself an intervention in personal space.
Making individuals incapable of making decisions on their own.
Tools of your elected society members we see in parliament take decisions, as if they have the divine right to do so.

Show them their place.
Mr. Mehta go to the Supreme Court and then to the local quack.

1 comment:

Bounty Hunter said...

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Prenatal development is divided into two primary biological stages. The first is the embryonic stage, which lasts for about two months. At this point, the fetal stage begins. At the beginning of the foetal stage, the risk of miscarriage decreases sharply, all major structures including hands, feet, head, brain, and other organs are present, and they continue to grow and develop. When the fetal stage commences, a fetus is typically about 30 mm (1.2 inches) in length, and the heart can be seen beating via sonograph; the fetus bends the head, and also makes general movements and startles that involve the whole body. Brain stem activity has been detected as early as 54 days after conception, and the first measurable signs of EEG activity occur in the 12th week. Some fingerprint formation occurs from the beginning of the fetal stage.

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MTP is legal.....

the issue here is at what point of time does a fetus have Human Rights.....

if fingerprints form and brain stem activity begins and EEGs start by the 12th week....

is it a fetus or is it a human being.....?

At 24 weeks a fetus can survive outside the womb and grow to adulthood...

The legal debate is over what is the limit in terms of weeks when a fetus acquires the right to it's own life...

After all it didn't choose to be born....

And just as parents act as guardians for children till society judges them capable of taking decisions for themselves...

do we have a responsibility towards a fetus....hmmmm