The Retarded Satirist

The strides in modern medicine have truly separated us from animals. We can provide limbs to our limbless, remove cancers from our diseased and everything in between. Yet, we hold ourselves back in some areas owing to our ethno-religious mores and moralities which on broad basis are beneficial but seem frighteningly disastrous on certain individual events. It is with this realization, we set out to codify our laws which broadly subscribe to our moralities while taking into account the specific requirements of special circumstances. The debate over medical termination of pregnancies is one such case where the pro-life and pro-choice camps have lobbied hard to sustain their belief systems even to the extent of radical and even perverse arguments giving lawmakers all over the world the arduous task of finding a suitable balance between the two. Balance can crudely be defined as the position that is equally not equitably acceptable to both camps while requiring both camps to forego some o...