Legalise prostitution & abortion will treat the root?
No doubt decision of some country in legalised prostitution and abortion had result in positive impact of the population health. Incidence of HIV infection, STD, maternity mortality, unsafe abortion decreased successfully. Hence, someone pronounce it as Public Health success. Yet, I choose to define health in a holistic way, an appropriate Public Health view.
WHO says that health is well-being of physical, mental and society, Hippocrates even mentioned that health include the optimum state of spiritual.
By legalised these ethical debating issue, it merely cope with the tip of the physical health problem ice berg, not the root, and not to even mention the ice berg of mental, society and spiritual. In apparent, they won the war, but it's a total defeat I would say. Things would be different if they intervene much earlier, and maybe they do not have to give in.
We need to keep to evaluating the circumstance by predicting the possible negative outcome and be quick enough to deal with the root before the outcome is realized. A case in point is the issue our society facing now, a sudden emerge of suicidal issue, teenage pregnancy, infant killing, which shock the society and many agencies are setting all effort to cope with it.
If we were able to trace the risk factors of these issue and deal with it 10 years back, the outcome can be stop before it happens. The outcome we witnessing now is just the tip of the iceberg, the submerging parts are long existed. Yet, often time the tip of one iceberg had cause so much of our attention and energy that we hardly have time to investigate the submerging part of another iceberg which emerge it's tip in future.
It's sad to visualised a picture where house by house explode into fire, people are strangling to extinguish the fire, it's a great mess, and no one have the capacity nor the availability to deactivate the bomb which is going to explode the next houses.
May we be the bomb disposal expert to stop explosion and at the same time be caring enough for the victims.
WHO says that health is well-being of physical, mental and society, Hippocrates even mentioned that health include the optimum state of spiritual.
By legalised these ethical debating issue, it merely cope with the tip of the physical health problem ice berg, not the root, and not to even mention the ice berg of mental, society and spiritual. In apparent, they won the war, but it's a total defeat I would say. Things would be different if they intervene much earlier, and maybe they do not have to give in.
We need to keep to evaluating the circumstance by predicting the possible negative outcome and be quick enough to deal with the root before the outcome is realized. A case in point is the issue our society facing now, a sudden emerge of suicidal issue, teenage pregnancy, infant killing, which shock the society and many agencies are setting all effort to cope with it.
If we were able to trace the risk factors of these issue and deal with it 10 years back, the outcome can be stop before it happens. The outcome we witnessing now is just the tip of the iceberg, the submerging parts are long existed. Yet, often time the tip of one iceberg had cause so much of our attention and energy that we hardly have time to investigate the submerging part of another iceberg which emerge it's tip in future.
It's sad to visualised a picture where house by house explode into fire, people are strangling to extinguish the fire, it's a great mess, and no one have the capacity nor the availability to deactivate the bomb which is going to explode the next houses.
May we be the bomb disposal expert to stop explosion and at the same time be caring enough for the victims.
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