THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ABORTION ON TEENAGERS
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PRITA SIMBOLON
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ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, l would like to thank to the Almighty Jesus Christ for the blessing and mercy,
so that I can live with the people that l love, and give me a precious knowledge,
especially from the time l started to study in English Diploma Study Program, Faculty of
Letters, North Sumatera University until complete writing this paper.
By this Chance, l would like to express my sincere gratitude to the people who are living
arround me and give me things which support me in my daily life, as follows,
• Prof. Syaifuddin, M.A. Ph.D. as the Dean of the Faculty of Latters.
• Dra. Syahyar Hanum, DPEE the Head of English Diploma Program.
• Drs. Muhammad Syafii Siregar, M.A. as the supervisor who has guided me in
writing this paper with him patience, time and friendly cooperation.
• Dra. Roma Ayuni A. Lubis, M.A. as the reader of this paper, who has spent her
time for reading my paper.
• My beloved parents Mr. P. Simbolon and Mrs. B. Hutagaol, who gave me
support, care, and great love in my life. I do love you dad and mom. I promise to
be your good daughter.
• My beloved sisters and brother, Marta. Juwita, Gratiana, and Sarmedi, thank you
• Special thanks for my very special someone Andy Wijanarko immanuel, thanks
for your strong and deepest affection, your support, suggestion and olso critizes.
• My beloved all of friends who help me in arranging this paper especially Dewi
Charlina, Delya Tri Sofiana, and Juli satriani. For their supports and sharing of the
good and bad time during studying in the Faculty of Latters, University of North
Sumatera.
May God bless them all. Amin
Finally, I hope this paper will be a wortwhile contribution to the readers and I olso
receive any reconstructive critism to develop this paper.
Medan, 18 April 2010
The writer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.3 Objective of the study………. ……...2
I.4 Significance of Writing………... ……...2
3.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS
OF ABORTION ON TEENAGERS
3.1 The Casual Factors of Abortion on Teenagers………14
3.2 The Negative Effects of Abortion on Teenagers………….15
3.3 The Time at Which an Abortion is usually done………....21
3.4 The Process of Abortion………...21
4.
CONCLUTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
1.
INTRODUCTION
Background of Study
Issue of abortion at teenager frequently disturbs government, parents, teachers,
and the experts. The abortion is a behavior that is encouraged by the passion of abortion,
either with the opposite sex or with the same sex.
Abortion is a term which is used to show pregnancy ceasing or miscarriage or
throw of the embryo deliberately before the right time. In the recent days, the problem of
abortion in Indonesia is still being discussed because in the country, the case of abortion
increases every year. It as proven by the report from television and mass media.
Therefore, we should know what the casual factors the of abortion which occur on the
teenagers are.
Based on the explation above, the writer wants to describe about teenagers. A
teenager is a period that is very sensitive with troubles. Troubles that can make them
trapped into the abortion. Besides that, the writer also describes the casual factor and the
1.2 Scope of the Study
In writing this paper, the writer has limited the scope of study in order to make it
easier for the readers to understand. Here, the writer has limited the topic on definition
teenagers, and the casual factors and the negative effects of abortion on teenagers in
Indonesia.
1.3 Objective of the Study
By writing this paper, the writer wants to know the effects of abortion on teenagers
in Indonesia. This simple paper will be easy to understand. Through this paper the writer
hopes there is no misunderstanding between parents and their teenagers.
1.4 Significance of the Writing
By writing this paper, the writer will get much knowledge of teenagers especially
about the characteristics of teenagers and the risk or the effects of abortion on them.
Besides that, the information provided in this paper could increase the reader’s
knowledge about abortion in order to make the readers know further about the risks of
them. So, the writing of this paper is perhaps one way to decrease the percentage of
2. SHORT EXPLANATION ABOUT TEENAGERS, AND
ABORTION
2.1 The Definition of Teenager
Who is a teenager? Usually people say that teenager is period of transition
between childhood and adult hood, or teens time. If a person shows certain behavior such
as hard to be controlled, easy to be stimulated and etc it is the sign of teenager. But to
define teenager is not simple, the problem is, we cannot stop by only defining that
teenager is hard, we must start with a definition about teenager itself. There are several
definitions of teenager.
2.1.1 Teenager according to the Law
In Indonesia itself teenager concept is not known in a portion of law that occurs.
Indonesia law only knows children and adult, although the limit of that is given
differently. In relation to this law, it seems only law of marriage that knows the teenager
concept although it is not being opened. Minimal age to get married according to the law
is 16 years for women and 19 years for man (article 7 of the law number 1/1974 about
marriage). Because the age between 16-19 years until 21 years old can be the same as the
2.1.2 Teenager for Society in Indonesia
To define the teenager from a point of view of society in Indonesia is as difficult
as determining the definition of teenager in general. The problem is because in Indonesia
consists of various ethnic groups, traditions and social levels of economy and education.
Despite of our general guidance we can limit the age between 11-24 years old and has not
married yet, for teenager in Indonesia with judgments as follows:
The age of 11 years old is an age where in general sexual signs start appearing (physical
criterion)
In Indonesia, the age of 11 years old has been assumed as an adult, according to tradition
and religion. Society does not treat them as a child anymore (social criterion). In book of
Angel saksis, the term of youth gives a new meaning. It means a changing period
between teen ages to adult.
2.1.3 Teenager according to Physical Development
In medical science and other related sciences, those teenagers are known as those
who are undergoing a physical development phase where the human organs get mature.
The word “growing up into maturity, but especially sociopsychology maturity”,
especially the socio-psychological marurity.
In 1974, WHO gave definition about teenager which is more conceptual. WHO
defines teenager based on three criteria, they are biological, psychological, and
social-economic. The definition sounds completely as follows:
Teenager is a period where:
1. An individual who is developing from the first time he/she shows his/her
secondary sexual characteristics until he/she reaches sexual maturity.
2. An individual who is experiencing psychological development and identification
pattern from childhood to adult.
3. There is a change from social-economic dependence to full of autonomous
condition. (Muang man, 1980. Page: 9)
Next, WHO states a more concrete definition about the teenager. WHO divides
teenager into two parts, they are: pre puberty is period from 10-14 years old, and
post puberty is from 15-20 years old.
2.1.5 Teenager according to the Development Phase
In general, the groupings of teenager based on the phases are as follows:
12-14 years is called pre teenager (pre puberty)
15-17 years is called teenager (puberty)
The term “teenager” is still used for “youth’ whose age is between 18 and 24 years old. It
shows that they are still on changing phase from the teenager world to adult world.
2.2 The Characteristics of Teenager
Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. In this period,
the teenager undergoes many changes such as his/she body, personality, intelligence, and
their role inside or outside the neighborhood. Their body looks like an adults, but they
cannot be considered as adults. Their experience about adult world is not enough.
Therefore, we should know the characteristics of teenager. There are some
characteristics, they are:
1. Physical development
Physical condition changes quickly, it is faster than childhood and adulthood. To
balance the fast development, teenagers need good nutrition (they need much more to eat
and sleep). In this case, sometimes parents do not want to understand and to get angry if
their children eat and sleep too much. Teenager’s physical development can be seen
obviously from legs and arms, muscles of the body growth, so that he/she looks tall, but
his/she head still resembles a child’s.
Many teenagers have problems with their skin, especially on faces. Owing to
often exaggerated but for some it can result in the low self esteem and becoming
reserved, if their real appearance is far from their ideal picture of themselves.
2. Sexual Organ Development
Sexual organs development sometimes causes trouble such as fights, suicide, and
the others. The characteristics of sexual development on boys are; the production of
sperm, the testes and scrotum begin to increase in size, pubic hair begins to appear. They
get menarche or on set of menstruation almost always after the peak rate of growth in
height has occurred, and related quite closely to body weight, initial appearance of
downy(non-pigmented pubic hair), the increase in size of uterus and vagina and pubic
hair begins to appear. If the sexual development occurs early or late, it can cause troubles
for them.
3. Anxiety
Anxiety is not quite a condition that dominates teenagers. They have much
curiosity which can not be always compiled with. In one hand, they want to look for
experience, because it can increase and attract their knowledge in their social intercourse.
Besides that, they feel that they are not able to do everything yet. They want to know all
reactions or solutions to find experience and knowledge from the sources directly. Finally
they are only dominated by anxiety that cause their desire unexpressed.
4. Conflict
Conflicts which occur in themselves also cause anxiety for themself or the others.
Commonly conflict can become a dispute or conflict of opinions and views between
teenagers and their parents. Then, this conflict may cause a desire to flee from their
parents. But the desire to flee contrasted with the desire to get safe condition in their
house. They do not dare to take the risks because they have left the safe condition around
their family. In addition, the desire to flee is absolutely not followed by the ability to
stand alone, without getting help anymore from their family especially in the matter of
finance.
5. Curiosity about Many Things
In this phase they want to know many things through the efforts that they do in
some fields. They want to know what adults are doing. For example, boys try to smoke
secretly and start to try the sexual intercourse before marriage. They pretend to prove
what adult can do, it can also be done by them. Girls begin to make up their face with
new cosmetics. Even though, schools have forbidden the use of cosmetic or make up in
school neighborhood , there are still many girl students who curious of that and want to
by someone to take drugs, marijuana , alcohol or the others. Finally they get great
misfortune because they do not distribute their curiosity for useful things.
6. Desire to explore adolescence life more broadly
Not only the teenager had close environment (their family) which they want to
investigate even the larger environment. The desire to explore and to investigate can be
distributed well by the useful things. For instance, they can make an invention or modify
furniture such as chairs, radio or other electronic equipments. Besides that, they can make
wooden house equipments in their spare time, so there would be no useless activities or
things.
7. Imagination and fantasy
Imagination and fantasy on boys refers to about prestige and career. Then on girls
it refers to their feeling. It is because they sometimes feel sad and happy. Imagination or
fantasy can be positive as an effort to be creative. Most of their creativities and
experiments are done with their fantasy without needing much money. It just needs
positive creativity. The positive imagination or fantasy gives them new idea and makes
something useful for themselves and the others. In brief, there are seven characteristics of
8. Relation with Parents
As it was told, a teenager feels grown up and his relations with parents change.
He refuses to obey demands that earlier he did, he wants to have less control and more
independence, and he wants to be equal.
But it is not always easy for parents to change the relations, because they are used
too much control and coordination, and because they do not see the reasons to change
something (a teenager is still a student and still dependant on them). Besides, teenagers
often do not show any proof of more mature behavior it is very impotant if parents
choose the democratic style of relations. At this age parents should give more freedom
and independence, less control. Teen years are very important period for children to learn
norms of social behavior and adults should help them with it.
The time of communication should increase. Parents should choose such a style of
relations in which they can be as older and wiser friends, not to command but explain and
guide. Relations should be cooperation based on respect of each other and where parents
serve as example. Teeenagers should not only be given more independence and rights but
more dut ies.
If there is no good contact and understanding between parents and teenagers, it
will result in constant conflicts. This, in this turn, can have bad consequences for a
teenager they will go to the street in search of people who wiil? Them and become a
victim of drug sallers.
2.3 Understanding of Abortion
Abortion is a term which is used to show pregnancy ceasing or miscarriage or
throw of the embryo deliberately before the right time.
Abortion is divided into two parts:
1. Spontaneous abortion which occurs without planning.
It can be caused by weak pregnancy, lack of immunity because of over activities,
the wrong eating pattern and poison. About 25% of all pregnancies result in
miscarriages, women older than 35 or younger than 17 years old a couples who
have difficulty in achieving pregnancy, and women who have had at least two
miscarriages occur during the first (first three months or 12 weeks of pregnancy).
Some cases of miscarriages happen even before a woman realize that she has
aborted.
Besides that, there are five kinds of spontaneous abortion in biomedical nomenclature,
they are:
a. Miens abortion (threatened), where a pregnancy is threatened to undergo abortion.
In this condition there is vagina hemorrhage, but the embryo is still a live, and the
uterus is still closed.
b. Insipient abortion (continuing), when a pregnancy fails, and it indicated by
c. Incomplete abortion which comes out because of half the conception result,
usually the uterus is opened.
d. Complete abortion comes out because of all the conception result, so the uterus is
closed again.
e. Missed abortion, when the embryo dies and usually there is no bleeding.
2. Induced Abortion
Induced abortion is an abortion which is done deliberately. It means that a
pregnant woman deliberates to do miscarriage by her or by other help because she does
3. The Negative Effects of Abortion on Teenagers
3.1 The Factors of Abortion on Teenagers
In the recent days the problem of abortion in Indonesia is still being discussed. It
is proven by the report from television and mass media. Therefore, we should know what
the casual factors of abortion which occur on teenagers. There are at least five casual
factors of abortion on teenagers, they are:
1. Less attention from their parents. It causes teenagers to do sex before marriage
easily. The frequency of doing the sex before marriage finally make the girls
pregnant, in a condition where they are not ready to built a family and to become
parents so they decide to do abortion as their last choice.
2. Raping on teenagers of course has effect for their future. Raping frequently
becomes a factor of abortion.
3. The policy of prohibition for students in primary schools, junior high schools, and
senior high schools to get married may motivate abortion practice. A student who
is pregnant will be dropped out of her school and will be prohibited to continue
4. Unexpected Pregnancy. Most of the casual factors of unexpected pregnancy are
caused by free sex. A woman who has experienced unexpected pregnancy feels
uncomfortable in her life. Her pregnancy is considered as a burden in her life.
Finally, she chooses abortion as the best way to escape from the burden.
5. Feeling of Guilt. Women may feel guilty and depressing because of the negative
view of society to her because of her illegal pregnancy.
In brief, from the explation above, abortion done by teenagers are caused by some
factors. Most of abortion practices are done illegally, and they make women’s
death rate increase every year.
3.2 The Negative Effects of Abortion on Teenagers
The problem of abortion is still being discussed. The discussion about this
problem has begun since years ago and has become the world routine discussion in every
conference. It is caused by the absence of regulation to the manage abortion clearly. On
the other hand, there are many people who disagree with the abortion. The reasons are
abortion has broken the norms and religion and non medical reason, abortion is strong
forbidden. Illegal abortion causes the increase of death risk because lack of medical
facilities, even most of illegal abortions are done by traditional way that may increase the
The WHO’s report states that every year unsafe abortion occurs about 20 million
cases. Whereas journal perempuan. Com-Jakarta states that there are bout two millions
of women in Indonesia do abortion every year. From 2 million of women there are
around 900 women doing unsafe or illegal abortion. Meanwhile for abortion all over the
world noted that there are 46 million abortion cases done illegally. This illegal abortion is
performed by doctors, midwives, and etc. It is dangerous because the helpers are not
qualified and have no good skill, it is done in unhygienic places, no medical instrument
and the method or procedure of abortion cannot be medically guaranteed. Those facts
reported by Atashendrartini Habsjah, a researcher from Institute of Women Health in
the seminar ‘She Does Not Want Her Pregnancy ‘ held by Mitra Inti Institute in Jakarta
Hilton Hotel ( Wednesday, August 11, 2004 ). As a result, there are some risks or effects
of legal and illegal abortion action.
In “ Facts of Life “ a book written by Bryan Clowes, there are some effects which
are caused by legal abortion process. They are:
a. Being infected due to the careless and low ability in doing the abortion process.
b. Premature birth for the next pregnancy.
c. The biggest effect of abortion is physichological trauma which is suffered by
women. It can make them frightened to be pregnant again.
d. There is evidence that abortion is associated with a decrease in both emotional
and physical health. For some women these negative emotions may be very
strong, and can appear within days or after many years. This psychological
• Eating disordes
• Relationship problems
• Guilt
• Depression
• Flashbacks of abortion
• Suicidal thoughts
• Sexual dysfunction
• Alcohol and drug abuse
While for illegal abortion or without medical help WHO concludes that the risk is
100-500 times higher than legal abortion. The effects of illegal abortion are as follows:
1. It can cause uterine perforation.
Between 2 to 3% of all abortion patiens may suffer performation of their uterus,
yet most of these injuries will remain undiagnosed and untreated unless laporoscopic
visualization is performed. Such an examination may be useful when beginning an
abortion malpractice suit. The risk of uterine perforation is increased for women who
have previously given birth and for those who receive general anesthesia and may
eventually evolue into problems, which require a hysterectomy, which itself may result in
2. It can cause placenta previa which will case the embryo deformity
Abotion increases the risk of placenta previa in the next pregnancies (a life
threatening condition for both the mother and her wanted pregnancy) by seven to fifteen
folds. Abnormal development of the placenta due to uterine damage increases the risk of
fetal malformation, perinatal death, and excessive bleeding during labor.
3. It can cause cervical, ovarian, and liver cancer
Women with one abortion relative risk of cervical cancer, compared to
non-aborted women, and women with two or more abortion face a 4.92 relative risk. Similar
elevated risks of ovarian and liver cancer have also been linked to single and multiple
abortions. These increased cancer rates for post-aborted women are apparently linked to
the unnatural disruption of the hormonal changes which accompany pregnancy and
untreated cervical damage.
4. It can cause Anesthesia
Complications from general anesthesia used during abortion surgery may result in
convulsions, heart attack, and extreme cases, death. It also increases the risk of other
serious complications by two and a half time.
5. It can cause Immediate Complications
Approximately 10% of women undergoing elective abortion will suffer
immediate complations, of which approximately one fitfth (2%) are considered life
an abortion are: infection, convulsions, hermorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic
shock. The most common “minor” complications include: infection, bleeding, fever,
second degree burns, chronic abdominal pain, vomiting, gastro-intestinal disturbances,
and Rh sensitization.
6. It can cause Increased Risk for Contributing Health Risk Factor
Abortion is significaantly linked to behavioral changes such as promiscuity,
smoking, drug, abuse, and eating disorders which all contribute to increased risk of health
problems for excamples, promiscuity and abortion are each linked to increased rates of
PID and ectopic pregnancies. Which contributes most is unclear, but apportionment may
be irrelevant if the promiscurity itself a reaction to post-abortion trauma or loss of self
esteem.
7. It can cause Breast Cancer
Medical experts are still researching and debating the linkage between abortion
and breast cancer. Here are some important facts:
a. Carrying your first pregnancy to full term gives protection against cancer.
Choosing abortion causes loss of that protection.
b. A number of reliable studies have concluded that there may be a link between
abortion and the later development of breast cancer.
A 1994 study in the joulnal of the National Cancer Institude found; “Among women who
had been pregnant at least one, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experience an
8. Even it can cause the death.
The process of abortion not only has high risk from medical and physical side, but
it has a strong effect towards mental condition of the woman. As well this indication is
known in physichological science as “post abortion syndrome”. And it is written in
“physichological reaction reported after abortion published in the post abortion review”
The Time at Which an Abortion is usually done
3.3 The Time at Which an Abortion is usually done
The safest time to do abortion is in the first three month pregnancy (about 13
weeks of pregnancy). Abortion which is done at the second three month often because
complication and future effect in.
3.4 The Process of Abortion
Abortion is usually done by a doctor. It can be done when the pregnancy is five abortion
procedures.
1. Manual Vacum Aspiration: up to 7 weeks after last menstrual period (LMP)
This surgical abortion is done early in the pregnancy up until 7 weeks after the
women’s last menstrual period. Along, thin tube is inserted into the uterus. Alarge
syringe is attached to the tube and the embryo is suctioned out.
This is the most common surgical abortion procedure. Because the baby is larger,
the doctor must first stretch open the cervix using metal rods. Opening the cervix
may be painful, so local or general anesthesia is typically needed. After the servix
is stretched open, the doctor inserts a hard plastic tube into the uterus, and then
connects this tube to a suction machine. The suction pulls the fetus’body apart and
out of the uterus. The doctor may also use a loop-shaped knife called a curette to
scrape the fetus and fetal parts out of the uterus. (The doctor may refer to the fetus
and fetal parts as the “products of conception”).
3. Dilation and Evacuation (D&E): between 13 to 24 weeks after LMP
This surgical abortion is done during the second trimester of pregnancy. At this
point in pregnancy, the fetus is too large to be broken up by suction alone and will
not pass through the suction tubing. In this procedure, the cervix must be opened
wider than in a first timester abortion. This is done by inserting numerous thin
rods made of seaweed a day or two before the abortion. Once the cervix is
stretched open the doctor pulls out the fetal parts with forceps. The fetus’skull is
crushed to ease remoral. A sharp tool (called a curette) is olso used to scrape out
the contents of the uterus, removing any remaining tissue.
4. Dilation and Extraction (D&X): from 20 weeks after LMP to full-term
These procedures typically take place over three days, use local anesthesia, and
are associeted with a medication that stops the heart and causes the fetus to die.
laminaria. On the third day, the amniotic sac is burst and drained. The remainder
of the procedure is similar to the D&E procedure described earlier.
5. RU486, Mifepristone (Abortion Pill) within 4 to 7 weeks after LMP
This drug is only approved for use in women up to the 49th day after their last
menstrual period. The procedure usually requires three office visits. On the first
visit, the woman is given pills to cause the death of the embryo. Two days later, if
the abortion has not occurred, she is given a second drug which causes cramps to
expel the embryo. The last visit is to determine if the procedure has been
completed. RU486 will not work in the case of an ectopic pregnancy. This is a
potentially life-threatening condition in which the embryo lodges outside the
uterus, usually in the fallopian tube. If an ectopic pregnancy is not diagnosed
early, the tube may burst, causing internal bleeding and in some cases, the death
of the women.
Besides doctor, abortion is usually done by a midwife. She gives concoction of medicine
such as nostrum to a mother to be and massages the stomach to take the embryo
forcefully. It is very dangerous, because the massage does not always give a good result
and possibility to bring the impact for the embryo such as physical defect and strong
4.
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusions
From the description above, the writer can draw some conclusions as follows:
1. Teenager period is a changing age from childhood to adulthood or from puberty
to adulthood usually it is starting from 14 years old on boys and 12 years old on
girls.
2. Uncontrolled sexual behavior on teenagers can cause some troubls such as free
sex (sex before marriage) and abortion of pregnancy.
3. The casual factors of abortion are less attention from their parents, raping on
teenagers of course has effect for their future, unexpected pregnancy, feeling of
guilt.
4. Abortion has some effects on teenagers both physical and mental for excample,
depression, relationship problem, and guild, flashbacks of abortion, suicidal
thoughts, and sexual dysfuction. Abortion also carries the risk of significant
complication such as bleeding, infection, and damage to organ. In extreme cases it
may lead to death.
5. Usually abortion is done by married and not married women. Abortion can be
4.2 Suggestions
Based on the analyses above, the writer can propose some suggestions for the parents, the
teenagers, and the readers, as follows:
1. To understand teenagers, we should know their characteristics and the changes what happen on them both physically and mentally and change of sexsual behavior.
2. As parents, you should give right information about sex and abortion to your children. Do not think that sex and abortion are something taboo to be discussed. So that they know the effects if they are doing sex before right time and the risk abortion.
3. Respect the different opinion and invite her to discussing openly. There is nobady who will be respected by the teenagers but wise parents who can be friend.
4. In a condition where there are many abortion cases, education about reproduction health to teeagers should be given soon.
5. Parents, government or the teenager themselves have to realized and make effort to understand the values in society. So that the friction of values which happen in society does not only become the responsibility of one party, but also the responsibility of all.
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