Friday, October 19, 2007
ETHICS
Assalamu'alaikum wbt...
Semakin belajar ethics, semakin membuak-buak kegeraman di dalam hati. Kenapa? Masakan tidak, persoalan asyik berkisar tentang, 'how are we going to deal with this problem?', bukannye 'how are we going to solve this problem?'
Ok ok...maybe ramai yang tak tahu apa itu ethics. So, I'll try my best to explain what ethics is in a layman language. Senang cite, kene bagi kes dulu ok...satu senario:
Abortion...A 16 year-old-girl come to see you in your GP. She is 5 months pregnant and asked you for termination procedure. What should you do at the moment? How would you weigh your arguments before making any decisions?
Ethical questions may arise:
Pro life
Pro-life will put arguments against abortion...such as human has the right to life etc etc...
Pro-choice
Pro-choice will put arguments for abortion...such as the mother has the right to decide whether she wants the baby or not because if the baby is born, the baby may not have good quality of life because the mother will be kicked off from school, thus lack of education...poor job..etc etc..
Obviously we as a muslim has a clear guideline regarding abortion issue because Islam is the way of life..If we stick to Quran and Sunnah, ijtima' and kias, inshaALlah we will not loose our track in any decision that we have to take..(which I am not going to say anything about it now)...
These are roughly the things that are debated in ethical class...
Well, I kind of able to tolerate with this case and euthanasia cases...but the next case that I'm going to share with you is ridiculous (sorry for using that word)
Scenario 2:
A 12-year-old girl come to see you and ask for contraceptive because she wants to have a safe sex with her boyfriend and she asks you not to tell her parents about this...What should you do?
I was like....????
Not all medical ethics are ridiculous..I must say some are useful...such as securing the right to elderly healthcare (which is my SSC topic that I'm working on right now)...It involves rationing and allocation of resources and really, somehow I find it useful if I am going to be the policy maker in the future..
I think, ethics has an element of fiqh al-muwazzanat (fiqh pertimbangan) in it ---> mind you that I am not a 'ustazah' or someone who knows well about this matter...it is MERELY my assumption...but certainly it has gone far to an extreme end to be regarded as fiqh al-muwazzanat...because it is not based on religion (specifically Islam)...but it is based on human logical thinking and moral values which are not being molded in the essence of Islam.
You see, GPs won't have to deal with such situations if the law of Islam is being applied in every single second in every single human life in this entire world...
Hey, hey..you may start thinking that: 'this girl is soooo idealistic.'
But please please please please, think about it. If we don't solve a problem from the root, then these are the things that GPs are going to suffer...to make decisions for problems that we won't see if Islam is regarded as a way of life, if Islamic law is going to take place.
In Islam, no sex before marriage, no alcohol etc...You don't believe that our Creator knows what's the best for us? Let's see this (from medical point of view only..I'm sure there are many social implications regarding these issues..you can think about it yourself):
1) Alternating sexual partners will lead to STDs...cervical cancer...chlamydia infection...tubule obstruction...genital warts...and many more...these are nasty diseases...
2) Alcholism will lead to...cirrhosis....portal hypertension...barrot's eosophagus...vestibulocochlear problem...and many more...these are horrendous problems...
why why why...I don't see why can people deny or never try to understand Islam fully, even we, the muslims ourselves.
Thus, start thinking...May we get closer to our One and Only Creator, ALlah s.w.t...
"Reflect on the work of art and you may attain to the artist"
Wallahua'lam..
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