Originally Posted by
Dramatic
What is the point of these stories?
That, using disabilities/rape as an arguement to be pro-choice, for abortion to be acceptable, just isn't necessary.
Regardless of whether i am pro-life or not, abortion will still happen. Abortion will always be legal, and nothing i, or anyone else says, will change that fact.
But the point is - excuses should not be made for an abortion.
If a woman choices to have an abortion, then so be it, but it is cowardly to admit that because the child has been diagnosed with a certain disability that it gives her the right to an abortion.
In regards to "medical abortions", i feel that ectopic pregnancies, in my eyes, is completely different to an abortion. That child will barely survive past 12 weeks, and it becomes a medical emergency if the tube was to explode. Many babies in ectopic pregnancies have already died, therefor it is merely a medical procedure to remove the feotus.
Although it has just been in the papers not so long ago about a woman who went through pregnancy to full term, with an ectopic pregnancy. So, who knows, maybe this is another step in the right direction in regards to medical science?
Hey Laura,
Apologies for cutting short your post in my quote, but makes it a wee bit simpler for me to reply to, this way.
I don't think it is "cowardly" to think disability is a reason for abortion; like yourself, i've seen some incrediably survivals of preemies and preemie/full term babies who have been very ill. But none the less, i've also seen parents choose to deliver their babies early (so technically terminating the pregnancy) because they have such a longing not to see their child suffer. Downs syndrome is misdiagnosed/suspected in pregnancy so often it's rediculous, but there are some conditions which are irrefutable. One mum i know of, her wee baby barely had a heart - the worst her consultant had seen - and in the knowledge that their baby had a very low chance of surviving the first two operations (at birth and days/weeks old), among other reasons, they chose not to allow their baby to suffer any longer. In the cases like that, i see it as parents having the "choice" (is it a choice when you know your child will most likely die, whatever the decision?) to switch off the life support, as it were, in pregnancy, rather than days, weeks, months later in a neo natal unit.