I apologize that I couldn't be asked to read every post in this very long thread, so if I restate anything that's been said already, I'm sorry.
I'm pro-choice. And I wouldn't blame a mother for thinking it was the right choice to abort in a case like this.
But I think it's despicable to call this little girl a creature and say she has no chance at a good life. I mean, Makedde, I realize that you apologized for the choice of words, but I find it almost impossible to overlook what you said just based on a quick apology. I don't believe your words were carelessly chosen... I don't think a person says something that extreme unless they mean it. I'd like to hear how you justify even daring to type something like that out in the first place. I could see if it slipped out in conversation, but this is an internet forum... you have time to edit yourself. How can you justify calling a human child with a sever deformity a creature and say that it can't even be called a baby because of her appearance alone?
And I have to add, if you are really pro-choice, why? I mean you seem more pro-abortion than pro-choice to me. And yes, there IS a huge difference. Pro-choice means that one believes a woman has a choice while a fetus is still within her body to terminate the pregnancy if she so choses because it is her body. But you seem to be proposing that there are certain cases in which it is morally wrong for a woman not to abort, which in my opinion is much less pro-choice and much more pro-abortion. Ending the life of a fetus is a serious thing. This is not to say I equate it with murder, but to say that there are situations in which a woman must abort just seems cold and heartless to me. It completely contradicts the spirit of the entire pro-choice movement in my opinion. The decision of the mother is sovereign. No one can calculate, as you clearly stated yourself, what Juliana's life will be like in the future, or how she will feel about it. Let the mother's decision be hers.
Last edited by IsGuavaADonut?; 07-05-2008 at 02:46 PM.
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