Why does just the deformity matter? What if its a girl and you want a boy or vice versa? What if you find out that the child will be gay or missing a finger?

It is a very slippery slope when you try to determine which people are the right people to kill.

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ABoyNamedSue - Speaking of Crestwoods posts - And then there'll be some link to some page, written in hindu or something, talking about sherpas and A&W root beer, and how George Bush is to blame for some Jewish neo-nazi death camp, run by Elvis Presley, on the far side of the moon that's been busted for killing kittens or something

Are you flogging kidding me? next Einstein? The freaking thing doesn't have a brain, bum! It isn't aesthetic or cosmetic. You blind, ideological twit, look at the freaking thing!

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If you were that horribly disfigured would you regret being born? To put it another way, if tomorrow you were in a horrible accident and your face ended up like that would you kill yourself or keep living? I don’t think having someone not exist is in their best interest even at that point - although if they decide it for themselves its a different issue. There is such a point, comatose and in constant pain would be at or past it, but it isn’t simply being ugly. For best perspective consider what you would put in your living will as it makes the person being considered a primary concern rather than a problem to be solved and moved past (which gives a bias to killing and beign done with).

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Because claiming to be justice is a long-standing and well observed tradition.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~ Ernest Gaines

I greatly appreciate your ad hominem attack. It brings a smile to my face to see such an ancient tradition still in practice. You are, in fact, correct. I know nothing of the situation; rather, I hit keys randomly and by some act of God (and spellcheck) readable sentences emerge. Since they've beaten the odds to get here perhaps you could address them?

In response to Makedde:
I'm not heated, that's how I often comment - a listing of thoughts that I used to arrive at my conclusion.

In clarification, I too believe the child should be the focus (if not the entirety) of the decision. And there is certainly a point where life can be a curse. However I'm concerned that many would rationalize that a child would be better off not being born before it became true. That girl will endure never ending taunts from her peers. Home schooling seems promising. As long as she looks like that her life will be of a significantly lower quality. But I do not think that her life won't be worth living, or that it isn't at least worth letting her choose for herself. I also think the pain of the surgery is likely preferable to the stigma of that image, so if life with the look is worth it, life with surgery to fix it is even more worth it.

In hindsight to my prior argument, there is a major flaw: if I had such a face tomorrow morning I would have the mental fortitude of an adult to endure the stares and ridicule and the pain of the surgery. Big difference. But I doubt that in 20 years she'll look back and wish she'd never been born.

To conclude that you would give up is a very acceptable answer, it allows one to stop pondering life in such a state, but is it really true? Assuming that the disfigurement was cosmetic one would only suffer a loss in socialization - one would still be able to interact with family and interact socially through anonymous means (you could still talk to us, that alone is worth living for, right? ). It would cause a major depression, to be sure, but it doesn't necessarily require a suicide. Is social interaction all that makes life living?

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But, you really truly don't know what you are talking about. My statement was a description of the situation. I could make it more ad hominem if you want me to.

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It may be that the 19yrs old daughter of her austrian father/grandfather who as the austrian police spokesman said is in hospital due to an "illness caused by incest"

What if this means she is pregnant by her grandfather/father, which means if this child is born, he would be the childs father,grandfather and great granfather I think,a sort of tripple whammy.

Would you abort or not

No I wouldn't.

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