I want to start off by saying that i think that woman should ultimately be able to have an abortion, but I am not looking for a fight, but just answers. This question is mainly for pro-life people.
If you or your girlfriend was pregnant with a severely retarded baby, would you still bring it into the world? The same goes for any other horrible diseases and ailments. Would you still choose to bring the baby into the world? My psychology teacher asked this to pro-life teens, but they seemed stumped.
2007-08-28 11:54:37 · 13 answers · asked by babsa_90 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Not kill it because of an inconvenience, but kill the baby because it will never live a human life.
2007-08-28 12:11:56 · update #1
Before you say that it has a right to live. Think about how bringing it into the world means that your not giving it a choice, just like you wouldnt if you were to abort its life. It can go either way, thats why i say its YOUR choice on its life, you have to choose no life or a cursed life.
2007-08-28 14:20:58 · update #2
That is a very thought provoking question. I am definitely pro-life I will say- I am not a fanatic about it, you won't see me marching against abortions or anything like that.
If I got pregnant and I found out the baby was severely retarded or had some horrible disease I would still have the baby. The first reason being that I have faith in God and God's plan, which I know isn't overly popular with some but it is who I am. Also I have known a lot of people who have been told their child should be aborted because they are retarded or have some illness that will kill them. All of these children have been born with out problems- The child who was suppose to be terribly retarded is only mildly and the other babies were able to receive treatment and are now fine. I know that it doesn't always work out that way, I use to work at a pregnancy center and a lady had twins and one did die due to a disease and she says to this day that aborting it would have been the worst thing she could have done.
As for whose choice it is- I would have to say it is God's choice- not mine. I just don't like abortion, I never have even when I was an atheist- it just seems wrong to me that the only people that believe in abortion have already been born- seems to be a bit oppressive. On a side note I would never call any form of life a cursed life.
2007-08-29 08:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by like the ocean needs the waves 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who am i to choose if another human being should enter this world or not. There is always a chance that the two couples' DNA may produce a child with a decease or other ailment. A responsible person knows this and accepts what happens in life and deals with it.
I can find plenty of families who look upon the life of a retarded child or handicapped person as a blessing not a curse. This seems like a selfish perspective to take on life. Anytime there are hard times and when certain circumstances don't go your way - what are you going to do? Kill those off as well?
2007-08-28 19:03:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
About 10 years ago I volunteered for a few weeks in an orphanage in Calcutta where most of the children were pretty severely mentally and/or physically handicapped. They were also incredibly poor, living on charity in a poverty-stricken part of the world. Until then, I'd always thought that having a handicapped child of my own would be just dreadful. After spending time with these children, though, I realized that they were valuable human beings with their own joys and sorrows who deserved to be sheltered and cared for just as much as any other child. At the time, I still considered myself pro-choice, but I made up my mind then that I would never abort a baby of my own for any reason.
Now I have two children of my own and have become more and more pro-life in my views. My kids are healthy, but who knows if they might become handicapped, mentally or physically, through a disease or an accident? Part of being a parent is being willing to accept that your children may not be "perfect" --whatever that means to you-- and to love them and look after them no matter what.
2007-08-30 17:28:35 · answer #3 · answered by Busymom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say no I would not suggest she have an abortion.
medical tests have been known to be wrong and even if they were right and the child would be born with a severe dissability, it would still be part me and part her.
The only time I would even think about abortion is if the mother's life is in serious danger (tubal pregnancy or some other medical condition with the mom that would kill her or result in her death if she tried to carry to term.
Even then it would be a tough decision.
My cousin was diagnosed with a malignant tumor while she was pregnant and chose to carry the child to term or as close as she could before any treatment and it ended up costing her her life as the tumor burst while they were delivering her baby caeserian and spread the cancer throughout her body so much faster.
She COULD have chosen to have an abortion or started treatments for the cancer which would have caused a still birth or miscarriage but she chose the baby's life over hers.
2007-08-28 19:28:48 · answer #4 · answered by Will Y 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say that life is life no matter what the form so I could not condone the murder of the child. jesusfreak makes a valid point it is no different than assisted suicide. And as a side note don't think its funny that abortion isn't murder but if you kill a pregnant woman and the baby dies its double homicide?
2007-08-30 11:51:55 · answer #5 · answered by j d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I would keep it because whatever the baby came out looking like or actinbg like is how God made him/her and that is what God wanted me to have... I'm not trying to sound all religious, but it's true in my opinion, which may or may not matter to you. It was not the baby's fault that it was born with a handicap or ailment... every life is worth living... Take Hellen Keller... she was born blind and became deaf ( or something like that... sorry if it's not true!) and look at how famous she became!
2007-08-28 21:30:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, I'm pro-choice, although I'm anti-abortion. I would have to say, that I would NOT abort the child due to religous convictions. I believe that every soul is on earth to experience and learn, therefore, if this soul wants to learn to live this kind of a life I feel I should provide that life.
Very, very very tough question.
2007-08-28 19:12:27 · answer #7 · answered by Fancy That 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I would. It would be hard and demanding, but very rewarding at the same time. Life is precious, even if the person is retarded or sickly, etc. Besides, I have seen God miraculously heal people of conditions and diseases before (Downs Syndrome, MS, the blind, the deaf, the paralyzed, etc.). But, even if He did not heal, then the life is still precious.
2007-08-28 19:09:37 · answer #8 · answered by apostolicscott 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a difficult question. I guess I would have to know how serious it was, but seeing how in this example is severe, I would have an abortion. It's not unusual for people like that to die in their early 20's, and have major medical bills needing to be paid. They say God has a purpose for everyone in life, but he did give us the ability to abort pregnancy, so...
2007-08-28 19:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by Sara For Life 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No life or cursed life is not the real question it is whether or not you can live with committing murder on your continence or not. Murder is murder, so is assisted suicide, isn't your argument the same thing as assisted suicide? Wait, no it isn't, the sick baby doesn't get to say "I don't want to live."
2007-08-29 16:32:37 · answer #10 · answered by jesusfreakjav 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋