Monday, December 14, 2020

Abortion in the interests of the fetus?

 Well, if a fetus is aborted, it goes to heaven. If it is not aborted, it might live long enough to commit a damnable sin. 

But that isn't the argument that is discussed here.  The child's earthly life is likely to be miserable, so would it be better to abort it rather than condemn it to a short life of suffering. 

1 comment:

bmiller said...

The child's earthly life is likely to be miserable, so would it be better to abort it rather than condemn it to a short life of suffering.

Abortions performed after 20 weeks gestation, when not done by induction of labor (which leads to fetal death due to prematurity), are most commonly performed by dilation and evacuation (D & E) procedures.[1] These particularly gruesome surgical techniques involve crushing, dismemberment and removal of a fetal body from a woman’s uterus, mere weeks before, or even after, the fetus reaches a developmental age of potential viability outside the mother.[2] In some cases, especially when the fetus is past the stage of viability, the abortion may involve administration of a lethal injection into the fetal heart in utero to ensure that the fetus is not pulled out alive or with the ability to survive.

So the reasoning is that the child will certainly be disabled and may suffer seizures of unknown severity. So it's better to cause it certain pain and death.

I can understand the burden placed on a parent with a disabled child. I had a brother and sister that died in infancy from heart defects. My parents wouldn't have thought of killing them during the brief time they were alive. To bad we live in a culture of death now.

A different perspective