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Originally Posted by Undercover_Man
OK...let's say the mother is a drug addict and/or drinks...or maybe the mother is a prostitute with barely any money and no interest in becoming a mother...or how bout a mother that has a disease that would give her child a huge risk of giving the child a very painful/deadly disease...there are lots of bad scenarios that would give the child a bad begining in life...
Would you want the mother to have the child? If the mother of a drug addict decided to have a child would you want a mother like that to have one? What about a mother with an abusive husband? Would you want to have that mother bring a child into that environment?
What if a mother in that situation said that she'd have the child and give him/her up for addoption? That too is a bad life for a child to go thru...the life of the child before s/he gets parents is not very nice...
Would you want a child to go thru any of these situations? They either grow up with hate and become bad people themselves or they die from the disease that the parents gave them...
I think that there are some situations that it would be in the childs best interest to not be born in the environment s/he would be born in...
- Undercover_Man
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Couldn't that rationale be applied to any child in a bad situation? Why not kill children that are in bad situations after they are born. By your rationale it will spare them a bad life. I don't see the difference between abortion and this, at least in terms of how you are rationalizing it.
From a religious basis, I am against abortion. But, outside of that I really could care less. I'm actually a ZPG proponent, so i'm generally apathetic about abortion (from a secular standpoint). My only problem with abortion (outside of religious reasons) is that it promotes a general lack of dicipline and responsibility. With all the birth control methods, and the amount they are promoted, there really is no logical excuse. Unless a woman is raped, only reckless behavior can result in an unwanted pregnancy. I've always thought that any abortion not the result of rape or saving the life of the mother should come with a tubal ligation.
As for just murder, that is more a legal/societal definition to me. Personally, outside of religious beliefs, there is no innate basis for the sanctity of life. So killing for one reason is just as equal to the next, and none need justification.