Sultana

I find myself uncharacteristically agreeing with Analog's observations here. I would not have attributed a pro-life attitude to this board, although I can't say as the topic of abortion has come up a lot. So abortion is OK as long as the woman isn't acting out of what is in your (general "your", here) opinion, selfish motivations?

I would liked to have seen more on the father's perspective. Who knows, it's *entirely* possible she wrote more in that vein, but for space constraints or whatever reason, the editor cut it out.

Yes, I agree she should have been more responsible about unprotected sex, but she didn't seem to want to prevent pregnancy at all, she just wasn't prepared for the extraordinarily miniscule chance of triplets. Of course, if it ran in her family she should have realized there was that chance. I wonder what she would have done with only twins?

As a side note, I don't really understand the "abortion is ok if the pregnancy or birth threatens the mother's life" idea. So life isn't life if it's dangerous to preserve it? Is it OK to let a person in a burning building die because it's very risky to others try to save them? I know that's not a great analogy, but work with me here.

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