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1. Even if this story is true....
2. and even if that truth also implied moral permission to abort...

3. Then this anecdote would still represent only 0.000000001 percent of conception/birth/abortion cases.

“1. Even if this story is true....
2. and even if that truth also implied moral permission to abort...

3. Then this anecdote would still represent only 0.000000001 percent of conception/birth/abortion cases.”

WRT #3, it is probably a higher percentage of abortion cases than that - it isn’t only one in a billion. But your point is made, which is that we shouldn’t be passing laws to affect the vast majority of people because of exceptionally rare and extreme cases.

For every one of these heart-breaking cases (and, make no mistake, that is what this is), there are 100 or 1,000 cases of someone who just couldn’t be bothered to take a pill, or make sure that their partner put on a rubber, and they aborted out of sheer convenience. That is clearly morally reprehensible on the mother’s part.

I also think that people commenting about the woman who was the object of this thread should take a step back and think on it a little bit...mainly because she actually decided to, and DID, bring her baby to term, rather than abort her as her doctor clearly was inferring that she should. IOW, she did the right thing...and now, in these (thankfully) very rare circumstances, she has had second thoughts because of the trauma that she went through, and what her daughter went through. Given how rare this set of circumstances is (most babies with this condition are spontaneously aborted or stillborn), I’d say that it is rather presumptuous of anyone who hasn’t gone through anything similar to judge her. Let’s leave that for God, shall we?

one billionth of one percent?