[LearsFool]

It IS "just judgment," when two people are in danger of death but you can only effectively save one of them, to save the one you can.

That sort of cold, rational calculation has its place and purpose, and I wouldn't argue otherwise. But is it what we expect from a mother whose own life and that of her child are in the balance?

My question is less about which one the doctor should save, and more about what has happened to women that they would choose their own lives at the expense of their children's. Abortion is only the result of such heartlessness, a mere symptom of the mutilation of women's naturally-tender hearts.

[Mrs. Don-o]

One doesn't have to be cold to be rational. I do think the Lord gave us all both hearts and minds for a purpose. Deliberately choose against the warmth of heart or the power of reason, and you end up with neither: you end up both mean and stupid. Snake-mean and turkey-stupid.

(I am not speaking of you, of anyone here on this forum. Not at all. I have just been thinking about the "image and likeness of God" and how we have all of us --- all of us --- fallen so far short.)

Lord have mercy.