I don't believe that abortion is the *right* thing to do either, but Dan raises an interesting point. If the only thing these aborted souls have lost is time on the paradise we call Planet Earth, what have they really lost? Pain and suffering, war, poverty, sickness, divorce, etc., etc.???
Cold callous comments like the above greatly grieve my spirit. We just adopted two boys who were the third and fourth children of the same woman. The biological mother of our boys lost all four of her kids because of some poor life choices.
The boys were 7 months old and 5 years old and living completely separate lives one day, yet both became available to us within hours of each other nearly two years ago through events that baffled the agency. The boys bring us great joy in our lives and now we're looking to adopt a girl.
If they were aborted (very possible due to the biological mothers history) what would they have lost? They would have lost their entire lives. We would have lost the joy of knowing, raising and home schooling the boys.
My 6-year-old in the first grade is reading at the third-fourth grade level. He has memorized over 50 Bible verses and a few poems by Robert Frost and others. He has a life. He has parents that love him deeply. He has family and friends. He knows God.
Before he turned two last September, our baby knew all but 2 letters of the alphabet and their sounds, had a vocabulary of over 500 words, could put complex sentences together and count to 14.
Both boys amaze everyone who meets them. What would they have lost? Their lives. Their entire lives and the world would have missed out on two very special boys who just may come up with a cure for a disease that might be taking your own life someday.
Yup. And the natural extension of this statement is to make sure we kill off everyone that has any medical or health problems or, what the heck, let's get everyone to heaven sooner and just kill them all. What have we really lost?