So true. One of the insidious aspects of the Culture of Death is that it's so easy to get drawn from using contraception and sterilization to thinking that any inconvenient pregnancy can be disposed of, because it's so small, it isn't as important as us, it doesn't have feelings or a sense of loss, etc. From there it is a downward logical spiral to saying that the life of any person whose life doesn't seem valuable and wonderful to us can permissibly be put to sleep, and it's not long before you have euthanasia of sick babies, and then euthanasia of Grandma when she becomes too annoying.
Funny how Paul VI saw this logical sequence so many years ago and warned us.
I was thinking that, too. Pope Paul VI saw it all ... from the option to contracept, to the “right to contraception,” to the “duty” to have contracepted, posted backward once some disruption in life occurred. People actually think the young girl in this story should never have been born, because her father is dying while she’s young. Just eliminating her life, from conception to natural death, as if she had no value.
That’s “choice.” If your child has Down Syndrome, you failed in your duty to contracept or abort. If your child is a pain when he’s 17, you failed in your duty to keep him from annoying others. If your child is paralyzed in an accident when he’s 30, you failed in your duty to preemptively eliminate him before he became a burden on the public.
Everyone’s life is subject to post-hoc revisionism, and most of us, by this reasoning, should never have been conceived. Our parents failed in their duty to be sterilized in advance of us.