[glorygirl]

Telling quote:

"You get questionable news and you make the abortion decision," said Adrienne Asch, a Wellesley bioethicist who argues that prenatal screening and selective abortion have become too routine. "Anything else you do is viewed as stupid by your educated friends, by your doctors, by your genetic counsel- ors."

[Hamilton2]

I imagine it was this way when Auschwitz and other crimes were committed. Like a frog in warm water, we are drowning in rationalizations and we don't have the courage to acknowledge it.

[LibertyGirl77]

I saw a lot of FReepers blasting this guy last week, but this seems like a really thoughtful article, especially for one as liberal as Bill Keller. I see the beginnings of a change of heart--believers should pray for this man.

[Frank Grimes]

The technology that informs you your future baby is mysteriously endangered also makes him real, a boy-like creature swimming in utero. (And this was before the new, hyper-realistic sonography that, judging by General Electric's TV commercials, portrays your fetus as a mesmerizing little 3-D merman.)

Sounds to me like his BABY could be talking to this guy and calling him daddy and he would still refuse to acknowledge that it was a person in there, not a "fetus" or "boy-like creature".

The last thing Emma was aware of before surrendering to the anesthetic was Charlie kicking madly.

This part really tears me up. My real name is Charlie, and when I was in my Mommys tummy, they said I was having complications and may not make it out alive (something about the umbilical cord). Thank God my parents were not the type to have an abortion, or even the type to be easily persuaded. Seems like more obstetricians are not hesitating to bring up abortion at the first instant something wrong may be happening.

[AppyPappy]

we decided to end it.

Translation: Kill it.

Imagine if a man who murdered his wife said "It wasn't working so I decided to end the marriage"

[GodsLittleOne]

The technology that informs you your future baby is mysteriously endangered also makes him real, a boy-like creature swimming in utero

Ahem! The writer here seems to imply that his son (poor, sweet innocent Charlie) was in fact, human.

With that in mind...

If Charlie was indeed a human, then "ending his life" is in actuality murder. Even according to the writer himself. Murder, by definition is "the unlawful killing of one human by another".

Oh, but it is not the government's right to intervene because it is your "choice", one might say? Ah, but it's not about choice, it's about MURDER. And it is the government's duty to prevent a murder at all costs.

Conclusion: we have laws about murder, and since abortion and murder are one in the same, then there should be laws against abortion as well!