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To: Mrs. Don-o
Do you think the infant should be killed?

A fetus with no head or brain? I think that should be up to the parents. My friends had an abortion, even though they are themselves conservative and anti-abortion.

Do you believe that invitro fertilization ought to also be illegal?

92 posted on 03/23/2013 1:26:31 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: stinkerpot65
"My friends had an abortion, even though they are themselves conservative and anti-abortion."

This is a self-contradicting statement. They were certainly in a grievous, pitiable situation, the moreso because they discovered, under difficult circumstances, that they were actually pro-abortion.

Other mothers and fathers, in the same circumstances, decided not to slay the unfortunate child. They are the ones who are actually "anti-abortion."

An anencephalic child will shortly die. If he or she lives but briefly and breathes his last in his mother's arms, it is heartbreaking but it is not a crime. To kill him or her intentionally is something else. It's a denial of the child's humanity, a refusal of parental love and, frankly, homicide.

"Do you believe that in vitro fertilization ought to also be illegal?"

Yes. Thank you for asking. It makes the conceived child, first, a lab experiment and then, a kind of living property in a commercial transaction, subject to culling and disposal if not up to specifications, like a substandard lab rat.

This falls short of the respect which we owe to a human child.

Children have a right to be conceived in the marital embrace and accepted unconditionally. Anything short of that is wrongful from the point of view of the child's own dignity as a person, not a thing.

93 posted on 03/23/2013 1:44:44 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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