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The baby has a soul. Who is to say that this life is worthless? Isn't the premise that every person is a child of God Christ's entire teaching in a nutshell? Jesus' message taught that life is not a commodity based on a worthwhile outcome or a person who must have some measurable economic worth as WE see it.

I see your point, however, we must try to attack the root cause, drug addiction and permissive sex in a culture out of control, and not "sacrifice" the result of this behavior which is an innocent child of God. If we follow the logic of worthiness, every person now in a wheel chair following a swimming pool accident with a fracture at C-5 has the same argument to look forward to in due course!

This alternative is sheer expediency and if you use that evil premise, we are back at eugenics and the Nazi era.

"The baby has a soul. Who is to say that this life is worthless?"

Actually I said I believe that every life is priceless. However, if we are going to win this battle we must not ignore the cost. You are correct about attacking the root causes. For now, the cost is beyond comprehension. If a severely premature baby with underdeveloped lungs is born to a cocaine addicted mother and survives 18 months the cost of care can exceed a million dollars. This is not a rare situation. And at the end of that 18 months he likely dies. He will never not need expensive medical care. I do not have an answer.

It takes a miracle for one of these children to survive and be normal. For an individual parent in this situation it would not be inappropriate to recognize that God can do miracles. Pray for one and limit the care to include nourishment and treatment of infection. However, as someone has stated. the majority of these cases occur in situations where there are no reasonable parents.