Posted on 05/08/2007 11:20:22 AM PDT by Scotswife
The abortion debate brought home He and his wife have always been pro-choice; recently, they were forced to make the Choice. By Dan Neil May 6, 2007
MY WIFE AND I just had an abortion. Two, actually. We walked into a doctor's office in downtown Los Angeles with four thriving fetuses — two girls and two boys — and walked out an hour later with just the girls, whom we will name, if we're lucky enough to keep them, Rosalind and Vivian. Rosalind is my mother's name.
We didn't want to. We didn't mean to. We didn't do anything wrong, which is to say, we did everything right. Four years ago, when Tina and I set out on this journey to have children, such a circumstance was unimaginable. And yet there I was, holding her hand, watching the ultrasound as a needle with potassium chloride found its mark, stopping the heart of one male fetus, then the other, hidden in my wife's suffering belly....
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“I pity those poor little girls being raised in that awful environment. I hope the parents change their minds and put them up for adoption to a good and loving home that appreciates them as human beings — not designer babies.”
why would they give up these “wanted” girls when they invested so much money in 3 ivf procedures to have them?
They cannot be held responsible for the fact that the 2 male fetuses - who have more chance of autism - beat the odds and proved to be hardier than embryos from previous attempts.
These people didn’t pay good money for a “risky” pregnancy...heavens no!
This is a business deal and now we make moral life and death decisions based on statistics.
No one should be expected to held personally accountable for their actions when the statistics don’t work in their favor!
Isn’t the utilitarian view of life grand?
Yep. But try telling that to anyone who has felt the "need" for it, as some of our fellow FReepers evidently have. The "logic" they use is the same as that employed by abortion advocates; it boils down to "But I want to!!!"
Allow me to clarify...I think that the people who practice it and the people who employ those who practice it truly believe they are doing the right thing.
That is what makes the process so abominable. It’s deceptiveness. The desire to have a truly good outcome (having a child)...but by a horrible method that, almost certainly, will result in the death of multiple innocent lives.
I won’t stand in judgment of somebody who did it. I really believe that their hearts were in the right place. I believe that their interest in the subject comes from poor catechesis. As a result, I think that they need some more education and contemplation on life and the theology of the body.
I certainly also won’t stand in judgment of a child born via that process.
Somebody needs to pass some judgments someplace. It’s very like illegitimacy. It has now become something people are PROUD of. Why? Because the folks who used to use such terms as “bastard” are now regarded are intolerant reprobates who want to stigmatize innocent children.
OMG. I want to vomit. This is too disgusting for words honestly. Burning in hell for all eternity is too good for these idiots; perhaps a shot to stop their hearts would be a good start, though.
Um..NO they weren't.
I agree.
There is nothing suggesting anyone’s life was in immediate danger, although I’m sure a numbers game was played to justify the “chances of success”.
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