I don’t know that I could.do that. I don’t know that I could hold a suffering,dying baby, thinking I could have prevented that. It is a horrible choice to have to make and I don’t know that I could view a decision to a abort a baby to prevent unnecessary suffering the same as waking up and deciding I didn’t want to be pregnant anymore.
I know the outcome is the same... a dead baby ... but I guess the struggle for me is that I don’t think I am convinced that it is ok to put someone thru pain and suffering before dying when the pain and suffering part of it could be shortened. This is one of the few things in my life that I am not cut & dried, black & white one.
Forgive me if I don’t reply any more today. It is almost 1AM and I have an early morning. But I appreciate the discussion and will check back tomorrow... I want to ask about the ‘make a choice between mother or baby’ dilemma.
Thank you.
Babies feel pain in the womb. So a baby who is aborted experiences pain, this is no doubt about this. So abortion is never good for a baby; and since death is inevitable for everyone at some point, abortion is always for the convenience of the mother or father.
I may tell my own story later. I know from very bitter personal experience that choosing abortion imparts pain that doesn’t go away, even after decades.
This choice is not horrible and you are free to make it. The mother is at liberty, in fact, it is her obligation, to give the baby, dying and suffering or otherwise, all the care that she can afford and the medical science offers. She is not at liberty to kill him, again, regardless of any anguish she might be experiencing.