I am really struggling with something about abortion...
I think abortion is wrong. Rape, incest... it is wrong to kill an innocent baby.
But what about the cases of horrifically damaged fetuses? I don’t mean like Trig Palin, I mean fetuses that have no brain or no spine or a rare disease something horrific like that which would mean a painful life and early death. If medical science can show these things... well, I am really caught there. That would mean a woman carrying and delivering a baby to term just to suffer and/or die? How do we deal with that?
It is just something that I struggle with and would appreciate opinions on.
At what point would you euthanize your child?
Children are created by God and EACH ONE is created the way they are for a reason. He knows what He is doing and there is a purpose for all of His creation.
I had a cousin born with severe birth defects 27 years ago. He survived less than four days and his mother held him in her arms as he died. My aunt and uncle have said that they wouldn’t trade those few hours for anything in the world.
There are some on this thread that would prefer to force you at gunpoint and under strict supervision to force you to carry this to full term without regard to what anyone else thinks. They would make that choice for you under penalty of law.
You can't be truly pro life if you don't, don't you know?
Excellent point. Rape is wrong and so is incest. But does that mean that the baby is wrong? What is the baby's status in front of God?
But what about the cases of horrifically damaged fetuses?
My mother was an RN in a GP's office in the days when they did everything. She shared some stories with me. Basically, they did their best to allow the child to be born alive and then evaluated the child at that point. There was one child that she told me about that was born without a brain that they simply held and comforted and fed water for a few hours until she died. She was never alone, not for a single moment. The child was buried in a Catholic cemetary after having received baptism and last rites with as much honour as any priest or bishop.
The children that even looked remotely like they could live at all were taken to the best care that our city could give them. And there were some great success stories that came out of it. My cousin was 1 pound 2 oz at birth and now he is a very successful farmer, for instance. My opinion, for whatever it's worth.