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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Finally, I would like to propose two scenarios. Woman A gets pregnant at age 18, accidentally, but her religion forbids abortion. She drops out of school and raises a child whom she resents. Woman B gets pregnant at age 18, but realizes that she is in no position to raise a child. She aborts it and waits until she's thirty to raise a child in a loving environment.
Which child is better off?
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well, i read an artical about an old form of abortion where they used to stick a sharp object in the womb, then just scramble the baby, and pull out the pieces. as it so happens, one particular baby managed to dodge and lose just an arm, so as the doctor pulls out the pieces he pulls out an arm and... SUPRISE... live baby. the doctor has now not aborted the fetus, he has delivered it, and to kill it at this point would consitute murder of the first degree. thus, doc bandages the babies severed arm and woman puts baby up for addoption. 15 years later, baby has grown into an attractive teenage girl (with a minor blemish of lacking one arm) who has never met her real mom (yeah, i wouldnt want my kid to know me either, after trying to abort them and accidently just choping their arm off). asked by a reporter if she was glad that the abortion doctor had failed to kill her, she said that every day is a gift that she appreciates and even without an arm and without a mother she wouldnt wish to have missed out on life.
so, which child is better off? the child who dies without a chance to ever get to experience anything in life? or the child who gets to live? well, i dont think theres anyone out there who doesnt have SOME joy in their life, so child A will get some good times and some bad times, just like everyone else in this world. child B will be too dead to get a chance to experience anything, much less joy. you tell me which is better off...