Aborting a child with birth defects?

[Nicodeamus]

Once you subordinate any particular human life (and its liberty) to utilitarian considerations or to the social good, everyone loses the very basis for claiming any rights against the State or society. That is indistinguishable from the very thing that makes slavery so execrable.

A feotus is as much human as sperm is human.

 

[Arthur]

A feotus is as much human as sperm is human.

Wow. You need to brush up on basic biology.

 

[Nicodeamus]

Wow. You need to brush up on basic biology.

o do enlighten me where I went wrong,

comparing abortion to slavery is like comparing bread to marshmallows.

 

[Arthur]

Sorry, I'm on a phone and can't type out a course in Biology 101.

Of course I know you're not being serious - no-one who operates a browser can be that ignorant.

Try reading up on ovum, sperm, fertilization, conception, etc. Eventually you will come to see that sperms and ova are gametes and not in any way substantively human. However, a human foetus has its own unique DNA, identity, blood group, fingerprints, eye colour, etc. It needs only time and the right conditions (such as air, nutrition, temp, later care, education, love, etc) to continue its natural development for the next 70-100 years. This is not the case with merely sperm or ova.

You can even read it on the internet.

 

[crackersa]

I always try and support the Paul Jungnickel home in Pretoria and that is exactly what happens. You have cases where people with down syndrome have been living in those house for 40+ years and eventually the responsibility of the parents fall onto the normal children. Sure its okay for a parent to say that they will take care of the child, but if they die, then you impose that responsibility on his other siblings or on other people.

My parents aborted a child before they had me, he would have been born without his brain properly connected to his body. At the end of the day I don't see why you should ruin your life if you can prevent it.

really, your parents lives would have been ruined? how the hell would your parents lift be ruined? That's a bit presumptuous! so, basically what you are saying cause your parents or yourself can't read the future, that they are murders.