atechnie

Few things Pro-Lifers say about abortion make sense to me anymore. I simply can't understand the double standard that Pro-Lifers show - and then refuse to even acknowledge them as double standards. "Even supposing that fetuses are not children and have no rights, allowing women to have an abortion just because she's going to have a disabled baby is discrimination, and should NOT be allowed." :banghead:

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Bumble Bee Tuna

Of course- because any reason, including "I feel like it", is acceptable for abortion. We might consider it wrong to abort based on the gender, but one can get an abortion for any reason at all so it doesn't matter. And that's the way we would want it- do we really want a daughter being born to someone who doesn't want a daughter?

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atechnie

Yes. You can't say on one hand that fetuses are not human beings with rights and then say that it's discrimination if a mother aborts a fetus because she wants a boy instead of a girl.

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Octavia

I'm don't know that "I feel like it" is a good enough reason for abortion - but that's getting into a whole other area.

It does seem foolish to try and legislate against abortion for a disabled foetus, while allowing abortions for normal ones. But as I said in a post somewhere above this one - even if this gets beyond draft form, no country is obligated to ratify it.

Rhea

According to current law in many places, it is. So *while* it is, this disability clause makes zero sense.

Octavia

For the sake of argument, what about those countries that don't allow abortion according to current law? Should abortion for disability be allowed there? For any disability - or is there a scale, a point in which the law says "this child is too disabled"?

Admittedly I'm wandering off the path of the topic here, but I can't help but wonder where the line is. From a practical sense, I think it should be up to the parents - but if it were me? Hypothetically, if I were pregnant with a baby that tests said was deaf, would I abort? No - probably not. If the baby had Down's Syndrome - I would abort, no question. If the baby were blind - I don't know.

I suppose the cut-off point is what the prospective parent feels they can cope with; but that is different for everybody. Parents who have Down Syndrome children who love them and treasure them might think no DS child should be aborted, for example.