Mary and Mike

I have heard, watched and read many stories where a mother is pregnant with muliple fetus's. They are usually given the option of selective abortion (Kill some so the few has a better chance.)

If this somehow happened to me I would have to say yes to the option. Usually these children are born a pound or less each with serious health issues. I wouldn't want to risk having to raise 5 or 6 children with physical and mental disabilities when I could have had the oppurtunity to have 1 or 2 of them live fully productive lives.

Mary

dangin

No, you see god wanted you to manipulate your fertillity so that he could "bless" you with seven substandard human infants at once.

This is simply one of those things that if you swallow the bible, you'll swallow anything. Faith the biggest delusion that does not require medication or hospitalization.

Mary and Mike

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Originally posted by dangin
No, you see god wanted you to manipulate your fertillity so that he could "bless" you with seven substandard human infants at once.

This is simply one of those things that if you swallow the bible, you'll swallow anything. Faith the biggest delusion that does not require medication or hospitalization.
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I think your right on that point.

I am an atheist, so I think that would be why I would be able to say yes to the option, on the other hand someone who was religious would say, "but god wanted me to have all these babies."

I would ask that person though, why would god want you to raise 5 or 6 disabled children when your whole point of getting pregnant ( And probably using fetility drugs in the process) was to have one healthy child?

But then my next question after that would be, if you couldn't get pregnant naturally, the way god intended, then why would you think god would have wanted you to even have children? Wouldn't you just say, god didn't want us to have children, so we don't need to do anything more?

Mary

christ-on-a-stick

Exaaaaactly!!!

I have had this conversation with people before and it has gotten quite heated (on the other person's end). Turns out people don't like having their glaring inconsistencies pointed out to them, regardless of how politely you might do it.

Another thought I have often had on this topic.... most fundy Xians (Catholics, etc al) believe that abortion is a sin based on the premise that at the moment of conception, a "human life has begun". Nonetheless, many people who hold this belief will turn to in-vitro fertilization and have 7 or 8 fertilized eggs implanted into their wombs - NOT with the intention of having 7 or 8 babies, mind you, but because they fully expect not all of them to "make it". In other words, they are intentionally creating what are in their view multiple human lives that they intend to end, except for a reasonable number.

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abe smith

OUTSIDERS's (eg, religious sects"s, and individual religionists's )
desire and efforts to control, legislate, punish (and all that other stuff) the matter of abortion are & ought to be JUNKED; because ultimately the matter is the private & personal choice of the WOMAN's who's got the conceptus inside her. This FACT also excludes her doctor etc from making the final decision. THAT is hers & hers alone.

brighid

As with any choice to abort, it would be a difficult decision for most women (or couples) to make. I would likely (along with my husband) chose to terminate one or more of the embryos. The physical threat of a singular pregnancy is great, but the physical threat to both the mother and the multiple fetuses seems to increase exponentially with each subsequent embryo and fetus. I personally can’t imagine carrying that many children, which will not be born full term, require special invasive care, will likely incur physical, mental and/or learning disabilities and that will financially devastate most families. All of which can be minimized or avoided with selective abortion.

If a goal of a pregnancy is to produce a healthy child why do things that are known to put the child and mother at increased risk of disease, malformation and possibly death? There are few certainties, and the choice should be none but the woman (and her partner) as fully advised by medical professionals. Either way the choice should never be coerced or obtained under false pretenses.

I would be sad at the loss of unknown potential, but I would be devastated if my children were born with mental, physical, or learning handicaps because I chose to continue down a path that had the vast potential to destroy or harm the fullest potential of those children. I would also know that I made the best choice possible, with the best available information for the good of the child I would have and was fully capable of caring for.

Others may and should have the ability to chose differently, but the validity of their choice to the contrary in no way invalidates the choice to abort.

Brighid