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Originally Posted by Combwork
Your post makes perfect sense but Whell's doesn't. If you read what I wrote, I was not advocating leaving an early birth newborn baby to die, I was pointing out that to do so is the logical progression of leaving everything to nature but to come back to the question. I guess from your original post that you have strong beliefs, but would you impose them by force of law on everyone? As to snuffing out a life, if pre-natal (sorry about the spelling) tests showed that the fetus if developing to birth would have severe incurable disabilities for the rest of its life, would you accept the potential mother's decision to terminate?
I an NOT in any way disrespecting anyone who has given their heart to looking after their child, no matter what their 'disabilities' are, but I'm putting the question. Given pre-knowledge of incurable disabilities, the kind that mean the child would spend its life having to be cared for by someone else, although this might not be your choice, would you accept that other people have the right to make their choice?
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No. We had such a scenario. We would not then or now in good conscience have made the decision to kill our daughter. It was not even on our radar.
This is an example of the moral relativism I referred to earlier. A scenario such as this is offered in an effort to cloud the application of objective standards of behavior. The other favorite is "Well, what if it was YOUR daughter that was raped and got pregnant....". Some folks, like our politicians, succumb to this, or fear that some others might and taking what might be an " extreme" position might be politically unpopular.
The problem with moral relativism is that is obscures objectivity, and it also attempts to demonize those that might prefer to be guided by objective standards ("who are you to judge me" is a defense mechanism applied by a moral relativist).
A child with a disability has the same right to life as you or I. Such a child is no less valuable to society, in as much as they can return love, bring joy, and teach us a thing or two about our own humanity. To suggest that terminating the pregnancy of a mother whose child may be disabled might be an appropriate choice is simply another avenue to devalue life in such a way that is simply offensive. My daughter, nor anyone else's disabled child, needs to become a tool for the pro-choice crowd to try to create some wiggle room between objective right (the right to life) and objective wrong (pre-meditated murder).