Well this is getting into the realm of personal ethics and religion so we shouldn't argue about it. Let's clarify why this is not worth arguing about before it becomes a needless debate.
On one side, you can say that we live in a world where everyone has choices... and the price for that is that other's choices can harm us. You don't want to risk crashing into a family and killing innocent people do you? If your answer is "I'd never drink and drive" then can you vouch for the rest of the population or should I take all their alcohol, barring you? Even though I believe in accountability and I do think that if someone risked a baby intentionally, while being afraid to have one, they have erred and -should- suck it up. Some people pay big for some seemingly small mistakes - but they have the RIGHT to make them... and deal with the results. It's fair when you realize what you sacrifice when you take choices away from others.
On the flip-side, we can't see the future, and deciding if a child would be better off dead is as bad as assigning their gender for them. Just ask the unhappy kids who were "fixed" at birth with ambiguous genitalia. Now I think that if I were going to be born badly damaged by fetal alcohol syndrome, I'd rather be dead. On the other hand, I wasn't and I'm damn grateful for all the screaming arguments my grandmother engaged in with my mom that saved me from being nothing more than rotting flotsam in a hospital drain-pipe.
But if we made women carry unwanted children to term, we'd have more orphans than China, and a country of people raised by spiteful parents... wreaking havoc on the world with their emotional baggage... and yet, when a sperm and egg stand alone as incomplete strands of DNA, just jumbled bits of the parent, and come together they form a single-celled Human, who is scientifically and ethically HUMAN from that point forward. Depending on the God you believe in or your own personal code of ethics what a person does with that life could be a grievous sin, or eliminating it could be for the better of the gene-pool of our species by ensuring that competent people are the ones who reproduce.
It's nobody's right to decide right or wrong for another person. That's why the world's in it's current state, bad or good, so I'll share MY peeve with y'all. I am peeved by negligent idiots who's crappy choices hurt their children and fellow Human-kind. ...'Cause idiots have the right to live and harm others with their bad choices, and they have the right to try to rectify it before they die. (EDIT: I hope it was clear to all that that was mock name-calling, everyone makes mistakes.)
On one side, you can say that we live in a world where everyone has choices... and the price for that is that other's choices can harm us. You don't want to risk crashing into a family and killing innocent people do you? If your answer is "I'd never drink and drive" then can you vouch for the rest of the population or should I take all their alcohol, barring you? Even though I believe in accountability and I do think that if someone risked a baby intentionally, while being afraid to have one, they have erred and -should- suck it up. Some people pay big for some seemingly small mistakes - but they have the RIGHT to make them... and deal with the results. It's fair when you realize what you sacrifice when you take choices away from others.
On the flip-side, we can't see the future, and deciding if a child would be better off dead is as bad as assigning their gender for them. Just ask the unhappy kids who were "fixed" at birth with ambiguous genitalia. Now I think that if I were going to be born badly damaged by fetal alcohol syndrome, I'd rather be dead. On the other hand, I wasn't and I'm damn grateful for all the screaming arguments my grandmother engaged in with my mom that saved me from being nothing more than rotting flotsam in a hospital drain-pipe.
But if we made women carry unwanted children to term, we'd have more orphans than China, and a country of people raised by spiteful parents... wreaking havoc on the world with their emotional baggage... and yet, when a sperm and egg stand alone as incomplete strands of DNA, just jumbled bits of the parent, and come together they form a single-celled Human, who is scientifically and ethically HUMAN from that point forward. Depending on the God you believe in or your own personal code of ethics what a person does with that life could be a grievous sin, or eliminating it could be for the better of the gene-pool of our species by ensuring that competent people are the ones who reproduce.
It's nobody's right to decide right or wrong for another person. That's why the world's in it's current state, bad or good, so I'll share MY peeve with y'all. I am peeved by negligent idiots who's crappy choices hurt their children and fellow Human-kind. ...'Cause idiots have the right to live and harm others with their bad choices, and they have the right to try to rectify it before they die. (EDIT: I hope it was clear to all that that was mock name-calling, everyone makes mistakes.)