SoftBonds
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ORIGINAL: SoftBonds Well, you didn't address the birth defect baby, but I think we have a workable compromise. Given how far apart we often are politically, I suspect that compromise would fly with 80% of the US population. Of course, there are a lot of people who make a lot of money off of arguing the issue, and a lot of folks use it for votes, so we will never see an intelligent compromise like that...sigh. I have to admit that I have a problem with the birth defect thing. To my mind, it gets dangerously close to eugenics and I have a huge problem with eugenics. Peace and comfort, Michael I agree with that too. It would be really tough to draw the line, and would probably be another big kerflufle, although at least we would not be holding so many lives hostage on the result. I do think that on that you have to give some credit to parents, and let them choose for themselves. A defect that we might consider minor, such as down syndrome, might still be too much for a poor single mother to handle, while another family with more resources might choose to have a child with no arms or legs and love and care for him/her. Note, I am absolutely not going to agree with sex choice abortions, etc. That said, I think my family has more right to talk about this than most pro-life folks. My sister is adopted, a refuge from China's "one-child," policy. Her adoption (at 12 or 13, we are not completely sure what her age was because of the circumstances of her transfer to the orphanage) meant one less abortion in China. How many pro-life folks can say that?
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