-143 If you knew that your unborn child would have crippling disabilities, you still would not get an abortion, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

People with disabilities have just as much a right to life as people without disabilities. Sometimes, people with disabilities will even value life more than people without them.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I completely agree but raising a disabled child id very difficult so I can see why some people would do it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

OP said "crippling disabilities". Sometimes these include disabilities that make the child's life hell, and in many cases, unable to communicate with others.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

How do we know how hellish their life is? I'm not saying it isn't (or that it is). We really don't know and shouldn't make their life our decision. Oh and I just want to say that I'm not hating on abortion in this comment. It's just that you can't really decide if their life is going to be hell. It's not fair.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've watched a few documentaries on people with aspergers, and a lot of them say they wish they didn't have it. Imagine something really severe. I don't know if they would mind being disabled, but my guess would be they'd rather not. Especially when it's things like having to eat through a feeding tube in your belly button because your chin and tongue are too big to eat, or needing assistance walking and having someone wipe the drool off your face and basically never being able to live independently. (both those examples came from kids I use to go to school with)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Doctors can tell sometimes what is going to be wrong with the baby, so there's a chance you might know.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My aunt gave birth to triplets 3 months early, 2 boys and 1 girl. She went into the pregnancy knowing that it was going to be risky. One of the boys died within a couple of weeks. The girl is fine. The other boy has severe cerebral palsy. He cannot sit up on his own, walk, talk, or eat. His eyesight and hearing are poor. His disability is so severe, in fact, that we cannot even know if he is mentally disabled. Now he is 15 years old. His parents have said multiple times that he has brought so much joy into their lives that they wouldn't change a thing if they could go back, despite the frequent hospital visits and lifestyle changes they have had to make. He, too, isn't miserable. He plays with toys that make noise all day and can communicate just a little bit by smiling and shaking his head. He goes to school every day and is mainstreamed for some classes. He is an incredible boy and it kills me to know that some people think he would have been better off to never have been born.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I would put it up for adoption if I couldn't provide adequate care for it but otherwise why shouldn't it deserve to live? Wouldn't that be awfully selfish of me to abort a fetus because I don't want to "deal" with it? If you disagree please enlighten me with your grand logic.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's not necessarily that one might "not want to deal with it." It's the fact that having a child with a crippling disability is going to cost a hell of a lot more money than the already huge amount it costs to raise a child normally. Some people can barely afford to care for a child, much less one with needs like that. Yes, there's the option of adoption, but that goes for all pregnancies-not just ones with the possibly of health complications for the baby. We're not arguing abortion in general here.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Because disabled babies are very unlikely to be adopted and it would live a hellish life in foster care.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I wouldn't want my child to live with a horrible disease.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If I knew that, my child would always want a normal life. I don't want my child to suffer all his life because of a stupid disability.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't think I could really say until I was actually put in that position.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I agree with the person above me. I don't really know how I'd answer, since I'm not in that type of predicament. But I feel that God would of made me pregnant for a reason, and I shouldn't abort the baby. God has a plan for the baby, and for me too to raise it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Maybe the plan for the baby is for it to be aborted.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Could be. I guess I'll have to cross that bridge if and when I come to it. Hopefully all my babies are healthy though

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's a great point and something I would consider if I was in that situation.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Isn't God supposed to control all your actions so an abortion would be part of his plan as well?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

No because we have free will.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But then God isn't all powerful

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Some people believe that God purposely gave us our free will.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

true but with then what's fate?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's up for you to decide. I personally believe that God does have great plans for all of us, but they won't start happening to us until we devote ourselfs to him and say "okay, I'll do what you want me to because I know that it's worth it".

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's not how I understood it but everyone inturprets these things differently

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Exactly.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You may think you're doing them a favor, but it's actually extremely selfish. Instead of trying to provide them with the best life possible, you don't even give them a chance. Some of the best people in the world have horrible disabilities.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What if the child was a mistake and wasn't supposed to be born anyway? Should the parents have to spend the rest of their life taking care of this "crippling disability" just because not doing so would be selfish? That's ridiculous. If the parents didn't want him/her, the child is undoubtedly going to have a less than perfect life. Should they have to do it anyway?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i don't want a lot of things in my life. but our biggest difficulties make us who were are today.. not trying to sound corny or anything. but we have to take responsibilities for our mistakes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

So one small mistake determines whether or not someone has a future?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

the baby should have a chance at a future.. it has not made any mistakes yet.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I meant the parents. Just because they mess up and now there's a baby on the way, does that mean that they shouldn't get a chance to live for themselves?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Deal with the consequences of their actions. Lol how selfish to look for your future and not the childs.. And it's not like having a kid will ruin their entire future. Sure they will miss out on things, but that part of taking the responsibility.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What if its like a 19 year old? She most likely won't be able to go to college because she would be taking care of a disabled child. She will spend her whole life caring for something that wasn't supposed to happen. She deserves to be a bit selfish.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

"something that wasn't supposed to happen". again, nothing always goes as planned. if you have sex, you should be ready to deal with the consequences.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

So no one should have a second chance after they mess up?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Like some people said above, everyone with a disability have a right to live as someone with no disability, but I would, personally, take a few months to do my best to take care of the child, and see how it goes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't think I would be able to handle it...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was supposed to have crippling disabilities. Apparently abortion was illegal in the area my mother was in. I'm fine, though.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was supposed to have down syndrome, but I'm fine. I don't think it would've mattered if my mother chose to abort me or not because I haven't really made a difference in this world. I wouldn't blame my mother for aborting me, because I'd do the same thing.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

At this juncture, I feel like it's not about the fetus; it's about the mother. So people who voted no aren't thinking that the fetus has less of a right to live because it is disabled... it's not about them... abortion is about the situation of the parents and whether or not they are able to care for the potential child. Severe disablement could make a difficult situation even harder.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It said "crippling disabilities", thus meaning being disabled to cripple :P All jokes aside, it would be better to just abort the baby than make it suffer depression, being teased or whatever when it grows up.

by Anonymous 11 years ago