I would never abort them even if I knew that.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

So you'd rather have your potential child live in completely pain and misery for it's pitiful short existence rather than be merciful? That's like refusing to put an animal down even though you can see it's in obvious pain. Way to be a good future parent.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

There are countless stories of people who were told that their child would be born deformed, or wouldn't survive very long, or would be handicapped in some way, but yet they decided to keep the baby, and the baby was born perfectly normal. Prenatal imaging and genetics testing doesn't give 100% accurate results. There's always some doubt.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Way to go, for every time that happens also, theres also the opposite happening, people who thought their child would be born without any disorders, ended up giving birth to a kid with a disorder

by Anonymous 14 years ago

But who ever said that a disabled child is necessarily a bad thing? I know so many adults whose lives were changed for the better because they had a disabled child.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

And what about the child that had to live its life disabled?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I don't know much about other kids, but those with Down Syndrome are some of the happiest people I've ever met.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Alright, good response, I'll take it. I was thinking you meant physically disabled people. And yeah, I know a mentally handicapped guy. He's always so perky.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I can only guess, but I think this is supposed to be a hypothetical situation where you somehow have 100% certainty.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Possibly.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Probably.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My current best friend was told she would be mentally retarded before she was born. Her mom chose to keep her. Now she is a perfectly healthy 15 year old girl who is in AP classes and pulling straight A's, is taking Dance and Voice lessons, and is an amazing person.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

She GMH?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

she does. and she is not mentally disabled at all. she is even smarter than my dad, who runs 3 businesses and is a grad of Duke Uni.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

tim tebow!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Any life's better then none.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I wouldn't abort simply because you don't know that your child wont be perfect. Doctors and science are not always correct.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(Tiraestris):No one said your kid wouldnt be born fine, say, if you have AIDS and are having a child the chances of it living past about 18 are very slim, knowing you have an expiration date, is worse than not having lived. also the child might just grow up in a shitty environment, say with a lot of drugs and gang violence

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think it would be better to not know life than to know it for being barren and desolate.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

How do you know that it is going to be short and miserable? There's always a chance that science is wrong.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Although there's a slim chance, it's far more likely that the science is right and the infant will suffer for a while and then die. I wouldn't put a child through that just for a tiny percent chance of living, and possibly living with a debilitating illness.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ABORTION! <3

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Obvious troll.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think OP is trying to say that if you KNEW, for sure, that they would be miserable. Not just saying that doctors said it would be handicapped or something, but you knew the child would have an awful life somehow. You wouldn't make it suffer through that, would you?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'd rather abort the NOT-YET-A-CHILD than to let it lead such a short, horrible life. Especially if you were a teenager and found out if you were pregnant, and your only means of taking care of it were your parents? And yes, there's always a CHANCE that science is wrong, but then there's the more PROBABLE chance that it's not. You think you're doing the right thing when maybe you're making an innocent child's life a living hell, all for the sake of your "moral standards" And then the cells could be put to good use, saving other's lives, maybe another child's life or your own grandfather's. Why wouldn't you take away a desolate life from an unborn, undeveloped fetus and giving someone else a second chance? In the end, I guess you have to pick between two lives, an unfeeling, unborn fetus, or a living, thinking, feeling human being. I don't know about you, but I would choose the latter.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Not-yet-a-child? They have a heartbeat, they can feel and hear things. If that's not a living child then I don't know what is.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Some of the most sickest people are the nicest ones. They don't care if they're going to die, they treasure every single day and take it one day at a time. If you knew that, wouldn't you want to have it and try to make it have the happiest life possible and prove them wrong?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

What would your long term motivation be, just knowing you were dying soon, and would have substantially less years than others

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Some people have faith. it does not have to be Christian or any religion at all, just faith. Faith in life itself, or in goodness, maybe just in happiness or themselves. There's always a bright side, even if it seems dim.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You're throwing the word "life" out like an old banana peel. People who agree with this post must not understand how much value a life has. The child wouldn't know any part of life outside the womb if any of the people who agree are the parents. THAT's sad.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My teacher was going to have a kid and the doctor said that she would be retarded, so he told them to get an abortion. She wasn't retarded and she's a normal kid.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Guys, the OP isn't talking about regular birth defects such as down syndrome or the lack of a limb - people with disabilities such as those are most often capable of living to adulthood and living a fairly happy life under the right conditions. The OP is referring to severe birth defects such as Anencephaly - a condition in which the baby is born without vital parts of its brain, and other conditions that will cause the child to die within a few hours after it is born, and usually be in constant pain/discomfort while it is alive.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I was told that the child I was carrying had tested positive for spinabifida. My husband and I had to make a choice. Terminate the child we desperately wanted, or to try and give it the best life possible. We choose the latter, and today I have a beautiful normal 7 year old boy. Who I ready to love and cherish no matter how he was born. Sometimes the greatest gifts you get in life are the ones you don't get to keep as long as you would like.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

PRO CHOICE!

by Anonymous 14 years ago