This is very true! And this is, I think, where a lot of the (SANE, VALID) arguments stem from. You really can't know what the "right" choice will be, because you can't predict a miracle. And because the child has no voice of its own, you have to be the one to decide--are you going to risk the child having a lot of pain and potentially dying very young, or not?
I don't think either choice is inherently selfish, nor do I think pain is something that should ALWAYS be avoided, because sometimes you do need to go through it to grow, to live.
But that's the thing: it's not absolute, and neither option is necessarily more "right," if such a thing can even be quantified. Sometimes aborting the child is the most humane thing you can do, for both the mother and the child; and sometimes, even if you know it's humane, you just can't bring yourself to do it. No one knows how it could turn out or how it will turn out.
That's why they call it pro-choice, not pro-abortion. :)
(And I didn't think you were. You don't strike me as the type to asskiss. XD)
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Date: 2009-06-11 05:05 am (UTC)I don't think either choice is inherently selfish, nor do I think pain is something that should ALWAYS be avoided, because sometimes you do need to go through it to grow, to live.
But that's the thing: it's not absolute, and neither option is necessarily more "right," if such a thing can even be quantified. Sometimes aborting the child is the most humane thing you can do, for both the mother and the child; and sometimes, even if you know it's humane, you just can't bring yourself to do it. No one knows how it could turn out or how it will turn out.
That's why they call it pro-choice, not pro-abortion. :)
(And I didn't think you were. You don't strike me as the type to asskiss. XD)