I don't know. I like to hope I would do the right thing in the case of a severe, painful and debilitating condition. For a condition where the child wouldn't suffer agony for the very short time it was alive...it's more grey area. I don't know. Probably not. If the kid had Downs, Idk that I would feel ok with aborting the child for my own reasons. But I can't say I wouldn't do it if the situation arose - it would depend on too many other external factors.
I don't particularly want children anymore, but if we did accidentally get pregnant, despite our best efforts, then neither of us really want to abort our own child - though we would never make judgement on someone else making a different decision in the same situation.
I generally think I would abort a Down’s baby.Although there is a (smaller) spectrum with Down Syndrome. Some can live by themselves but normally require a lot of supervision.
However, in a more severe case, say profound Microcephaly I’d abort. If a child can’t think or speak for themselves, suffer from mental illness, can’t sleep, have Cerebal Palsy, etc., there’s no quality of life.
Cerebral palsy is also a vast spectrum of physical and/or intellectual disability. I briefly babysat for a family with a little girl who had moderate to severe intellectual and physical disabilities due to her cerebral palsy. Then you see people like the guy who played Walter Jr on Breaking Bad. Some physical, presentably no intellectual (I don't know the guy personally , but as far as I can see from a layman's point of view, he has no intellectual difficulties. I could be wrong).
I generally don't think it's my business why a woman aborts. As far as I'm concerned, "I don't want to be pregnant" is the only reason she needs.
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I don't know. I like to hope I would do the right thing in the case of a severe, painful and debilitating condition. For a condition where the child wouldn't suffer agony for the very short time it was alive...it's more grey area. I don't know. Probably not. If the kid had Downs, Idk that I would feel ok with aborting the child for my own reasons. But I can't say I wouldn't do it if the situation arose - it would depend on too many other external factors.
I don't particularly want children anymore, but if we did accidentally get pregnant, despite our best efforts, then neither of us really want to abort our own child - though we would never make judgement on someone else making a different decision in the same situation.
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I generally think I would abort a Down’s baby.Although there is a (smaller) spectrum with Down Syndrome. Some can live by themselves but normally require a lot of supervision.
However, in a more severe case, say profound Microcephaly I’d abort. If a child can’t think or speak for themselves, suffer from mental illness, can’t sleep, have Cerebal Palsy, etc., there’s no quality of life.
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Cerebral palsy is also a vast spectrum of physical and/or intellectual disability. I briefly babysat for a family with a little girl who had moderate to severe intellectual and physical disabilities due to her cerebral palsy. Then you see people like the guy who played Walter Jr on Breaking Bad. Some physical, presentably no intellectual (I don't know the guy personally , but as far as I can see from a layman's point of view, he has no intellectual difficulties. I could be wrong).
I generally don't think it's my business why a woman aborts. As far as I'm concerned, "I don't want to be pregnant" is the only reason she needs.