November 28, 2005
Why Is It So Important That the Child Die?
This is what I've never understood: women who not only want the child out of their bodies, but insist that something has gone terribly awry if he or she goes on to live.
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Of course, this is not the kind of situation I dealt with when I had my abortion, which occurred at 10-12 weeks. But when it comes to late-term abortions, it remains difficult to understand why these babies cannot simply be adopted as "premies" and allowed to live.
Charmaine tells the story of one woman who slipped through the cracks: The Girl Who Lived.
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it's about the guilt. A woman doesn't have to feel guilty if the baby's dead.
Posted by: caltechgirl at November 28, 2005 02:10 PM (/vgMZ)
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Somehow that makes less sense. I mean I'm not arguing that it isn't the perception, but logically wouldn't it engender less guilt if the baby is alive and placed with an adoptive family than if it were successfully killed?
Or would that lead to the uncomfortable realization that he/she was human after all, and not a glob of protoplasm?
Posted by: Desert Cat at November 28, 2005 02:22 PM (B2X7i)
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In many cases, the appeal of abortion has to do with the notion that if the fetus is whisked away by doctors, the whole thing didn't really happen at all.
Posted by: Attila Girl at November 28, 2005 02:44 PM (JZqY7)
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