The opinion that one should be pro-life with exception to rape/incest/health reasons/etc. almost makes less sense to me than being pro-abortion. By that logic, one should go around euthanizing the elderly and children who receive inadequate care simply because they’re ‘burdens’ on a family economy. I’d hazard a guess that many of these people who want abortion ‘exceptions’ are indifferent towards the coming death panels Obamacare is going to be mandating.
Yes, I’m really not so hep on having abortions for any reason. It’s not the baby’s fault how it came to be.
What gets me is the people who abort a child because prenatal tests show the baby has "defects."
Anyone who chooses to take the risk of begetting a child, should be prepared to accept that child, no matter what illness or "defects" the child may have.
Who knows, even a child who is born "perfect" might someday be involved in an accident that results in disability. Say, a brain injury. Does that make it ok to kill that born child, now that he is no longer "perfect"?
(Actually I have witnessed a case where the elitist parents did exactly that.)
Also astonishing to me is the number of people who happily say "I don't care if our new baby will be a boy or a girl -- as long as it's healthy."
As long as it's healthy?
To me a baby is a gift from God, to be greeted with love, whether healthy or not.