{"id":15990,"date":"2012-05-04T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=15990"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:37:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:37:12","slug":"convenience-disabilities-reasons-abortion-can-be-ethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/convenience-disabilities-reasons-abortion-can-be-ethical\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenience, disabilities: reasons abortion can be &#8220;ethical&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Safe, legal, and rare &#8211; it&#8217;s the catchphrase that many politicians like to use when they talk about their goals for abortion. But that&#8217;s oftentimes not really what they want. Ardent abortion-backers don&#8217;t care to keep abortion rare, or even safe, considering how they fiercely oppose any measures that would force abortion clinics to keep women properly informed about their pregnancy, or well-regulated as a medical facility. When Live Action&#8217;s own undercover work exposed routine law-breaking occurring at abortion facilities around the country, abortion activists weren&#8217;t angry at the women who were victims of the abortion machine. They were angry at Live Action for exposing the truth.<\/p>\n<p>So safe, legal, and rare? It&#8217;s a catchy little slogan, but let&#8217;s not fool ourselves. Abortion activists want abortion to be not only legal, but commonplace. And there is no reason why abortion should ever be looked down upon, either. It&#8217;s not good enough for it to be legal and common. Everyone has to approve of it, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Showing off this rather demented view is a pro-abortion feminist asking when abortion is the <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/blaghag\/2012\/05\/when-abortion-is-the-more-ethical-choice\">more &#8220;ethical&#8221; choice<\/a>. I struggle to think when killing your baby might be considered ethical, but I expected to see the typical arguments, such as pregnancy after rape or with a terminal illness that would ensure that the baby died soon after birth &#8211; that is, a life-threatening pregnancy for the mother. They were there, but they were accompanied with examples such as these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[I]n cases of extreme disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Trisomy 18, anyone?<\/li>\n<li>With population as high as it is, an ethical case can be made for any abortion. (This is, of course, if the woman wants said abortion.<\/li>\n<li>[O]ne possibility is if you have strong reason to believe you\u2019ll be a terrible parent (you\u2019re an alcoholic, say), and adoption options aren\u2019t practically available.<\/li>\n<li>Mother\u2019s life in danger, child\u2019s life in danger, can\u2019t financially provide for a child, trying to make sure you can support your other children (both financially and emotionally)<\/li>\n<li>In my opinion, any time a woman does not want to go through a pregnancy, forced birth is less ethical than an abortion. That is psychological and physical torture that will likely leave wounds for life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The idea that these examples would not only be considered acceptable reasons to have an abortion, but <em>morally ethical<\/em> choices is sickening.<\/p>\n<p>Aborting someone just because they have a disability? How could that be considered ethical in any way, shape, or form? A disability does not mean that a person has no right to live, although, sadly, there are countless people who disagree.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;I might be a bad parent and adoption isn&#8217;t a practical option&#8221; argument is flat-out laughable, considering there are thousands upon thousands of couples who want to adopt but haven&#8217;t been able to. This applies to the &#8220;financially unprepared&#8221; argument, too.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, though, each and every one of these examples comes back to the same thing: convenience. All of these examples are about women being able to have an abortion whenever they feel that a baby might be inconvenient for them. And not only is it something that they should be able to do, but they should apparently feel good about it, because they&#8217;re making an <em>ethical<\/em> choice: to kill their child because they can&#8217;t accept the consequences of their actions. According to the blogger, there are times when &#8211; according to her &#8211; giving birth is the <em>less<\/em> ethical option, where it would have been better to just kill the baby.<\/p>\n<p>This attitude, while hardly rare in the pro-abortion community, is absolutely sickening. How much have we cheapened life if we&#8217;re at the point where not only are we allowed to kill the most defenseless among us, but women are being told that doing so means they are making an &#8220;ethical&#8221; decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much have we cheapened life if we&#8217;re at the point where not only are we allowed to kill the most defenseless among us, but women are being told that doing so means they are making an &#8220;ethical&#8221; decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Convenience, disabilities: reasons abortion can be &quot;ethical&quot; - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/convenience-disabilities-reasons-abortion-can-be-ethical\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Convenience, disabilities: reasons abortion can be &quot;ethical&quot; - 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