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This is the cold hard truth, cannot imagine what they've been through as parents but from a purely quantitative perspective this is a totally fair point.
by bojangleslover 5y ago
This is the cold hard truth, cannot imagine what they've been through as parents but from a purely quantitative perspective this is a totally fair point.
- kelnos 5y agoYeah. I'm disappointed in all the downvotes and flags the parent post got (I briefly managed to resurrect it via a vouch, but it quickly got killed again). It was worded in a terrible, heartless way, but it's not wrong. The child was doomed from the day they got those test results in. Their doctor was clear with them that the diagnosed condition wasn't something survivable. Why should taxpayers be burdened with medical costs ("millions of dollars", according to OP) in this kind of situation? Why should parents be allowed to cause and prolong the suffering of that poor child, who had to endure so much pain in her short life? I'm sure their intentions were good, but the outcome was so much worse for everyone involved than if they'd terminated the pregnancy. How can we incentivize people to make better decisions in these sorts of situations, when doing the right thing is such a difficult, emotionally-harrowing thing to do?
- pseudalopex 5y agoMaybe the parents would have made a choice you liked if the people of Indiana gave them more than a few days to grieve before taking away the choice to abort.
- kelnos 5y agoOh, I absolutely acknowledge that was a big factor. It's disgusting that the pro-life folks have, yet again, caused suffering through their imposition of their values on others.
- kingsloi 5y agoI think it was your comment that I was replying to but it was deleted before I could post, thankfully I copied it before I posted. Apologies if not. I think you said we got it wrong, how wrong did we get it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236092