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Some fetuses fail to develop correctly, and the baby is born with one-or-multiple conditions that will almost certainly be fatal within the first year if not fi
by ndriscoll 2y ago
Some fetuses fail to develop correctly, and the baby is born with one-or-multiple conditions that will almost certainly be fatal within the first year if not first few weeks or days. Their short life will be filled with suffering. You can always find a perspective where any choice you make here is wrong. You're not asking whether they deserve to live; you're asking whether you are a worse person to deny them the chance or to condemn them to their reality. There simply is no good option, even if you take for granted that a fetus is a child and you are entirely focused on doing what's best for them.
There are probably people who are flippant about it, and maybe those people are essentially murderers, but the common case is probably a variety of complex moral dilemmas and special cases to consider, and it's probably a bad idea to jump to the murderer label by default lest you apply it to people who didn't want to have to ask such questions.