I haven't read this whole thread, but I am with Romy.
For those that say "let nature take it's course". Abortion is NOT nature.
I personally would carry to term, even with the knowledge my baby would not live for long. However with such a serious condition I would chose to spend what little time with my baby with no wires attached.
However it is a parents choice. And to those on the outside, to whom that infant means nothing, it is easy to say they should abort, or not give medical treatment. Especially those people who do not have children of their own. I absolutely cannot imagine the hurt those people are going through, and would not judge them for the way they feel, because I cannot imagine how hard it must be to give up hope that your child will survive.
For those that say "let nature take it's course". Abortion is NOT nature.
I personally would carry to term, even with the knowledge my baby would not live for long. However with such a serious condition I would chose to spend what little time with my baby with no wires attached.
However it is a parents choice. And to those on the outside, to whom that infant means nothing, it is easy to say they should abort, or not give medical treatment. Especially those people who do not have children of their own. I absolutely cannot imagine the hurt those people are going through, and would not judge them for the way they feel, because I cannot imagine how hard it must be to give up hope that your child will survive.
But I do think, strongly, and I am not militantly pro-choice, that anyone who tells a woman carrying such a child that she may not abort it, that she must have it, even with the risk of childbirth (riskier in those situations) and the lack of hope for the child, is cruel, ignorant and barbaric. They care more about the idea that "abortion is wrong" than the actual living woman, or even the welfare of the baby. I've seen (in pictures, not in person, thank God) some of the truly awful things that can go wrong, and hear the horrific stories of pain and torment those babies experience. Not to mention the agony of the parents. (again, this thread is about treatment of babies with a specific defect, where this isn't the case . . . those babies don't feel pain). Forcing a woman, a family, to carry through with such a pregancy supposedly out of concern for an infant that is going to endure great pain and die on a point of principle upsets me a great deal.
That said . . . that really isn't what this thread is about.