Alphecca

I'm with you on the abortion thing. Although, if the parents are prepared for it, a child with a serious handicap who is loved anyway can still lead a happy life. Just look at Juliana Wetmore (in her case though, her parents didn't know until she was born about her terrible situation).

On the other hand, if the parents aren't prepared for something like that, an abortion would probably be the most merciful thing.

Why does a known and seriously crippling condition diminish the value of life? Does the name Stephen Hawking mean anything to you? There are many others who have had known seriously crippling conditions who given the choice did not commit suicide...they certainly valued their own lives. Should someone have put FDR out of his misery when he came down with polio? What gives you the right to choose death for an innocent someone else?

So it should be at the parents' convenience? Bull. Children are often not convenient...but why preclude the chance of an "inconvenient" child having a good, or even important life...how dare you take it on yourself to decide that child should die for your convenience?

Actually, Forward Thinking is the host this week. HM is the administrator of CotV, and the post you linked is one of a bunch of posts all linked from http://harshlymellow.com/cotv so all the info is easy to find.

I even compiled a list of every location of CotV for its entire history!

In any event, getting your entries in is still good, and the deadline is officially 6 PM eastern time on Tuesday (some hosts will grab entries that show up after that, but assume they'll go on the next week and you won't be disappointed).

"So it should be at the parents' convenience? Bull. Children are often not convenient...but why preclude the chance of an "inconvenient" child having a good, or even important life...how dare you take it on yourself to decide that child should die for your convenience?"

I agree, but what I was saying was that it some parents would not love a child born that way. Yes, they are despicable. But that does not change the fact that the child would be born into a world where it knew it was not loved by its parents. It would be more merciful to let the parents, shit-heads that they are, kill the baby before it is born, before it can know that it is not loved. Before it experiences any real pain. By real, I mean life long torment. The simple quick pain of death, felt as a firing of nerves, void of fear, does not count.

Heh... Ben as Imelda of the gun blogosphere. I am still laughing about that one...

Personally I am Pro-its-none-of-my-buisness. But here is my one thought on the mess. I live 40 min from where the wealthy/congress critters took their girlfriends for abortions in the early 1900s, long before it was legal. All banning it will do is make it much more deadly for mother and whatever you may want to call the dividing cells...