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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Joy and grace?  I'm sure some people who bring a severely impaired child to term do experience that - witness the Santorum family.

But many suffer a terrible emotional, physical, and financial toll,[b] the worst of which is  watching their innocent child suffer while they stand by, unable to help.[/b]
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That doesn't make sense. So you preempt that by causing the suffering yourself? [/quote]

Yes, exactly. That is the point. An abortion is a quick and painless way to die for the fetus -- being born with a deadly birth defects is not. [/quote]

This shows a lack of informed decision making. Many abortions are not quick or painless. Depending on the size of the 'fetus', some are dismembered limb by limb, others have a chemical / acid injected that burns them and that they swallow. Not exactly my definition of quick and painless. [/quote]

Okay, fine, I give up. I tried for a few posts to discuss this on a reasonable level, but the NP is right -- the passions are too high apparently to talk about this rationally.

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PP, calling a position irrational does not make it so.

Fact:  extensive medical research has demonstrated that fetuses can feel pain.

Fact:  D&E abortions dismember the fetus.

Fact:  saline abortions replace amniotic fluid with a saline solution that burns the fetus' skin and is injested, causing convulsions and eventually death.  These abortions are more rare now, due to large numbers of babies being born alive, but horribly disfigured.

Fact:  some abortions simply involve induction of labor and withholding medical care.  Or, the doctor will inject the fetus' heart with potassium chloride first, so the baby will definitely be born dead.

Fact:  another term for TMR is eugenic abortion.  The pregnancy does not threaten the mother's health.  There is something wrong with the baby.  Eugenic abortion is not rhetoric;  it is a legal term.

None of this is pleasant.  All of this is tragic.  And so far, post-birth violent abortions are not allowed.  But there are ethicists who argue for them, precisely because we are already doing these actions in the womb.[/quote]

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