Abortion in these circumstances?

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I change my opinion, they should abort them all. Life is too depressing to bring any human into it, they will just be depressed and most likely commit suicide.

ask abby and brittany what they think.

I would say no. If they want these children, (erm, child?) Then they should go ahead with it. They will have a lot of problems though, and the fetus is already being exploited, so obviously the baby will be. It's probably best if she does abort it. It has an extremely small survival rate to begin with!

Urg. Me and my dad watched a show on them on TLC. They seriously creeped us out. It was just weird. I hate to say it, but yeah, it just left me feeling uncomfortable, and my dad couldn't really sit though it.

Well, at least you're honest. But would you be that honest to their faces? That's the question.
I can't say I'd 100% feel at ease with them myself either, but I don't put that on them -- that's my fault and society's fault,
not these girls' faults.

But maybe you should at least try to change your attitude toward people who are physically different than yourself?
I'm working on that too -- I think the vast majority of people need to.

Last edited by Ragtime on 16 Jan 2009, 1:25 pm, edited 5 times in total.

The value of life is not a numbers game.

I read a book by a brain surgeon who successfully separated conjoined twins at the brain, which twins obviously had terrible odds against their survival. But now, both kids live normal lives. And, more importantly, they survived. If they had stayed joined, they wouldn't be worth any less.

So, the odds being against someone surviving is no reason to throw in the towel early, and kill them.
That would be employing a false logic at great cost.
In starving countries, the odds are against people living. Should they, therefore, all be killed in your opinion?
Of course not, and furthermore you'd be a horrible person to think so.
It was the ghastly-cruel character Ebenezer Scrooge who coldly said of the poor and indigent: "If they would rather die, perhaps they had better do so, and decrease the surplus population." Is that how you think of unfortunate people?
Maybe Aspies are worth less than NTs, huh? I'm saying just pick a standard and stick to it. Don't be a hypocrite.

I change my mind again, abortion is wrong in any circumstance. What was I thinking?

sometimes not being born is better than being born into a life of pain...

No doubt that's true, and it's clearly a question for God, not for man. Among humans, though, who is to say whether someone else is worth living? Obviously, none can say with any certainty.

(I'm sitting here trying to believe the insensitivity I'm hearing. I didn't know hard-hearted uncaring nihilistic amorality was an Aspie trait.)

In those cases you always have something to live for, I was just depressed when I thought life wasn't worth living and I hope it never gets bad enough to the point I try to kill myself.

i'm the type of person who believes euthenasia should be legal, in extreme circumstances death is the better option as far as i'm concerned. minor depression affects everyone at some point and it's something you can overcome at some point, life long problems that make life an absolute hell are however something that should be considered at least for long enough to make a valid point from both sides.