Adoption of mentally impaired babies

[Catholic_Lady]

I guess I don't see how it is selfish to go through a pregnancy (which is not easy) when you won't get anything out of it, so that you can give your mentally impaired child life and loving parents who are well equipped to take good care of him/her. I think having the child killed would be much more selfish.

Well, it's really not a selfless act, if the parents simply continue with the pregnancy out of a misguided notion that it keeps their asses from frying in Hell.

Rather than simply wanting to avoid heartache and pain, I would assume this hypothetical couple is just set on having "a good one". And perhaps have a religious objection to terminating a pregnancy that would result in what would clearly be an unwanted child (by the birth couple). 

It's silly to assume that someone who chooses to find adoptive parents for their unborn child is simply doing it because they want to avoid going to Hell by getting an abortion. Especially since they could easily just feel remorse for what they've done (which they probably would anyway) and be forgiven. 

Hell or not, many people just don't like the thought of killing their unborn baby. By the time any sort of severe mental impairment is diagnosed, the baby is usually well into the second trimester and can usually feel pain at that point. Abortion is not a painless death, like putting your dog to sleep. And to say that any parent would choose adoption over abortion in this case simply out of fear of hell is extremely offensive to anyone who has been in that position. 

Also, as I said. I'd rather just stick to the morality of the act presented rather than bring abortion into it. Somehow I always get baited into responding even though it's the last thing I wanna talk about right now.