After birth abortion?

[Mermaid]

My sister was almost aborted when my mom found herself pregnant with her at 19 to a drug dealing, abusive boyfriend.

My sister had nothing to do with the circumstances she was put in. It wasn't her fault. She didn't ask to be put in that situation. She was a completely innocent bystander to the crappy situation she was put in. The notion that my sister was somehow an intruder who was violating my mother's body is absurd.

Thank God for my pro life aunt who took my mother in and was the only person who told her not to abort. She saved my sister's life.

I am happy you are grateful, and that your mother made that very very personal choice to have the baby.

That is the key word. Choice. That was her choice.

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So while I don’t condone infanticide this does bring up a few interesting ideas: what is personhood? And are babies “persons” in the same way older humans are?

And yes, if you rely on personhood as your justification for abortion then it could be argued that infanticide is morally permissible. But I think that’s a less interesting discussion. This is partially because I abhor killing anything, and infanticide is particularly difficult to justify.

I will go along with the reason for time limits on abortion: The mother's body is required up to a certain point. After that period, abortion is not legal. Before that, the baby is not an autonomous being. You get the choice to make your very private decision about your own body.