How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?

[Zazzy]

1. You've just demonstrated how unimportant and insignificant life itself is to the atheist crowd.

2. This scenario is a tiny, tiny fraction of abortion. I would accept it as a practical compromise if it meant the end of abortion as routine birth control.

Which is it, John? Since you would compromise on this, it must mean you don't care about these lives either. You can't have it both ways. Either it's murder or it's not murder.

So, you think killing a child preemptively is good, but letting the child live and having hope is evil.

What I think is that this decision is up to the family who faces such a terrible scenario. It's not up to you or me to make such a decision for them.

And given that, I don't think making the decision to have such a child is evil, although I made a bet with myself after my last post that you would try to twist my words this way (and I win!). It's not up to me to judge what other intelligent people do with their own bodies.

Many such children never get old enough to know what hope is. They're babies in terrible pain until they die. That's all they'll ever know of life- pain. You clearly think it's OK for abortion to happen under such a circumstance. Me, too. But it isn't up to either one of us.