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

[Zazzy]

Many women would have the child rather than have an illegal abortion, if only because they didn't know where to obtain one. Total abortions (legal and illegal) doubled from 1969 to 1980.

Yup. Poor and uneducated women won't know what to do or where to go. You'll have beaten them into their rightful place.

If they can decide what to do with their own bodies, they can decide not to have sex until they're prepared to handle the consequences.

Having an abortion IS handling the consequences, John. I know that you don't like the idea of sexual freedom (although you appear not to be singling women out for this, which I applaud). I DO like sexual freedom, and so do many other people. And I can deal with the consequences, as can most women. You sniffing around our reproductive parts is weird.

How much would you love it? What measures would you accept, if any, to reduce it?

That's probably an issue for another thread. Actually, almost all of this is an issue for another thread. If you'd like, start one and I'll reply there.

How would you pick?

In this scenario the choice is already made - the one with the congenital disease which is going to kill it anyway.

I'm not sure what to make of this, since that's the logic behind many abortions in the scenario of this thread. It's going to die in horrible pain, so spare it- and everyone else- the suffering.

Oh crap, if we're allowed to cop out, then I retract my earlier statement and likewise don't know what I'd do. Wow, that makes things a whole lot easier!

Well, I did realize pretty quick that it was actually a pretty bad analogy. But watching you defend that position was fun. Sorry- I should have simply said earlier that I made a bad analogy.

So if there is a family that had just gone through this that read your post, they'd be mischaracterizing you if they felt that you didn't know fuck-all about their position and that your words were judgmental of and hurtful to them?

Yes.

Perhaps, John, you ought to rephrase your initial remark about insignificance, then, because that remark sounds really awful, as everyone here is telling you.