I would not define this child as a person. I sincerely feel for the mom, I could not imagine how to even cope with that sort of thing. I only hope the doctors gave her all the information and didn't lead her on. If that was the case, I would say that she made a selfish and poor decision. But that is me sitting on the outside, not ever having been put in this position. If this were my child, and my wife and I were forced to make this decision in hot cognition, I don't know what I'd do.
Now that the child is born, I am of the opinion that it's too late to do anything but care for the child until she dies. As far as the whole "it" thing, I don't know. I can see how your mom would see it as insensitive. She is a human child, she has a sex, you could call her a "she."
Now that the child is born, I am of the opinion that it's too late to do anything but care for the child until she dies. As far as the whole "it" thing, I don't know. I can see how your mom would see it as insensitive. She is a human child, she has a sex, you could call her a "she."
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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