Abortion is morally wrong

[bennyboy]

I have 3 children...

Ages 19, 20, and 22 Y.O.

Sounds like you're a couple years out from a bunch of grandchildren, too.

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I'm not sure why you're making such a thing out of late-term abortions. They're not really a concern, IMO, especially since the vast majority are done when a life is threatened, which makes late-term abortion a good thing.

I don't think Jenny A's intent was to demonize late term abortion or the people who find it medically necessary. She certainly didn't start ranting or raving about it, or make a big deal IMO.

In general, I think it's fair to say that as a fetus develops, it gets harder and harder to justify ending its development. A late-term fetus can feel pain. I has limited communication with the mother and even with the environment beyond. This is very different than a newly-fertilized egg, which is really only a couple vodkas and a broken condom away from non-existence anyway.

But none of that means that killing a fetus late-term is intrinsically immoral. You could perhaps argue that even AFTER birth, it could sometimes be better to kill a young infant than to allow it to live. For example, if a child is born with a severe birth defect in a society which will neither provide care for it nor give it a chance to find beauty in its limited circumstances, a loving mother could conceivably decide that walking into the ocean with babe in arms would be better than living on in hell.