Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted

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The problem here is that, no matter how many scientific and ethical considerations we can make while arguing that a foetus is not a person since there is no conscience, and so nothing is lost by voluntarily interrupting a pregnancy, it isn't a piece of cake for all women. When it comes down to the decision of saying 'Hey doc, I want to abort this baby, that's the best call', that may not be so easy... I am not a woman and so I cannot talk, but I firmly believe there are different convictions between different females and every one of them will react differently to the possibility of aborting an unborn foetus or not.

The magic of being pro-choice is the choice itself - A woman can chose to keep the unborn 'baby' or not - It's not anyone else's business - And just like people have nothing to do with a woman's conduct of terminating a pregnancy, the same applies for her decision to keep a baby in rare circumstances, such as in case of medical deficiency or pregnancy as a rape consequence.

My vision here is that while I think X is X and Y is Y, other people do not have to follow the same orientation - Let's take the example of my girlfriend - Even though she didn't use these precise words I take that it's what motivates her - She believes that there is a biological, psychological, naturalistic and ethical obligation a woman has for an unborn foetus - Even if it is 2 weeks old. She isn't imposing this view on everyone else, it's just as she sees things, and while I may or may not agree with her (and I should worry because if everything turns out fine I'll be the father of her children) my only option is to accept her personal ethics. All of this to say different people will make different considerations about the topic of abortion - And that's why we should allow every women to make her biological, emotional and ethical decisions regarding the issue - I'm not even talking about women who believe it is a terrible hell granting sin to abort, but about the ones who may just not be ok doing it.

I talked about this with Napo - When a woman is pregnant and it was planned, she is usually filled with joy and inevitably an emotional attachment to the foetus is created, no matter how undeveloped or (to be more precise) non existent as a person it is - In the overwhelming majority of cases, foetus malformations are detected after the woman found out about her pregnancy, when the so called emotional attachment is already strong, and as we all know Humans are emotional beings, it's hard to make all of our life decisions based on reason solely, sometimes we rely on our guts or instinct more - And so it becomes hard to abort an unborn foetus - I'm not even mentioning the more problematic cases of malformations being discovered very late in pregnancies when it is either illegal to abort because the unborn baby is already considered a person and possesses the characteristics for that; or because even if abortion is legal it is a late stage one, it may require surgery, the line between foetus and human person/baby may be blurry, etc.

All of this just to suggest that abortion is rational because the foetus is not a person is not that simple and there's lots of diverging points that can be made on the subject - In my opinion it sweeps unto moral relativism almost completely - The case of a woman having an ethical obligation to provide for a foetus, I've seen women having completely opposite positions.

In my opinion, a woman should be able to abort or not - It is a personal choice and she can do it or not for any reasons she wants too - Even if those reasons are religiously motivated, it legally comes up to an individual decision