[MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ

[Ham Priday]

Michael --


> Ham wrote
> Human values are not served by bringing infants into the
> world with life-threatening physical deformities, severe
> brain damage, blindness, and degenerative diseases.

[MP]:
> MP: Yikes. I personally know a few people that would
> viscerally take serious offense to that statement, Ham.

No doubt that's true.  Every cognizant individual wants to live out his 
life, regardless of the circumstances.  It's the survival instinct of 
nature's biology.  However, we are talking here about the mother's control 
over the fate of a pre-cognitive human organism.  Does she want to bring a 
child into the world knowing that it may suffer a fate worse than death -- a 
torturous life of extreme physical or mental incapacity with little or no 
hope of survival, much less a normal human existence?

Put yourself in that mother's predicament, Michael, and tell me if you would 
willingly submit your child to such a life if you could prevent it?  How 
would you justify choosing to sustain that life?  Because it is your "moral 
obligation" as a mother?  Because it's 'The Will of God"?  Because you 
believe Life is so sacred that there is no such anomaly as an ill-begotten 
creature?

I surmise that you are a rational, compassionate person.  Your considered 
response may reveal more about your values than either of us was aware of.

Thanks and regards,
Ham