In theory I could have said “no”. But my answer is a definite “yes”. I can understand the reasons why some people may choose abortion, and in some cases it does seem to be the best choice all around. But this is my child you’re talking about, and I don’t care what logic says, I want it to live. In the same way that I wouldn’t want my leg amputated, regardless of the consequences, I’d never want this part of me killed, no matter what.
My daughter was born with a tumor that was luckily removed with an operation. She is healthy now. The gynaecologist had overlooked it when running the tests on my wife, but I think that if he had noticed, he might have persuaded us to abort. There were many possible problems that she could have faced, and even today the doctors are not sure what caused the tumor and what the implications could have been under different circumstances.
So on a medical level, I am extremely happy that the doctor missed it, and feel very lucky. I would have never met this wonderful child. On a philosophical level of course, perhaps she was not meant to be born, and we’re playing with God’s will (who said God’s against abortion, or death?). Maybe God’s plan was for her to be aborted, and the doctor messed it up. Or maybe the plan was for her to die soon after birth, and the surgeon messed that one up. So the religious argument could work pro-abortion quite easily in fact. There’s no way of determining God’s will (especially since he seems to not be playing dice, but “an obscure card game, whose rules He only knows, in the dark, and He’s cheating”).
@dominicX my godson was 5m premature. he had to spend 3 months in an incubator. When he was born he was smaller than a packet of cigarettes!
He’s a healthy (and very tall and fat) 6-year-old now :)