Two posts ago I referenced a blog in which a couple decided to have an abortion because their baby was diagnosed with a particularly rough form of cystic fibrosis.
I've thought about that story often.
I wondered what an atheist response might be. And so I googled it. Apparently there is a collection of "pro-life humanists"who argue,
Would we kill a two year-old whose father suddenly abandons his unemployed mother, in order to ease the mother’s budget or prevent the child from growing up in poverty? Would we dismember a young preschooler if there were indications she might grow up in an abusive home? If the preborn are indeed human beings, we have a social duty to find compassionate ways to support women, that do not require the death of one in order to solve the problems of the other.
Life is hard-- avoiding conflict does not make it less so.
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