Tapsearch Com EditorAbortion on demand, except when it makes me feel icky
September 22nd 2007 01:02
Doctors are worrying that parents are genetically screening their kids, then aborting when the kids will have very minor diseases.
Over at Slate, William Saletan summarizes the abortion-rights supporters' debate:
If a fetus isn't a human life, you should be able to abort it for whatever the hell reason you want. The very fact abortion-rights supporters are having this debate indicates they realize that fetuses are, to some degree, human lives -- they just value the right to promiscuous, consequence-free sex more highly than that.
Over at Slate, William Saletan summarizes the abortion-rights supporters' debate:
Acceptable pro-choice reactions: 1) It's "debatable" whether "termination of pregnancy of fetuses either treatable or likely to be asymptomatic … represents a true benefit." 2) "To avoid termination of pregnancies for generally mild conditions," we need "a combination of traditional, nondirective genetic counseling" with expert medical counseling. Unacceptable reaction: Aborting these kids is wrong.
I think it's really funny how liberals get all women's-rights hysterical when someone has careless, random sex, but when women use the very same process to have the best kid they can, all of a sudden everyone gets queasy and starts making nuanced arguments. Is it wrong to kill a fetus, or not?If a fetus isn't a human life, you should be able to abort it for whatever the hell reason you want. The very fact abortion-rights supporters are having this debate indicates they realize that fetuses are, to some degree, human lives -- they just value the right to promiscuous, consequence-free sex more highly than that.
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