I have to be honest, I would not have a deformed baby, nor adopt one. I am not patient enough, caring, sympathetic, and nor do I have faith in myself to even try. I can't even take care of myself sometimes.
Therefore, I do not have the right to have a child, even if it is a perfect fetus. The child is at risk for neglect, physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence, poverty, drug/alcohol abuse, and improper parenting.
My mother took that risk and I endured all of that torment. Many times have believed I was never meant to be, I was a mistake.
I do not want my child growing up thinking that, or doubting my decision as I doubt my mother's.
Sometimes the cruelty of the life you were born into doesn't seem all that bad compared to being aborted when you can't even remember a thing.
When I think of people speaking out against abortion, I think of this family, a 'perfect' husband and wife, who adopted 5 children, and for years, they starved them, beaten them with a chain, one child had frostbite so bad that he had missing fingers, made them sleep in a small van with no heat in the -40 degree weather while the parents slept in the warm house. And instead of going to school they had to work long ten hour days before they could get a meal. These are children! One was only 3 years old! And she had to find food for herself! Think of these children! What's worse? Living with an empty stomach, working all day, getting beaten, and freezing your ass off all day or simply not living?
I ask you this, all of the sympathetic pro-life people. Think of the MILLIONS of children that are being treated like this, and sadly we don't even know about half of them.
And I think we should do something about prevention, like having drug addicted/alcoholic mothers sterilized or unfit fathers given vasectomies. I think there should be community health programs that offer these sterilizations at reasonable costs, and for lower income families, it should even be free.
