Handicapped Children: Keep or Abort?

[The Stranger]

If they chose not to have an abortion of course they chose to have the child! Merely that this is not a choice they wished to face changes nothing. If you're religious take it up with a priest. Personally I think it's a cruel universe and merely squealing that it's not fair changes nothing.

that is not an argument. just because something is doenst mean it ought to be. the fact that the state of the world is a cruel one doesnt mean that it ought to be or that it can't change or that you must go along with it. defaitism...

just because a person is sick doesnt mean he ought to be or that you must do nothing to change it...

also i want to stress the point that actually we need to pose 2 different questions.

1) should people have the choice to know and if they do know should they get the choice to abort (and on which terms are they allowed to do so?)

2) when a handicapped child is born, REGARDLESS of whether or not the parents knew about it before it was born, who should pay for the cost.