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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuuvi View Post
    I've met people who were born pre-maturely and they turned out just fine. When I was born I got stuck in my mother's birth canal and the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck so I lost oxygen at birth. Then to top it all off when I was still a newborn I got meningitis. The odds were against me and despite all that I don't have any disabilities or impairments. IMO we shouldn't end someone's life when there's a chance that nothing will be wrong.

    And even then, a life of disability doesn't mean a life of unhappiness. We all suffer to some extent, whether we have a disability or not.
    Each situation is differant the doctors will advise the parents of the risks and they make there choice.

    The choice is there's to make because they and the baby will live with the consequences.

    You miss the point people like Singer and the ones in the OP's link are making though, these babies have not fully developed cognitively as people yet. An adult disabled person has a personality and cognitive ability however impaired and naturally deserves life.

    Babies on the other hand are basically hairless chimpanzees who develop there faculties later, it does not mean we love em any less but we might have to acknowledge it. (it's a terribly utilitarian view but then these are extreme situations)


    Sometimes we really do have to ask if the choice to have a child was really as selfless a choice as we might like to pretend.



    It's too easy to just dismiss these ideas as crackpot or fascist but the reality is we make choices like these everyday we just pretend there not the same.

    Me as I said already I am quite fine with hypocracy and just pretending it wont happen to me I am Irish after all it's our nature.
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