Question For Pro-Choice People

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(05-16-2019, 02:21 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: That common thread has nothing to do with the context in which the cutting off limbs scenario was introduced. Choosing a mate based on their genetic traits is in no way connected to whether or not one has the right to cut the limbs off a fetus. 

(05-16-2019, 02:32 PM)Benton Wrote: This slippery slope style of argument is absurd. One of the most common themes in choosing a mate is often related to someone's genetic predisposition to be like them. You can divide that up by race, height, what you're determining as a handicap, weight, etc. You shouldn't, though. That's the flip side of the same logic people use to abort babies with autism, mental retardation, etc.

I understand the religious displeasure with medically induced pregnancies (just a couple weeks ago my pastor for mother's day made multiple references to how test tube babies aren't really people, that you can't be a person without a mother and the Father), but using science to have a child more like you is not the same as surgically maiming children. Good grief.

Sure, we'll just disagree. Of course one is going to consider one "worse" and personally I'll take limbs over hearing. But IMO both are striving to disable their child. They ladies said they wanted to have a disabled child. There's reasons there are laws to disallow relatives to marry and as far as I know it has to do with the medical harm it may cause the child.

I have nothing against medically induced pregnancies, but what if the mom has no arms? Should she be allowed to put a substance in the test tube that can block the development of limbs?  IMO both are perverse. "I'm disabled, so I want my child to be."