Although I understand social stigma’s and medical resources vary, to terminate your infant at 6 months gestation simply because you think they’re not pretty enough brings a pathetic moral implication to an already controversial debate. There is no question, the baby was in excruciating pain at that point of development. What makes me even more sad is that there are those whose politics come before their morality and desire to protect these babies.

My son was born two months premature. Perhaps that is why I will never understand or condone late term abortions or think of them as victorious to women’s advancement. I think they are a sad indictment of women in general and people in general. People who are without compassion and ability to protect the innocent.

I am no pro-lifer, in fact, I support a woman’s right to choose in the first trimester, but I will never, ever sacrifice my moral compass and desire to protect babies who’s only fault in this world is having a horrible person as a mother, that they would allow their infant to be tortured and killed because of the way they will look. It’s absolutely grotesque.

And the morning after pill isn’t even going to prevent women without heart from doing this to their late-term babies. Of course, if it is determined that the baby or mother’s life is in jeopardy, that is one thing, to do this based on aesthetics is quite another.

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) — A woman who has posted in her Internet diary a notation about having an abortion on a baby with a cleft lip is coming under international scrutiny. Both Chinese and American media outlets have written about the woman and the condemnation that has followed the abortion.
The woman says she had an abortion six months into pregnancy of a health baby with no other physical problems other than a cleft lip — which can be surgically repaired in what has become a routine medical procedure.

“I am totally and utterly distressed at the thought of my baby mumbling and stuttering the way my niece does who also has a harelip. I cannot find a way out,” the woman wrote originally on her diary, according to the China Daily news service.

She also wrote of the ultrasound she had done and the pictures she saw of her baby.

“It was the first time I had ever seen the lovely creature who has accompanied me for six months as I lay on a hospital bed for a check up. He is so cute. Sometimes he stretches, sometimes he gapes, and sometimes he sucks his little fingers. However it makes me shiver to see a cleft, ranging from 3 to 7 millimeters in his upper lip,” she wrote the next day.

The unnamed woman says she asked her parents and husband what to do and decided to have the abortion.

“I called my husband, parents, brother and friends. To my surprise, they also thought I should have an abortion. Finally I made up my mind to give him up,” she wrote, according to China Daily.

Numerous people have posted comments in reaction to the woman’s story saying they strongly disagree with her decision to have an abortion.

One poster, Dr. Zhang Silai, wrote that “Being a doctor, I don’t agree with Fish, since a harelip is not incurable and a life shouldn’t be terminated for such a tiny defect.” Read the rest…

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