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What about other chronic conditions, like for example Osteogenesis Imperfecta?



Without a doubt they should never be brought to term. Noone who suffers from this affliction ever became a useful part of society.


On a more serious note, there was a really well written piece in Slate today ( Tiller's Killer ) which argued forcibly from both sides of the debate and really pointed out the difficulties as you move further out to the margins:

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The people who do late-term abortions are the ones who don't flinch. They're like the veterans you sometimes see in war documentaries, quietly recounting what they faced and did. You think you're pro-choice. You think marching or phone-banking makes you an activist. You know nothing. There's you, and then there are the people who work in the clinics. And then there are the people who use the forceps. And then there are the people who use the forceps nobody else will use. At the end of the line, there's George Tiller.

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The people who kill abortion providers are the ones who don't flinch. They're like the veterans you sometimes see in war documentaries, quietly recounting what they faced and did. You think you're pro-life. You tell yourself that abortion is murder. Maybe you even say that when a pollster calls. But like most of the other people who say such things in polls, you don't mean it literally. There's you, and then there are the people who lock arms outside the clinics. And then there are the people who bomb them. And at the end of the line, there's the guy who killed George Tiller.





FWIW, I used to be an ardent pro-choicer, now I have my doubts. If you slice the bologna thin enough there are some things that I think are wrong.

What would I do if I were an unwed pregnant teen, 6 months pregnant with a fetus that has been diagnosed to have severe physical and mental disabilities? I'm less certain now than I used to be. I am relieved I don't have to make that decision.
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