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Originally posted by Penske_Account
2. In part. I have had a friend and a close relative face the issue of a catastrophically disabled unborn child and what to do with it. I offered no advice, because I didn't think it was my place. I just tried to be understanding and supportive. It did cause me to be close enough to the issue to think through what I would do and maybe through the magic of my other parenthoods I decided I couldn't take the unborn child out, if I had to deal with it. Sometimes tests are wrong, sometimes technology changes. Life with kids is never perfect, lots can go wrong. For me I choose the culture of life. In honour of Terri Schiavo, the martyr.
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Well, on the tests, once you get a genetic test back (not the initial screen), I think it's pretty much dead-on for the things they test for. Which isn't too many. My recollection is fuzzy, as always.
I frankly have a hard time getting on a political high-horse on this issue. I marched on Washington back in early college in 1988 (not since, interestingly). I have a very high sense of both personal liberty and personal responsibility and accountability (I don't see much wrong with Seb's suggestion of lifelong responsibility for both parents, unless they agree otherwise). But yes, I feel more keenly now about "life." Rather than legislative or judicial solutions to the abortion question, in my utopia, people would just make extremely smart choices and live with and up to the consequences of failures or lapses and a bad luck of the draw.
