Imagine you are expecting your first child. Upon investigation, the doctors found a 70% chance of your unborn child carrying a neurological disease that will make your child permanently psychotic and out of touch with reality until the day he dies. Once someone get this disease, it cannot be cured. So, as a parent, you are left with two choices:
1)Let the baby live. There are still 30% that my baby can be completely normal. If my child has a chance of making it out ok, I will have my child.
2)Abort the baby/Let it die. No one deserves to live with a possible consequence of carrying a serious neurological disease.
Which one would you choose? Comments are encouraged.
1)Let the baby live. There are still 30% that my baby can be completely normal. If my child has a chance of making it out ok, I will have my child.
2)Abort the baby/Let it die. No one deserves to live with a possible consequence of carrying a serious neurological disease.
Which one would you choose? Comments are encouraged.
I think it would be more horrible to let the child live with a seriously, psychological condition than let it die.
People do make this kind of decision a lot based on genetic testing done during pregnancy, I have no clue what the ratio of keep/abort is though. I know one test they always offer is for spina bifida, some people refuse the test alltogether because they don't care to even know, they're having their baby anyway. Of those that get a bad result, obviously SOME of those people carry the child because there's plenty of people living with spina bifida. But like I said I have NO clue if the data even exists as to the keep/abort ratio.
http://stephenmwagner.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-percentage-of-spina-bifida-kids.html
http://www.mychildmygift.com/testimonials_my_Child_my_gift.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_ParentingResource/down-syndrome-births-drop-us-women-abort/story?id=8960803#.T7zXjUWZ2So
Not really too much hard fact, these things can't really be truly known but it's some good reading for the subject.
The baby will come out fine. You wanna know why? BecaUSe I said so.