Michael --
Ham wrote Human values are not served by bringing infants into the world with life-threatening physical deformities, severe brain damage, blindness, and degenerative diseases.
[MP]:
MP: Yikes. I personally know a few people that would viscerally take serious offense to that statement, Ham.
No doubt that's true. Every cognizant individual wants to live out his life, regardless of the circumstances. It's the survival instinct of nature's biology. However, we are talking here about the mother's control over the fate of a pre-cognitive human organism. Does she want to bring a child into the world knowing that it may suffer a fate worse than death -- a torturous life of extreme physical or mental incapacity with little or no hope of survival, much less a normal human existence?
Put yourself in that mother's predicament, Michael, and tell me if you would willingly submit your child to such a life if you could prevent it? How would you justify choosing to sustain that life? Because it is your "moral obligation" as a mother? Because it's 'The Will of God"? Because you believe Life is so sacred that there is no such anomaly as an ill-begotten creature?
I surmise that you are a rational, compassionate person. Your considered response may reveal more about your values than either of us was aware of.
Thanks and regards, Ham Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
