To Individual.

From what I've seen. People with a disability still have the same yearning to live as anyone else does. They might not like the disability, but they still want to live. In fact I see inspiring reports occasionally on the news about a person born with one issue, or deal with another health condition later in life, who become an inspiring subject to report on be cause they make it work somehow. They want to continue on and keep on living.

Granted these stories might be the only ones I've seen because their the only ones I've been exposed to through news stories. But even so I haven't met anyone that was born with a physical or mental disability that didn't want to live. They might want an easier life, but they still want to live.

Just something to think about when making the decisions for potential aborted babies.

Not_Now.Soon,
Of course, once being brought into the world no-one including I wants to stop living. What I was saying is that, in hindsight, many people would prefer they hadn't been brought into this world in the first place with such horrific handicaps.
Existence is highly overrated whilst living standard is underrated.

Individual

u obviously have not heard of the Australian born nick Vujicic.

Born without arms and legs he lives life more to the full than most 'able' bodied people.

runner,
do you know how many able-bodied people kill themselves every day ?

To Runner

Thanks for mentioning Nick Vujicic. Looked him up and was glad to see his testomy in the life he has.

To Individual.

I haven't met anyone who wishes they weren't born because of a handicap. I've met many with depression that are not handicapped at all, and those who are depressed with a handicap. But the depression isn't always about that handicap. Wish life was easier; wish they had what they see other people have; even to wish away any kind of failure they hold. These reasons of depression reach both able bodied people as well as people with a handicap. And many people from both able bodied and handicapped populations are able to rise out of their depressions. They don't end their lives.

With this in mind, you and I have no right to take that decision from them and make it ourselves. You don't know how anyone will turn out. Abortion on the basis of looking out for the person being denied the right to live, is a very deceitful way to look at it. There's nothing true about the approach, but instead ignores the examples that prove the reasoning to be in error.

Do be that way and hold this reason for abortion to be for the person's benifit. After all, if the logic of killing out of kindness can be applied to a baby before it's born. Why is it so unthinkable to kill a baby after it's born. When the parents and doctors can see the disability they are born with? The logic for abortion is never for the one being aborted.

To Individual.

Sorry for the error. In the last paragraph, I meant for the first sentence to read "do not be that way..." Instead of "do be that way..." Sorry if this made it hard to read or caused confusion.