September 26th, 2011
Galley Friend PMJ sends along a link to this Guardian story about the aborting of a twin. Here’s the key take-away:
“Things would have been different if we were 15 years younger or if we hadn’t had children already or if we were more financially secure,” she said later. “If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn’t have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there’s a natural order, then you don’t want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner – in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me – and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.”
As PMJ notes, “Well, precisely.”
This may be a depressing low in the argument about abortion: We’ve reached a place where pro-abortionists are occasionally willing to stipulate to the entire anti-abortion line of thinking–except that at the end of the line they just shrug and do what they want anyway.
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Depressing but honest.
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Somewhere Leon Kass is saying I told you so.
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tibor September 26, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Wow. I’m amazed at some people’s willingness and ability to thread moral needles so effortlessly or, in the following case, so cluelessly:
“We’ve talked a lot about it,” she says after a bit. “I’ve come to realise there’s only so much we can control. There’s a point where you just have to let nature take its course.”
This from a woman who aborted one of her IVF-induced twins right before her lesbian partner miscarried her own set of IVF-induced twins.