10 grand to abort a baby.

I can really sympathize with the parents, because a child like that...I don't think is going to even be able to live a meaningful life. It's from a logical perspective and the one carrying the baby obviously wants to keep it, there's an emotional attachment to it. Personally I do find it selfish of her because the disabilities are not an inconvinience they are leathal, and costly.

Although it's not the same issue, I did read a story about first-time parents having a baby with very severe disabilities (How severe? We're talking issues like having almost all of his vital organs being deformed along with major brain damage) being taken off the tube by consent of the parents despite the doctor insisting he could have some quality of life. This little girl reminds me of that baby as she clearly has problems current medical advances can't cure and while she might have been given the gift of life for now how long can she hold on to it and what suffering will she go through before it all ends?

I know some people have opinions on these issues saying that if such abortions are carried out then merely imperfect babies could also be aborted, but that's just going down the slippery slope. There were times when I thought they acted harshly but there does seem to be an underlying concern about bringing in a new life to this world only to watch it fade away because they were careless, and the chance to live a normal life is very low too even if the baby survives all of the surgeries which doesn't take into account that each surgery is highly stressful to her.

Then there's the fact of how they threatened to make the kid a ward of the state...yeah, I'm still split even going through this article the second time.