kdawg
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My dad was a family doctor in a fairly deprived area his whole career - and sort of pro-life in that he didn’t like abortion as birth control.
But he tells a story in response to people like this. He had a young disabled patient (deaf and blind as well as developmental delay) who was raped by her alcoholic father and became pregnant.
He has no doubts that the right thing to do was to send her for an abortion. Others argued (like they still do) that the child could have been adopted - but it was likely to be disabled, the disabled girl would have to go through 9 months of not understanding what was happening to her with all the associated complications - and then delivery. What were they supposed to do then - just give her a teddy bear and that would all be fine?
That’s the response to idiots like him - hopefully they sputter and backpedal a bit - and then you have the flaw in their argument.
If they don’t then they’re just callous human beings because someone with zero exceptions can’t be anything else.