if you knew your unborn child had cf would you abort it

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BaylorCrew07

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I honestly don't think I would have an abortion if I knew my child had CF. Part of that may be that my experiences with CF have not been extremely severe and that my case is relatively mild, but I really don't think that I could have an abortion because the baby had CF and be okay with myself.

Just from being on this forum is clear how many CFers live full lives. Granted, they are more difficult than average, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve to live. I understand the counterargument as well...but that's just my 2 cents
 
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BaylorCrew07

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I honestly don't think I would have an abortion if I knew my child had CF. Part of that may be that my experiences with CF have not been extremely severe and that my case is relatively mild, but I really don't think that I could have an abortion because the baby had CF and be okay with myself.

Just from being on this forum is clear how many CFers live full lives. Granted, they are more difficult than average, but that doesn't mean they don't deserve to live. I understand the counterargument as well...but that's just my 2 cents
 
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kswitch

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" In this second half of the twentieth century we do nothing systematic about our breeding; but in our random and unregulated way we are not only over-populating our planet, we are also, it would seem, making sure that these greater numbers shall be of biologically poorer quality. In the bad old days children with considerable, or even with slight, hereditary defects rarely survived. Today, thanks to sanitation, modern pharmacology and the social conscience, most of the children born with hereditary defects reach maturity and multiply their kind. Under the conditions now prevailing, every advance in medicine will tend to be offset by a corresponding advance in the survival rate of individuals cursed by some genetic insufficiency. In spite of new wonder drugs and better treatment (indeed, in a certain sense, precisely because of these things), the physical health of the general population will show no improvement, and may even deteriorate. "
aldous huxley brave new world revisited 1958

i would probably abort the pregnancy. sometimes i think there is too much emphasis on a single human lifeform. and i say lifeform because the majortiy of the abortion debate revolves around when a fetus can be called human. i don't believe that a fetus is human until late term, but there's no satisfactory way to debate that point. i tend to look at a bigger picture and remnove my own wants and desires from questions that carry implications for all of humanity.

that said, i have never been in this situation and may not actaully behave the according to my convictions - ahhh, the perils of being human...
 
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kswitch

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" In this second half of the twentieth century we do nothing systematic about our breeding; but in our random and unregulated way we are not only over-populating our planet, we are also, it would seem, making sure that these greater numbers shall be of biologically poorer quality. In the bad old days children with considerable, or even with slight, hereditary defects rarely survived. Today, thanks to sanitation, modern pharmacology and the social conscience, most of the children born with hereditary defects reach maturity and multiply their kind. Under the conditions now prevailing, every advance in medicine will tend to be offset by a corresponding advance in the survival rate of individuals cursed by some genetic insufficiency. In spite of new wonder drugs and better treatment (indeed, in a certain sense, precisely because of these things), the physical health of the general population will show no improvement, and may even deteriorate. "
aldous huxley brave new world revisited 1958

i would probably abort the pregnancy. sometimes i think there is too much emphasis on a single human lifeform. and i say lifeform because the majortiy of the abortion debate revolves around when a fetus can be called human. i don't believe that a fetus is human until late term, but there's no satisfactory way to debate that point. i tend to look at a bigger picture and remnove my own wants and desires from questions that carry implications for all of humanity.

that said, i have never been in this situation and may not actaully behave the according to my convictions - ahhh, the perils of being human...
 
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kswitch

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" In this second half of the twentieth century we do nothing systematic about our breeding; but in our random and unregulated way we are not only over-populating our planet, we are also, it would seem, making sure that these greater numbers shall be of biologically poorer quality. In the bad old days children with considerable, or even with slight, hereditary defects rarely survived. Today, thanks to sanitation, modern pharmacology and the social conscience, most of the children born with hereditary defects reach maturity and multiply their kind. Under the conditions now prevailing, every advance in medicine will tend to be offset by a corresponding advance in the survival rate of individuals cursed by some genetic insufficiency. In spite of new wonder drugs and better treatment (indeed, in a certain sense, precisely because of these things), the physical health of the general population will show no improvement, and may even deteriorate. "
aldous huxley brave new world revisited 1958

i would probably abort the pregnancy. sometimes i think there is too much emphasis on a single human lifeform. and i say lifeform because the majortiy of the abortion debate revolves around when a fetus can be called human. i don't believe that a fetus is human until late term, but there's no satisfactory way to debate that point. i tend to look at a bigger picture and remnove my own wants and desires from questions that carry implications for all of humanity.

that said, i have never been in this situation and may not actaully behave the according to my convictions - ahhh, the perils of being human...
 
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kswitch

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i also wanted to point out that we fight so hard to cure and eradicate cf, why consciously make a choice that perpetuates its existence??
 
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kswitch

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i also wanted to point out that we fight so hard to cure and eradicate cf, why consciously make a choice that perpetuates its existence??
 
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kswitch

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i also wanted to point out that we fight so hard to cure and eradicate cf, why consciously make a choice that perpetuates its existence??
 
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charl72

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No I wouldn't. I am a mum of a 3 year old beautiful little girl with CF, so my views are much different. I don't belief in abortion anyways. Feel free to ask me any questions though.<img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">
 
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charl72

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No I wouldn't. I am a mum of a 3 year old beautiful little girl with CF, so my views are much different. I don't belief in abortion anyways. Feel free to ask me any questions though.<img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">
 
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charl72

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No I wouldn't. I am a mum of a 3 year old beautiful little girl with CF, so my views are much different. I don't belief in abortion anyways. Feel free to ask me any questions though.<img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">
 
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