The priest yesterday during sermon touched on the topic of abortion. Mentioning quite vehemently that it was a devilish practice.
He went on to add, that people were killing children in the name of medical expedience, stating reasons like chances of physical or mental handicap.
Did'nt quite agree with him, since, I feel this is a decision that is best left to parents. After all it is their responsibility to bring up the child and expecting that their the child would grow upto be a healthy and normal human being would be every parents dream.
Going on those lines the knowledge that a baby is not properly developing should be a perfectly legitimate reason to discontinue a pregnancy if the medical situation warranted such a course.
One must remember that it is the advancement in medical technology which has enabled us to save many such infants who otherwise would not have been able to survive.But, their are instances wherein the deformity might be such as to leave the infant with either very little chances of survival or put the parents under tremendous financial burden attending to the cure. In such a situation should it not be the parents call what decision to take.
Last year the Nikheta Mehta case in brought this issue to the fore.
Wikipedia - Abortion Law
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