{"id":6499,"date":"2022-04-25T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:10:01","slug":"better-to-not-be-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6499","title":{"rendered":"Better to not be born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cPoliticians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people. Here arguments for inconvenience and economic savings take precedence over arguments for human value and human life\u2026 Psychiatrists, social workers and doctors often argue for abortion on the basis that the child will grow up mentally and emotionally scarred. But who of us is complete? If incompleteness were the criteri(on) for taking life, we would all be dead. If you can justify abortion on the basis of emotional incompleteness, then your logic could also lead you to killing for other forms of incompleteness \u2014 blindness, crippleness, old age.\u201d<\/p>Jesse Jackson, January 1977<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There still exists a great disproportionality<\/a> of abortion of black children vs other races (even other minorities). Instead of providing the compassionate support we claim to want, we take the easy way out of death. To the point that some countries such as Iceland have no down syndrome children births<\/a>, and more black children in New York are aborted<\/a> than born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also miss out on great lives such as this Michel Petrucciani and other artists like him with a disability that would almost certainly be aborted today. Here’s some other famous celebrities that were almost aborted or advised to be aborted: Steve Jobs (unwanted pregnancy), Oprah WInfrey (teen mom), Tim Tebow (pregnancy complications), Pope John Paul II (mother advised to abort), Justin Bieber (teen mom), Jesse Jackson (pressured to abort), Jack Nicholson, Celine Dion, Cher, and many others<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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