Morals.
Morals are weird things. I believe most people’s morals are entirely taken from which angle they’re viewing a situation from. For example, a lot of people will tell you that they are totally against abortion; when you tackle them about it they will either clam up or show that there are ’some’ circumstances under which they will change their mind.
A young mother with four children and one on the way develops leukaemia. The leukaemia treatment will kill or severely maim the child, by aborting the child she would save herself. To save the child she must refuse treatment and sacrifice her own life, there is no way she can be treated after the birth, that is if she makes it that far.
So, as that young mother do you chose to live and be able to bring up your children or do you let the child live with the knowledge that you could never bring it up nor could you guarantee that it’d live if you die before it’s fully developed.
I believe the only solution is to truly take every single case as it comes, never to judge from the other side of the gate and never to presume that you know everything about a situation.
Kind regards, Robert.
Tags: Morals, Philosophy
December 7th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Wow, that’s quite inspirational and eye-opening, and when you think more into these subjects, you notice how realistic and life-changing these type of questions can be.
It’s hard because you don’t really know a way around something like this, if you’re confronted with a decision of saving yourself, or saving the baby inside you who could possibly have a lot more years to live if you decide to go through with it, and by sacraficing yourself, you could be letting another new face into a world, and would die a better person in most minds.
But then you have the issue of the other children she has, and it’s so hard to decide which way you would prefer to go if you were in that situation.
And it’s just… rude to form an opinion on the majority of young mothers who abort just because they accidentally “caught” the pregnancy from someone they slept with after knowing them for 3 hours, and not considering the morally sane people who are hit with the choice of sacraficing themselves, or the young life that has been living and growing inside them for the past few months.
It’s too complicated to choose a side of best outcome in a situation like this, and it’s incredible how much you have to think into it to offer a decent opinion on something this sensitive.
I think some people don’t realise when they are saying they’re so against abortion, that there are people out there who sometimes don’t have a choice - leaving 4 children behind to save the life of their sibling, or killing the next child you have to give your children a fair upbringing…
Regards,
Ryan
December 7th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
My point was meant to be that nothing is quite as simple as it may look at first glance.
Kind regards, Robert.