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As a worshipper of “choice,” it is carved in stone that the decision must always rest exclusively in the hands of the mother.
If she chooses life over death? Left/right, Coke/Pepsi. What counts is the mother alone had the right to give the thumbs up for life or thumbs down for death and “happened” to pass on death,
The ethical quality of the decision—that she took the life of a helpless baby—is simply not worth discussing. Indeed, we never get to that point because what matter is that the woman made the decision. End of story.
The logic leading up to the conclusion of Dallas Schubert’s story, “Having a Severely Premature Baby Strengthened My Support for Every Woman’s Right to Choose,” is so counter-intuitive that I’ve re-read it again and again and again this morning, always with a sense of amazement.
