Yes, Father, you nailed it: Despicable. Although one has to feel for -- and better still, help -- the couple with their high medical and caretaking bills, the idea that the second child's suffering would have been, in their attorney's word, "preventable" (through abortion), is indeed despicable. Abortion would have constituted an even more severe (yet out of sight) form of suffering for the child. May God bless and watch over both those children every day of their lives, and may God bring the gift of perspective and compassion to everyone involved in their care.
Yes, Father, you nailed it: Despicable. Although one has to feel for -- and better still, help -- the couple with their high medical and caretaking bills, the idea that the second child's suffering would have been, in their attorney's word, "preventable" (through abortion), is indeed despicable. Abortion would have constituted an even more severe (yet out of sight) form of suffering for the child. May God bless and watch over both those children every day of their lives, and may God bring the gift of perspective and compassion to everyone involved in their care.
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Didn't you get the memo, Father?
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I shouldn't have clicked the link. It made my stomach turn.
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