It's a very emotive subject isn't it?
For me, in most cases, it's wrong. When a foetus is healthy I can see little justification in killing it, even in cases of rape. I know it's traumatic for the victim of a rape but it's rather more than traumatic for the innocent baby - and I can't reconcile the difference between a wanted baby and an unwanted foetus, the terminology changes depending on the circumstances, doesn't it?
A young woman I know had to have a termination of her first baby because scans revealed it had not developed a brain. She was devastated but it was the right thing to do because the child could not have survived and to go to full term would only have prolonged the agony.
I know another woman who had a termination because the baby was "inconvenient". I'm sorry to offend some of you but I couldn't see how that was different to murdering a new-born because it's in the way.
My own youngest child was "inconvenient". I had a 12 year old and a 10 year old when I became pregnant with her and I had just gone back to my Civil Service career. At that time, 1975, it was very difficult to be the working mother of a very small child and I really didn't want 3 children. I went through a couple of weeks of despair and I did think about termination, briefly, then I realised that this was as much my child, and my husband's, as the other 2 were and it wasn't just a collection of cells, it was a baby. Well - it's just had its 31st birthday. It's a warm, loving young woman that drives me mad at times but without whom the world would be a poorer place and it's the mother of my beautiful granddaughter.
Incidentally - I was an "accident" too.
