And Something that Hasn't been Brought up

Birth defects. We haven't even touched on the issue of prenatal screening. So you'r pregnant, go in for routing check ups, and at one of you're visits, the doctor has bad news. You're child has a birth defect. Do you keep it, or terminate it? Many women, like my mother, wanted so very badly to get pregnant. My mom worked full time as a manager in a hospital at the time of her pregnancies with me and my sister. Had me or my sister been born with a birth defect, she wouldnt have been able to raise us and give us the 24/7 attention a child with birth defects needs. It just isn't in many people's budgets to stop working altogether to raised a handicapped child. My mom was lucky, and me and my sister were fine, but even with her and my dad's salaries, they would not have been able to take care of us past the 12 week pregancy leave. Knowing your child had a birth defect, would you keep it, knowing they would be completely dependant on you for the rest of their lives, or save the trouble and abort it?