Why is It that I get so inflamed each time I open the sunday times? this week, the news review supllement had an article on aborion. the odd thing is – and it drives me nuts to admit it – I find myself siding mostly with the anti-abortion Right in this debate. There are times when abortion is needed, no doubt aabout it, and a woman has an innate right to control her body, but what I object to most severely iss when kids are aborted because they have svere medical contions. some people have argued that it is “more humane” to abort such children rather than making them live life in a faultty body.

WTF? firstly, there is a very small gap between this and killing kids after birth, for ‘euthinasia’. this may have meant my own death, and that of those of my friends. sometimes,, in the evening especially, I get very tense and my body is almost uncontrollable. Objectively, this could be seen as ‘suffering’ (although the best cure is a trip to the beer cabinet). would the pro-choicers argue that it is more humane to lett me die? and what of my terminally ill friends, or those like Kirsty (see below). these people live good, happy lives, and are no less deserving of life than anyone else. I have written extensively on the fact that I hold these people in the hightest esteem. Thus, to say that it might be more humane to abort kids with medical conditions is utter bullshit.

Secondly, where does one draw the line. Some women chose to abort kids because they have things like cleft pallets. this is curable for crissake! just because a kid might be a little uglee doesnt mean it isnt a good kid! then what? aborrting al kids with anythhing other than blonde hair and blue eyes? thirdly, who the smeg are we to decide who lives and who dies? babies all grow into kids with the ability to chose, and they, I suspect, would chose to live.

there are, however, prooblems with tthe above. forcing a mother to carry a kid to term if she doesn’t want to would breach her human rights: the final say must lie with the mother. moreover, if a child, oncee born will live in an unnstable environment, e.g a broken home or with abusive parents, then abortion might be the best option.

so, which is it: a babies right to live or a womans right to chose. I want to side with the first, as I feel most strongly that aborting kids because they have disabilities is wrong. but then…….aaaaaarrgh! i give up.