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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorrie coey who wrote (76157)	3/25/2000 11:58:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

I have to take my son to the doctor today- we have found he may be blind in one eye- he may even have a tumor in his brain- I found a report buried in his chart at the doctor's office that the neurologist we went to recommended that we have brain imaging done. Now I love my son, probably more than I do my daughters, because he is wounded, but I would NEVER tell a woman to carry (for example) a defective fetus. I would have aborted a damaged fetus myself- because I think life is painful enough for the healthy, you don't need to be damaged from the start. Do I love my son less because he is damaged? No. But I see the ambiguity, I see how close he has come to breaking both me and my husband- crushing us under almost unbearable grief as each new defect comes to light. Even with normal children the pain can be almost unendurable at times- HOW could you force that on anyone? I don't know. It's mean. Abortion is ugly (to me) it is a bad thing, but forcing people to bend to your will, to breed at your behest when they do not wish to, to reach into their internal organs and say you MUST continue this- that makes me even sicker. Of course most people don't deal well with ambiguity. It's always tempting to run other people's lives in an effort to justify your own. But it isn't pretty is it?