Regarding "saving" children by aborting them/ Mercy Killing

Regarding saving children from abuse, neglect, disease, a handicap etc. by taking their life by abortion-------

By saying that one is saving children from tough family situations, and those who may be born with drug addictions or HIV or a handicap, you are also saying that these children are less human or less deserving of life than other quote normal babies.

Before we try to save those babies by killing them, maybe we should think of the beauty of their life, of the love of their friends, and their future impact on the world. Are the children with the above conditions who live outside of the womb, who are newborns, toddlers, teens, etc less worthy to live because their lives seem much harder than our own. How many of us can really say they should not be alive?

A tough family situation, a handicap, having HIV or a pre-natal addiction to drugs does not doom a person's life...Are we willing to tell all those people who have been born quote abnormal that they don't deserve to live or that their life is not as worthy or meaningful as our own?

That it would have been better that they hadn't been born? I believe those people would disagree. If only we all could look at other human beings no matter their race, health, sex, ability, etc. and say, You are a human being. I acknowledge that you are alive and that you have the same right to live as I have. Though I may not understand you, I respect you as a fellow human on this planet trying to overcome adversity just as I am, trying to find happiness just as I am, crying and laughing just as I am, and above all else and most importantly you are alive just as I am alive.

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