Posted by
Shogrensus on Friday, April 20, 2007 12:16:43 AM
When Rosie gets upset, she often doesn't know what she is saying:
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Rosie: But Elisabeth the baby is usually deformed or dead
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Doctors don't perform abortions on babies who are already dead. They may tell women the baby is going to die but that is an entirely different situation
As they go on, Rosie lets slip her ignorance about cleft lips by using a term that has been out of favor for a very long time - harelip:
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Elisabeth: If I were going to give birth and I knew that I was having a baby that was going to have a deformity or some sort of illness
Rosie: not a hare-lip, not a limb missing- severely
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I wonder if Rosie thinks about the slippery slope of deciding what is a disability that merits abortion?Some people may think a child with a cleft lip is severely disabled. Some people believe that abortion based on gender is reasonable- particularly in developing countries.
Has she thought about what would happen if scientists discovered a "gay" gene? What if parents could test their developing child and learn if the child carried a gene that indicated homosexuality? Would a parent who considered homosexuality a disability be justified in aborting the baby?
They go on:
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Elisabeth: It would not make me want to abort that child or believe that child doesn’t have the right to live
Rosie: but guess what- that’s your choice
Elisabeth: I am just saying me
Rosie: That’s your choice and every woman deserves that choice
BW: Nobody’s saying that you must or you should or you shouldn’t. What they are saying is- Choice
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I guess based on their arguments today, parents- or at least moms- who could learn if their child was gay would have every right to make that choice.