And perhaps we should also include that arch-proponent of abortion, Dr. Henry Morgenthaler. Nancy Morrison has been spared that, since the charge laid by the Crown was only one of manslaughter, where the penalty is not fixed - much to the chagrin of the local police. In each of those cases, however, because the killing was deliberate, the charge could well have been of murder in the first degree. The difficulty of the situation is that in all these cases, whether it is the killing of the unborn, the disabled, the depressed, the oppressor, or the terminally sick, convenience really does lie with the killer. When we value people on the basis of their value to us, we'll find that there are some people worth far more to us dead than alive.
Unwanted babies can be an awful drag.
So are disabled children. So are old folks, drawing pensions and eating up health care costs, when they might better be passing their wealth on to the younger generation that wants it and is itching to spend it. Pragmatism would say they were all best out of the way. Destroy the defective, or the unwanted, and we run the risk of destroying a Beethoven or a Helen Keller. So often, the struggle to overcome a handicap is what brings out greatness in a person as nothing else can.