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My point is that I'm not talking of a future Beethoven, but a future human, which is guarenteed to move from potentiality to actuality if the abortion doesn't happen. And even if that child becomes the next Hitler they still have the value of a human life.
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It's hardly guaranteed. At least a quarter, if not more, of all pregnancies are naturally aborted anyway. I would go so far as to say that while successful gestation is the ideal, it is not normal.
Late-stage partial-birth abortions are almost always the removal of dead and/or deformed foetuses. Dr George Tiller, the late-term abortion doctor who was murdered in the States a year or two ago, performed this service and provided the emotional support for his patients, who frequently had to enter this clinic while being jeered at and egged by protesters on what is already the worse day of their lives.
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a couple were forced to bring their baby to term in Nebraska due to the broad abortion laws there, even though they knew that it would not have functional lungs. Their daughter was born alive and had exactly the life you would expect. The value of the lives of both parent and child were not considered by that law.