It seems that the argument I hear most often supporting abortion is the "it's better for a child to never be born than to be raised in a poor family/family that doesn't want them."
It always struck me as odd, but I never really spent the time to think about why that was. Now I know.
I've known a lot of people who were unwanted or even abandoned by their parents. They don't wish they'd never been born. In fact, if they did wish that we'd diagnose them with depression. If they wanted to kill themselves to rectify their mother's "mistake" we'd have them admitted to a psychiatric floor at the local hospital.
So it seems odd to me that we find it acceptable (and some would say applaudable) to decide for them whether or not we think they'd have a life worth living.
After all, we despise it when other people do that to us, don't we?
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