I really struggle with the logic of some things.
As I understand it, in terms of our current technology, a premature 24 week infant has an approximately 50% chance of survival if given the correct specialist medical care. But there is a 25% chance that those who survive will encounter some form of health complications during their lives. Now in such an instance there seems to be no question of allowing nature to take its course and simply leaving this child to die. The infant is viewed as fully human and such a course of action would be considered highly unethical.
Yet if the mother (and father?) decided at just on 24 weeks in a normal pregnancy that the child was not really wanted, it is seen as perfectly moral and ethical to proceed with an abortion and discard the ‘foetus’. It is considered as no more than some form of living organism, not yet human, and there is no moral or ethical problem in ending its existence.
So is there something extremely remarkable about the process of birth, or a C Section, than transforms an the infant from being a sub-human entity into a human within a matter of a few hours and suddenly produces a whole new set of ethical considerations which we are required to uphold?
The strange logic of a world that has lost its moral compass!
