[quote=@Andreyich] I am relatively pro-abortion in that I condemn it in the majority of cases but I'm not for banning it...[/quote]

Approximately my position as well. I mean "condemn" is a strong word -- I try not to judge ([i]try,[/i] I said), but I certainly don't [i]like[/i] it. I recognize that it's not my call to make. 

Anyway....

[quote=@POOHEAD189]That can't be real. 
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I mean the paper is real. There's nothing to suggest this is actually happening in the real world (I mean, not in a statistically significant way -- there are crazies who put babies in trash cans, but that's not the point). The article is talking about a real paper, which is gleefully sliding down that slippery slope we've been talking about since Roe v Wade. Possibly, I suppose, in the cynical pursuit of controversy, in which case I bought it hook line and sinker.

[quote=@Penny]I personally feel that terminating an infant after birth, barring some sort of encephalopathy or birth defect would be a violation of my Hippocratic oath. [/quote]

I guess this is the part where I play my disability card... let's play it gently. I mean.... there's an element of eugenics in this, right? That's not the [i]reason[/i] you (or anyone else, probably) might go along with it, not at all -- but that element is totally there, right? I mean someone, someday, would have to go compile a list of acceptable conditions under which a living baby can be legally murdered. ADD babies live, autistic babies get the axe, or whatever.  I don't think anybody anywhere wants to even think about that, let alone actually DO it. 

I'm gonna get off that point because this just jumped out at me (from a part of the article you quoted):

[quote][i] However, if a disease has not been detected during the pregnancy, if something went wrong during the delivery, or if economical, social or psychological circumstances change such that taking care of the offspring becomes an unbearable burden on someone, then people should be given the chance of not being forced to do something they cannot afford."[/i][/quote]

And what jumps out is, like.... [i]nothing else[/i] works that way. If you take out a loan for a car, and then your social or psychological circumstances change and the car becomes a burden, you still have to pay your car loan. If you go to school and major in lesbian dance theory, and the economic circumstances of society change [i]so drastically[/i] that lesbian dance theorists aren't making money (who could fathom such a dystopian world?), you still have to pay your student loans. But the author (apparently?) thinks that helpless little babies are a whole other story -- you can just whack them against a wall. Like what in the [i]fuck.[/i]