Ah, we are going around in circles..

I think I still haven’t got the message across.

My points are..

My mother almost chose not to have me.

Her uncle who is a doctor agreed with her. She had the full support of the medical community and her family. If it wasn’t for a second opionin, I wouldn’t have been born. And I went through enough abuses over the years for that mistake.

My point as it was in the beginning and till now is..who would have fought for my rights to be born? All except my grandfather thought about my mother’s needs, not mine. ( And then he died two days before my birth and left me with further burden, valliappantey thalem kondupoyi!)

The one person who has the right to save me also had  the right to kill me.. but I still had no right..My right only came after I was born. But I had a heartbeat at 6 weeks. I was alive for all intent and purpose. But still, I had no right..

It is that “right”, my right..the right of all unborn children..that is the point here..Society took away that right by saying

It is woman’s body, she has the right. ( as you can see from the previous comments, that isn’t true)

A child shouldn’t be brought in to the world to be abused ( millions of children are still abused who were born in to ‘normal’ family. I am not saying that we need to add one more child to that list, but to say that there is a chance the child get abused, so let us get rid off it is ridiculous. What if the mother loved her child and didn’t abuse the child)

Disability ( we will go to the end of the world to take care of our children who were born healthy and has some major illness, every western country has efficient health care system and a very good support system. The advance in medicine and education means that, there are options for disabled children to live a very fruitful life.)

Mother is not ready ( No mother is ever ready..it is a learning process..and if she really can’t handle her baby, there is always adoption)

Adoption and abuses ( I think it really is insulting to all the parents out there who has adopted a child to assume that they abuse their children. Abuse isn’t a territory of the adopted/childen in care homes. Abuses happen in ‘real’ families too. But since one can’t visit all the normal  homes and do a study, the statistics of abuse will always skew towards the ones who can be checked.)

Foetus isn’t a baby ( difference between a baby and a foetus is dependent on the mother. If she really wanted the baby, she will ask the doctor to save her baby at any costs, if she didn’t want it, it becomes a mass of tissues that should be removed. But it is still the same thing )

And to wrap it again..the right you so much want to give the mother takes away the right of the little person that is growing in her womb because of the reasons given above. I am only asking, who will fight  for the right of the little person? Why is the rights only given to those who can voice their concerns?

Before you comment, Please understand, it isn’t about winning or losing an argument..it is really about my right to be born..that who would have fought for my right to be born? Society, law, doctors all grant the mother to make that choice..that was my point..abortion isn’t a god given right to the mother because there really is a person growing in her womb..though it  gets called various names like a foetus or baby or mass of tissues..But it is still a person..and that person has a right to live. That right was taken away from that person by the same person who chose to have sex and conceive.

I don’t know how many of you would have heard of Eli Reimer

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/downs-syndrome-boy-sets-everest-record/story-e6frfq80-1226612061741

As medicine gets more advanced, it will become much easier to identify foetus with disability without using invasive methods. Designer babies are already a trend. Eventually we will live in a perfect world where we can pick the colour of the babies eyes to the required IQ levels. That is what Hitler hoped to achieve. Perfect world with superior race.. Children like Eli Reimer will not get a chance to be born..and there will be no one to fight for their right to be born.

As a doctor, I follow the declaration of Geneva to be my guideline ( it has been amended many times, but I like the original version better because at the time it was written it was meant not to ever let Hitler’s atrocities happen again)

At the time of being admitted as a Member of the medical profession:

• I solemnly pledge to consecrate my life to the service of humanity
• I will give to my teachers the respect and gratitude which is their due;
• I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity;
• The health and life of my patient will be my first consideration;
• I will respect the secrets which are confided in me;
• I will maintain by all means in my power, the honor and the noble traditions of the medical profession;
• My colleagues will be my brothers
• I will not permit considerations of religion, nationality, race, party politics or social standing to intervene between my duty and my patient;
• I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of its conception, even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity;
• I make these promises solemnly, freely and upon my honor.

The last but one point has always been my moral compass.