lol abortion for genocide is more respectable than abortion for mercy. Yeah that makes sense.
They both only cost one human life.
You know, you're acting as if the child is forever caught in the grips of the parents, that they'll never be anything but an abused child, unable to do anything else in the world.
People overcome their childhood all the time.
And even after abortion was made legal, kids still got abused, still got told "I should have aborted you" straight to their face, still put up with misery, pain, suffering, and trauma.
And yes, childhood trauma does make you think about suicide now and then. But so do spoiled suburban children.
Instead of addressing the root problems of poverty, mental illness, drug abuse in homes, and the like, you're basically saying abortion is the only cure.
It's one of the things that make both sides of the argument contemptible.
One side says: "Oh, abortion should be used if the child might grow up in a damaged/broken home or might inflict undue hardship in the mother or if the mother doesn't want to accept the consequences!"
The other side says: "Make abortion illegal, but fuck them poor people, maybe they should stop breeding if they can't take care of the kids they have." which ignores a whole host of other issues.
Neither side wants to address the real problems: Addiction, poverty, mental illness.
To quote a great politician: Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.