Stephen Wan's Thoughts on Importance of Motherhood Before and After Birth of a Baby:-
(1) Should we consider the prospect- physical and psychological, for healthy development of foetus either with or without true mother's love and care, and in case "without", any other options or means to remedy the situation with help and assistance such as adoption, with foster home care and love, or improved orphanage care?
(2) In other words, should priority on saving life of foetus be always the rule, and all pregnant women without physical health problem must not demand abortion? And let society take care of the baby afterwards if the mother really refuses to act as the baby's mother?
(3) There are fosterlings who have lost touch with true parents, yet leading very successful life and demonstrating respectable personhood. Their achievement may never compensate their feeling of loss without true parents' love, but they may also have to admit that their foster homes may also have provided excellent care and love that even true parents may not provide or be able to provide the same as nice and as lovely. From this perspective, motherhood is not the monopoly of true mother and may be available should there be well educated and very kind foster homes.
(4) While we should pity a pregnant woman who has lost her interest in the baby foetus, or who has become pregnant owing to some accidental unplanned reasons, we should be also open minded to accept that such a pregnant woman may also have totally lost the expected attitude, psychological preparation, and clear mindset commonly found with true motherhood. She may turn out to be a threat to the new born baby if abortion is disallowed. BUT how can we base on this potential risk to justify killing of the foetus and get rid of a future baby? If she really may become a threat to her own baby, she can be either temporarily or permanently separated from her own new born baby! It seems there should be no justifiable ground for anyone to help "bully" and kill the foetus, a true living entity?
(5) Therefore it may be essential and critical that scope, meaning and implication of true, lost, and foster motherhoods, should be identified, studied, and defined if we would like to ask whether it is right or wrong to adopt abortion.
所以有墮胎支持者試圖指出,胚胎在早期並未發展出作為人的特徵以至生命的特質,以此醫學觀點來說明早期胚胎不算是生命,從而推論早期墮胎並不算是殺害生命。此說正好反映以一己私利殺害無辜生命的不合理性難以被扭轉,對個體生命的尊重在道德以至倫理學上的地位,永遠放於最前列位置,甚至是一切人類文化的基石,什麼充份理由可以讓一位女仕在自身生命沒受到威脅下,可以凌駕這一切去奪取另一個體生命的生存權利?雖然不少人認為嬰兒的生命源於母體,但並沒有構成反駁以上論點的必然理據,相反並沒發現任何衝突的地方。
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