A Sofa for a Daughter?

I read an article about a woman who was a surrogate mother, and after having discovered that the baby she was carrying would be born with major defects, the biological parents tried to force her to get an abortion. In response, someone else who read the article said, “'In this case of this baby, that's a tremendous financial burden and the lady signed a contract. The parents thought the baby wouldn't have a good quality of life. End of discussion. Abort. If you're renting out your body, you are real estate. No one would ask a house it's opinion about removing a sofa.'”

By this person's logic, since the baby would come with major medical costs, she didn't deserve to live. What baby isn't expensive? If every person who got pregnant aborted their baby because of the cost, there would be no babies left. A person's value is not based on the amount of money they have or don't have, nor is it based on the cost it will require to support them. When a man loses his job and has a hard time supporting his family, should he sacrifice his youngest child in order to make ends meet? Of course not! If an act wouldn't be moral doing it to person who has already been born, it is not moral to do it to someone who is not yet born.

This commenter also thought that since the surrogate mother agreed to carry someone else's baby, she had no say in whether or not she allowed someone to kill the baby she was carrying. I find this highly ironic, as the sayings are normally “women's rights” and “her body, her choice” when arguing pro-choice (obviously, it is not a woman's right to decide whether or not her baby deserves to live...and it's not her body that she is considering killing). So this commenter decided that even though this woman was carrying the baby, since she was not the biological mother, she had no right in deciding that the baby deserved to live. Only the biological parents' opinions mattered, according to this person – as they gave their opinion on the matter. All of this was said by this commenter without taking into consideration that abortion is murder and anyone who is aware of it should try to stop it from occurring.

They further continue their argument by calling the woman “real estate”, hereby declaring her inhuman in this case, so that what she thinks about this situation no longer matters. And then comes my favorite part: “'No one would ask a house it's opinion about removing a sofa.'” I have to agree with them here. I certainly wouldn't ask my house if I could remove a sofa from it or not. But here's the reason this line is so outlandish and ridiculous: a woman isn't a house, and a baby isn't a sofa. They are nothing alike. This is what I would like to call the Case of the House Who Had a Sofa for a Daughter. Since when is a woman a house and a baby a sofa? Never. Therefore, their argument is irrelevant. Someone could tear their sofa apart and ask their house for opinions all day long and it wouldn't bother me one bit...but when we start discussing the murder of a baby I will not be silent.

I cannot describe my horror over the way people commented on this article listing reasons why this girl (who was already born by the time this article was posted) should have been aborted. Whether it was for financial reasons, health reasons, or legal reasons, I was shocked and appalled by all the reasons they spent their time coming up with for why she shouldn't be alive. Is that what the world is coming to? Spending time coming up with reasons why a little girl with certain defects shouldn't be alive? Are the challenges she is already facing not enough? Is a person who is born 'normal' and then develops a cyst, heart problem, and deformities no longer allowed to live when this happens to them? Why should it be any different for an unborn baby? Don't let stereotypes and genetics tell you the worth of a child because it's just not true. That little girl has challenges just like everyone else in the world. That doesn't mean that she isn't or couldn't be happy. It's time we started supporting life – no matter the stage of life or the supposed condition of life the person has or will have. It's time we stopped calling women houses and babies sofas and faced the truth.

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