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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Of course it never died, it just moves to different societies.
I remember when my sister was pregnant with her first, and the doctor said that there was a good chance that the Baby would be born with Down's and he started talking to her about aborting it.
She carried the baby to term and fortunately he was a perfect kid, but to an extent that discussion is eugenics.
The Chinese have been practicing sex based eugenics forever due to their limititation on number of kids, its not eugenics in its purest form but its an unintended side effect of family limitations.
To me the clear line in the sand is at birth, even though a part of me things that a fetus is a functional being far earlier then that, but it can't function outside of the mothers body.
But there is proof of brain activity beyond autonomic functions.
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You posted before my edit, but this is exactly the sort of circumstances I was talking about. I mean, would your sister have been morally culpable if they had decided that they weren't prepared to raise a severely disabled child? I don't think so.