If killing your baby was acceptable, would more women do it?

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AndersHoveland

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In our society, abortion has become a relatively common practice, leading many to believe abortion must not be so bad. But just because something has become legally acceptable does not always mean it is okay. Abortion has become so common place that even many young Christian women, who believe abortion is wrong, have still had an abortion. But is this just because abortion has become so common place, and in many social circles seen as no big deal? It must be quite a temptation when for-profit abortion clinics are so readily accessable, and there are no legal consequences. It makes me wonder...

If killing you baby (that has already been born) was culturally and legally acceptable, just like how abortion is now, do you think droves of women would be having their infants aborted?
What if there was some place where desperate women could permanently drop off their babies for termination? Perhaps anonymously, just drop the baby down a chute for processing and disposal.


Many countries already have baby "drop boxes" at hospitals, where unwanted babies can be anonymously dropped off.

Type in "Japanese baby drop box service abused" into an internet search. There was a father in Japan who took is his 3-year-old son to a hospital, picked him up, and put him into one of these drop boxes to get rid of him.
 

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I think possibly that more women would do it if it was morally acceptable. However, it has never been morally acceptable and never will be morally acceptable. It is intrinsically evil and can and will send a person to Hell if they commit the sin with full consent of the will and full knowledge that the sin is gravely sinful.
 
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Infanticide has been accepted since ancient times. I don't think that most Americans want to think about this possibility, as it is so far from our value system. Hopefully it stays that way, and we will realize the immorality of abortion too.

A great article with lots of sources is below.

MORAN, DIANNE R.. "Infanticide." Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 21 Jun. 2013 <encyclopedia.com>.
 
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