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If a couple gives birth to a baby with a debilitating condition and dies after 6 weeks, that’s an additional baby death. If instead of having that baby, a couple gives birth to a healthy baby, it will likely survive into adulthood, meaning there’s one less baby death.

It sounds like you just take issue with abortion. That’s more of a you problem than a problem with quantifying baby deaths.

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This is an anecdotal example, isn’t it? What do people today abort for, after genetic diagnosis? Down-Syndrome and other markers with highly random and non-fatal outcomes.

I have no problem with abortion itself.




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