Bee: "Would you require a woman to carry an anencephalic baby to term?

In the case of the mentally handicapped women, they are born humans with thoughts, emotions, nervous systems which can feel pain and discomfort - they are persons"

Apparently you don't note anything odd about the juxtaposition of these two statements. It seems to me according to what you're saying that the only difference between the Mentally handicapped women and the anacephalic unborn baby in terms of a right to life is that the latter were lucky enough to make it into daylight.

If you read my previous posts you would already know that I am okay with abortion that is the result of medical procedures to save the mother's life. That is categorically not the same thing as abortion aimed only at ending the child's life when there is a normal and healthy pregnancy.

Would I charge a 12 or 16 year old with capital murder? I would be deeply empathetic with any girl stuck in such a situation. But if she asked my opinion, in would tell her that two wrongs don't make a right and deliberately ending the child's life in an otherwise healthy pregnancy would indeed be killing. Of course I wouldn't explain it so starkly or in so few words - the sitaution obviously requires more tact and loving expression. I would also assure her that if she wanted to keep it (and there was no danger to her health) I would do whatever I could to support her in that choice.

Can you explain how animals 'abandon' their fetuses???? Animals may spontaneously abort their fetuses, as do humans sometimes, but these are either born dead, or die soon after.
As you pointed out animals at least do not abandon their born offspring.

In fact as far as I know only humans kill their offspring BEFORE they are born. Which animals do that? And we are supposed to be more elevated than animals. Sigh.

As for giving miscarraiges Christain burail etc., check you PMs inbox.