Hartmann's brainstorming prompt C. is:
- What should be done about women who drink or use drugs when they are pregnant? Should their children be taken away from them by the courts? (If so, temporarily? Permanently?) Should the women be sent to prison or a treatment centre? Should the government stay out of this situation? Give reasons.
Before you read your classmates' ideas, I suggest you response write in sentences in a comment for five minutes. Then quickly read what your classmates have written, looking especially for ideas you disagree with, but also replying to expand ideas you agree with.
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Since, as we saw in Hartmann's first reading in chapter 7, alcohol has disastrous effects that permanently harm life for the babies born to mothers who use this drug, it would save much suffering and pain if their mothers were encouraged to abort them before birth.
ReplyDeleteAbortion, when done properly, harms no person, and has many benefits: it spares unprepared mothers from a burden they are not ready for, it prevents unwanted children from being born into lives of misery and suffering, it reduces costs on state welfare and social systems, and it lowers crime rates.
It would be better that women using drugs not become pregnant, but it they do, for the benefit of all, these women should be encouraged and supported to have abortions. This might pain them, and should not be forced, but at least explained as a rational and morally right choice, especially if they cannot stop their drug use during pregnancy.