A Thought to Ponder
October 31, 2011
FITZGERALD writes:
The mother of Steve Jobs chose to put his sister and him up for adoption when they were infants. What if he had been aborted? Jobs had an enormously influential role in the creation and transformation of several industries. How many other potential innovators, business leaders, architects, and artists have met an untimely end in the womb? Is it any wonder our civilization is waning. We destroy it’s most important element in the scores every year: people.
Laura writes:
In this decision, his mother exercised her enormous power to shape the world.
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Katherine writes:
I have seen several mentions of the heroic act of Steve Jobs’ mother in putting him up for adoption. Certainly her choice has, as Fitzgerald says, “had an enormously influential role in the creation
and transformation of several industries.”
I do worry, though, about the consequentialist reasoning these items demonstrate.
Abortion — the deliberate killing of an unborn child — is still wrong, whether the child turns out to be Steve Jobs, Mother Teresa, or Jeffrey Dahmer.
Yes, of course, it is wonderful that Steve Jobs was allowed to be born and was adopted by loving parents. It is wonderful when any mother chooses life for her child. Any other choice is simply unthinkable.
Laura writes:
Agreed.
Actually, what I like most about this story is its reminder that there is an alternative to abortion for women unprepared for motherhood. It’s called adoption. Abortion supporters have succeeded in convincing people that the choice is between “safe,” legal abortion or back-alley abortions.
