It’s very difficult to find data on pregnancies in 9 year olds, because guess what? It doesn’t happen very often. You can’t apply data from 10-14 year olds to 9 year olds or even 10 year olds - clearly there is a big difference between the body of a 10 year old and a 14 year old. We know that even for 14 year olds there is typically a 4-5 times increase in maternal mortality compared to 20 year olds (which must be a more appropriate age for comparison than all mothers).
Your current argument to justify the killing of two unborn babies is that the mother of the babies was in danger.
We have provided evidence that she was not in danger, you assert that she probably would have been in danger.
You do all this while totally ignoring the *medical fact *that if a mother is in danger, a C-section can be performed.
Since the little girl was *not *in danger, having been playing with other children and released from the first hospital, there was no need to take any action at that time.
Had danger become imminent, the doctors were prepared to perform a C-section *at any time. *Had the danger not become imminent until after the gestational age of the twins was sufficient to allow them to live, *all three *of the children involved could have survived, and since the mother was so far along in her pregnancy and doing so well, there was a good chance of that outcome occurring.
You are not looking at all the evidence, just picking and choosing what you will accept so as to bolster your argument that the abortion was justified on the basis of a danger to the young mother.
But your argument won’t sway us, because our stance is that *even if she had been in danger, *to perform an abortion would have been wrong. The mother’s life may have been saved, but at what cost? *For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? *(St Mark 8:36; St Matthew 16:26, St Luke 9:25)
Altho you call yourself some sort of Christian, you are not considering the matter from a Christian viewpoint, from a supernatural viewpoint. The issue of abortion is not connected solely with the mother. Those who procure or perform an abortion are committing a mortal sin and killing the life of grace in their souls in direct measure to their culpability. Any good done in the state of mortal sin has no impact on the supernatural world, and those who die in mortal sin spend their eternity in a state of acute discomfort.
… You have pointed out the fact that every argument he has is broken and all he had in the end was size or age, but in the end they fell too.