Rick Santorum, Meet My Son

Central Argument: Abortion should be something that the women should choose, as it has got the ability to prevent pain and unhappiness from some lives at the same time brings pain and sorrow in someone’s life.

Abortion, a deliberate termination of the baby has now been legalized in different parts of the World now.  Rick Santorum, meet my son by Emily Rapp is a true story in where Rapp’s child has got Tay-Sachs, a genetic disorder which possibly would kill the little child. Rapp regrets for giving life to Ronan, her son, rather than death in the first few weeks of his life. This type of killing would have been an “act of love.”(Rapp), is something that Rapp as a loving mother’s heart said about her own child. “Two years old, he is already blind, paralyzed, and increasingly non-responsive” (Rapp), would some mother want a child to be two and paralyzed, suffering from many other stuff? Or would a mother just be ideal to terminate the baby even before, the baby could feel something? I think the ideal situation in this case would be like Rapp’s own feelings. I personally think that the baby would have been better off without a painful life in this earth.

         “You should see how beautiful he is; you should see how he suffers, how his parents suffer.” (Rapp) This shows how much she adores her son yet wants and has regretted about something that would have been the best for her son Ronan.  She is in pain just by seeing her own son suffering extremely. I have seen a mother who went through tough time seeing her son suffer and finally leave her suffering son after two years of his life. And the pain just seems to be unbearable.  Likewise, not having the chance to abort Rapp’s baby left both the parents suffering along with the child. “Intense suffering, knowing that his neurologically devastated brain made true quality of life.”(Rapp) Has this situation made Rapp happy with her life? Not at all neither has is made anything happy for Ronan himself. If Rapp had decided to have an abortion almost three years back then, it would not have been the same, both the parent’s and the child’s life would have been much more easier. “Do I wish my child wouldn't suffer, that it would have been better for him to have never been born than to watch him struggle to breathe? To know that he will never speak, walk, chew solid food, toddle, or move? Yes. One statement doesn’t cancel out the other.” (rapp) This shows the remedy of her not aborting her child. It would have been much simpler if she had terminated Ronan’s life. 

         The choice that Rapp made about giving life to her son has left him be paralyzed, slow, blind and abnormal in many other ways, and that led to misery in the lives of Ronan’s mom and dad because of the suffering that their precious baby has been going through.