I’m not arguing for the Mehtas’, neither against them. A lot of debate is already happening on how ethical it is, should the abortion laws change, etc etc. Here’s my fear – when the child is born, and if the child lives a reasonably normal life, what ‘mental’ trauma will she go through?

All this while everyone has been talking about the potential physical trauma of the child, and the mental/financial trauma for the parents. But won’t the knowledge and evidence of the fact that the parents actually wanted to kill her, play havoc on her mind? How unwanted will she feel? How lonely? And hence, how vulnerable?

But hey, don’t get me wrong here – I’m sure the Mehta’s are going through a lot of stress and in a way they are being fair to the unborn child. Mercy killing, in theory, is not such a bad thing. Abortion, at least in India, is allowed up to 20 weeks of conception – that is also killing in a way; and that’s always selfish, right? One aborts because she does not want that child. Period. What is so different here?

However coming back to the point, if such an ‘unwanted’ child is born, and later knows that she was unwanted, what does she go through…