Compelling Pro-Choice Story

This article doesn't directly say anything about Christianity, but it is related through the controversy of abortion. Sometimes there are gray areas in the argument or exceptions to abortion, like when the pregnancy is a result of rape, or when the pregnancy is life-threatening the mother. This is an interesting situation, where a pregnant woman named Danielle Deaver was having a premature baby, twenty weeks into the pregnancy, and she was told that her baby was going to die no matter what steps were taken. She decided to "terminate the pregnancy, rather than waiting for their daughter to be born naturally and suffer." However, "Nebraska recently enacted a new, stricter law that prevents abortions after the 20th week of gestation except in very specific situations where the mother's life is immediately in danger. Deaver's situation was outside the law, and there was nothing doctors could do to help her." The baby was born at only 1 lb. 10 oz. and "was physically perfect, but born too early to survive, even with medical help." The parents held her for fifteen minutes and watched her die.

What would be more painful? To watch the baby die in your arms or to know that your are the one who killed your baby (through abortion)? What is the correct moral action?

In the article's conclusion it reads: "She [Deaver] believes that no family should have to go through what they went through. The new law is based on research that shows that babies past 20 weeks' gestation can feel pain because their nerves are developed enough. But Deaver thinks that it doesn't take into account unusual and heart-wrenching situations like her own."

If the baby can feel pain during the abortion, how would you know as a mother that you would be saving it from suffering? How would you know which pain, that of the abortion or that of the natural death, would be worse? If it is only to lessen the mother's own pain, does that make her selfish?
Her argument is that abortion is the answer to all of the pain in the story. Is supporting medical research and development for premature babies instead of supporting abortion a realistic alternative?

Link to Article:  Nebraska Couple Watches Their Baby Die Because of New Law