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Originally Posted by dwanthny
If you thought this was propaganda then you look at the world through a very narrow lens, but to each his own.
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Warning - spoiler (but you'd probably already know this from reading the back cover - the Publishers Weekly summary mentions this - and from the previous book)
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Originally Posted by Orson Scott Card
He had to get his babies back. Whether they should ever have existed or not, they existed now, each with its own separate genetic identity, each very much alive. Until they were taken, they had been nothing to him but cells in a solution-all that mattered was the one that would be implanted [...], the one that would grow and become part of their family. But now they all mattered. Now they were all alive to him, because someone else had them, meant to use them.
He even regretted the ones that had been disposed of. Even if the test had been real [...] what right did he have to snuff out their genetic identity, just because he oh-so altruistically wanted to spare them the sorrow of [...]
Suddenly he realized what he was thinking. What it meant.
Sister Carlotta, you always wanted me to turn Christian-and not just Christian, Catholic. Well, here I am, thinking that as soon as sperm and egg combine, they're a human life, and it's wrong to harm them.
Well, I'm not Catholic, and it wasn't wrong to want children to grow up to have a full life [...]
Would Sister Carlotta condemn him for that? Had he committed a mortal sin?
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