Would you have a baby with no arms / no legs?
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Anonymous
| My ten year old cousin has Downs. Reading these comments makes me wonder what some of you really think about her when you see her walking down the street. |
Anonymous
| I know myself well enough to recognize that I lack the mental health, financial and family resources to care for this child. |
Anonymous
And let's be clear - the Nazis, as agents of the STATE, did this. Same with involuntary sterilization - it was done by the government. That's very different than a woman and her family making a choice they believe is best for them. |
Anonymous
I think that her parents must be stronger than I am. |
Anonymous
+1 my best friend from elementary school is in that exact situation and that is exactly what I think. |
Anonymous
Comparing the state making decisions for families to families making decisions for their own families is ridiculous. |
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Missing both arms and legs, no. I do have a dear friend born without arms. He has managed very well. An attorney. Close to 70 now, so grew up before the computer age or age of the accommodating disabilities. Lives a pretty normal life, it just looks different. He had NO special accommodation going through school. No additional time granted, to write, holding a pencil between his toes! His penmanship is readable.
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Anonymous
In either case though, society is effectively rid of differentially-abled people. The end result is the same. |
Anonymous
I hope you're exaggerating. You can give birth to a perfect baby and they are guaranteed to have some kind of problem or challenge worse than missing a finger. |
Anonymous
| If the child were otherwise normal - just missing limbs I’d totally have them. There are so many things they can do with prosthetics now - the world is more accessible and accommodating than ever. |
Anonymous
What? |
Anonymous
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I wonder how many of you would opt for euthanasia (if it were available) if your child had a brain injury…as in brilliant Johnny took a bad fall from his bike, and his IQ drops from potential-Harvard lawyer to someone who can only have a simple job. I mean he won’t have the intellectual abilities of the limbless child (who we’ve already decided is a no-go). I guess what I’m trying to figure out is where will you be drawing the line? Hearing all this about what makes a child fit to live…Johnny is now going to use up financial resources that your second high IQ child could use for law school…do you really want to tell Sally no if Johnny’s highest career aspiration is to be a grocery bagger? I mean he costs a lot of money with no return on investment! The horror!
Really, this is how some of you sound. |
Anonymous
Same |
Anonymous
I likely would see a lovely child. That’s it. Due to my father’s career I was surrounded by children with various disabilities, syndromes, etc. We interacted them as we did with our own siblings. But, that wasn’t the question. I can see a child with Down’s syndrome and value them as a wonderful human with a soul and not want to contine a pregnancy with a child with Down’s syndrome. 2 things can be true at the same time. |
Anonymous
Most parents will care for a child if they develop disability later in life (ie after birth) and it will still be very hard. Just like we care for other family members who become disabled due to accident, genes or illness. Why would you bring a child into the world if they have severe disability? That is cruel. Unless you have so much money that you can ensure a great standard of living and care for them for the rest of their natural life. Do you care if they are sexually abused by their caregiver? Will you get their tubes tied or give them a vasectomy? Brilliant Johnny having an accident is terrible bad luck Severely disabled from birth Jenny has the bad luck of having cruel parents. |