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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How dare we as a society help provide care for children with special needs?  OP you are so right, all our SN kids should be aborted if known in utero and we should just kill those when we discover their SN later on in life.  Thanks, good to know you are such caring individual.  [/quote]

Many babies with microencephaly don't live and/or live very short painful lives.[/quote]

Actually many babies, children and teens do live those kinds of lives, but often they are not kept in public view.  So, while they are alive and well, we don't see them often out in public.  Who are you to decide if someone else's child has a right to live?  How do you know the government will pay for it?  We have done everything privately for our SN kid from schools to therapies.  When we tried to get into the public school they gave us a huge run and basically refused.  It wasn't worth spending the money on attorney fees vs. a private school.  So, should my child never have been born because you may not deem his life worthy as your child's?[/quote]

You're missing the point.  The PP is asking about who will pay for the children of families that can't afford the cost of the extra care.  No one is going to legislate that you *have* to abort a SN child.  But some people are trying to legislate that you cannot abort that child.  In that case, who burdens the cost?  And even if you leave aside abortion altogether, who burdens the cost?  In this country, thanks in large part to HRC, we have the ethic that children should be given healthcare regardless of their parents' financial circumstances.  How are we going to provide this care for these children?  Who is going to pay?  And if a parent can't afford the standard of care, what happens?  In general, we take medical neglect very seriously in the US (as, I think, we should).  But what if the neglect is due to inability to pay?[/quote]

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