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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I spent years advocating for people with disabilities but I also spent years in the criminal justice system and I think knowing how awful this world can be I would not personally want to bring a disabled child into it, because eventually I would not be there to protect them. Other people see the world differently and are more hopeful about human nature. I’m sorry that some people have made you feel bad about having your child but consider that they may not be coming from a place of judging your child as underserving of being here, but rather as terribly vulnerable. It’s certainly a more pessimistic outlook but it isn’t intended as cruelty to you they more likely feel sympathy for the anxiety you will no doubt carry all your life and more as you age and know your child will be at the mercy of strangers for years after you are gone.[/quote]

What on earth? So we're cool with eugenics when we're killing off people who are vulnerable? Have you given any thought to the huge numbers of nondisabled people who are "vulnerable"? [/quote]

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It's not eugenics to be a realist. Everyone should have their own choices and it's incredibly rude to remark on the choices of others (any which way), but pp is not wrong. Whatever one decides, having an honest approach to the lifelong challenges and realities persons with severe disabilities face, is needed. [/quote]

Disagree. What is eugenics if not rigid realism that only sees the child’s vulnerability and the potential burden on society. “It is better for the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing”- justice Holmes. The PP’s initial post that she would rather terminate than give birth to a vulnerable child who will be at the “mercy of strangers” expresses no different train of thought  than Holmes’. Either  way the solution is to rid society of … the potential for a certain type. You can’t pretend it’s altruism. That’s just moral cowardice.[/quote]

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