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Canadian Doctors Group Worried Palin Example Will Lower Down's Abortion Rate
Life Site News ^ | 9/10/08 | Thad Baklinski

Posted on 09/10/2008 12:54:39 PM PDT by pissant

TORONTO, September 10, 2008 (LIfeSiteNews.com) - U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's loving and highly-publicized acceptance of her Down's syndrome child Trig has some Canadian doctors worried that her example may lead to mothers shunning abortion after diagnosis of Down's syndrome.

Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), told the Globe and Mail yesterday, "Palin's decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who may lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same."

"The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada," he said.

Under the facade of "freedom to choose", Lalonde said that "popular messages" about women like Palin, who chose not to kill their children "could have detrimental effects on women and their families."

"We offer the woman the choice. We try to be as unbiased as possible," Lalonde said. "We're coming down to a moral decision and we all know moral decisions are personal decisions."

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; downssyndrome; life; moralabsolutes; palin; trig
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Nice going, docs.
1 posted on 09/10/2008 12:54:39 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

So much for do no harm.


2 posted on 09/10/2008 12:56:36 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: pissant

Is this for real?


3 posted on 09/10/2008 12:57:25 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: pissant

These people would have fit right in with Hitler’s lot.


4 posted on 09/10/2008 12:57:29 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: pissant

All the more reason to keep their legs together then, I guess!


5 posted on 09/10/2008 12:57:38 PM PDT by midnightson (Mama-the ultimate prognosticator- said there'd be days like this.)
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To: pissant

To hell with the Hippocratic oath!


6 posted on 09/10/2008 12:58:31 PM PDT by twhitak
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To: pissant

Euthanasia. Appeasement. Abortion. Communism. Anarchy. Homosexuality.

Liberals love Life, don’t they?


7 posted on 09/10/2008 12:58:34 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn
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To: pissant

Why is it a “moral decision”, doc?

If it’s not a human, then there’s no moral dilema.

If it is a human, then there’s also no moral dilema, it’s WRONG to kill it.

If you don’t know, it’s STILL wrong to kill it.


8 posted on 09/10/2008 12:59:05 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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"The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada," he said.

The worry? Words fail me.

9 posted on 09/10/2008 12:59:23 PM PDT by Shelayne (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: pissant

These people are frickin fascists !


10 posted on 09/10/2008 12:59:44 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (Reagan conservatism is back ! .. Thank God for Sarah.)
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To: pissant

This is from The Onion, right?

Please ays it is.


11 posted on 09/10/2008 12:59:53 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: pissant

Sarah sure has a knack for drawing the ugliest beasts out from under their rocks.


12 posted on 09/10/2008 12:59:54 PM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: beaversmom

"60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime. Fellow Germans, that is your money, too. Read 'New People', the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the Nazi Party."

13 posted on 09/10/2008 1:00:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: JoJo Gunn

This is the only conclusion that can be arrived at if humans are an accident of evolution, alive for 70 years, and non-existant before or after that life.

However, if humans are created in the image of God with eternal existance, your conclusions are very different.


14 posted on 09/10/2008 1:00:53 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: dfwgator

Seig Heil, Canada!


15 posted on 09/10/2008 1:01:24 PM PDT by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us.")
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

evil, they are evil.


16 posted on 09/10/2008 1:01:37 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: pissant; wagglebee; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; ...
OFGS!!!

Are these people even human?


17 posted on 09/10/2008 1:02:14 PM PDT by fanfan (SCC:Canadians have constitutional protection to all opinions, as long as they are based on the facts)
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Why would doctors be worried about this? It seems to me that this is a choice each family facing such a situation would make privately after having received input from various sources and after having done their own research.
18 posted on 09/10/2008 1:02:50 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: pissant

Canadian “Aktion 14”.


19 posted on 09/10/2008 1:04:23 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: fanfan

Good Lord!!!


20 posted on 09/10/2008 1:04:26 PM PDT by Cheryllynn
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