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Massachusetts Democrat: the disabled cost too much to let them be born; Best to be sure to kill them before they have a budgetary impact.
Hotair ^ | 02/24/2023 | David Strom

Posted on 02/24/2023 7:45:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Michael Hugo, the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee, argued in a city council meeting that crisis pregnancy centers are a danger to the community because their screening might not catch a birth defect, the result of which would be the live birth of an expensive-to-care-for disabled child.

Best to be sure to kill them before they have a budgetary impact.

Hugo is not just the chair of the Democrats in this one town in Massachusetts, but the director of policy and government affairs for the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards.

Nice to know. If you are planning on getting medical care in the state, be aware that the medical boards are lobbying the government to kill off the disabled.

There are calls for his resignation from disability groups, and if they succeed in getting him to leave his party position or even his job as a policy director, he can always move to Canada where killing off the unwanted and expensive is official government policy already.

A local Democrat official in Massachusetts is facing calls to step down after complaining about the cost of special education for children with disabilities who are not aborted.

Michael Hugo, the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee, made the remarks during a city council meeting when discussing a proclamation about access to abortion and crisis pregnancy centers in the city. He said crisis pregnancy centers could misdiagnose a defect in a baby in the womb, leading to them being born and becoming a strain on a school budget. He issued a public apology after 10 days of backlash from members of his own party and parents of special needs children.

Misdiagnoses go both ways, of course. Planned Parenthood is so anxious to kill off babies that they have been known to recommend abortions for babies who turn out to be perfectly healthy. But killing babies is no big deal, so best to be sure.

Hugo has made the obligatory non-apology apology, ensuring the community that he meant no offense. He just wanted to be sure that everybody knew that letting babies live could be expensive, and the ROI might be negative.

Good to know.

In his public apology letter, Hugo called his comments “offensive and hurtful.”

“I am writing to offer my most sincere and humble apology to members of the Framingham Democratic Committee, but more especially my fellow members of Framingham’s disability family community, for comments that I made at the last City Council meeting which were offensive and hurtful,” he wrote.

He said members of the committee did not “see or review” his remarks despite being sent out the night before the meeting.

“Our fear is that if an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses a heart defect, an organ defect, spina bifida or an encephalopathic defect that becomes a very local issue because our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to children, who were born with the defect,” Hugo said at the Feb. 7 meeting.

Laura Green, a disability advocate in Framingham told Fox News that she does not accept his apology.

“I feel that it was generic and lackluster. I feel like after a statement like that is made, you can’t just pretend that it didn’t happen or take it back because it’s damaging to a community of people,” she said. “The disability community is the only minority group that you can become a part of at any time.”

Notice that the entire Democrat committee had been sent his remarks before he made them? He claims that nobody actually read them, and that is plausible as Democrats are like that. They probably just skimmed them to ensure he was all for killing kids. Who cares which ones, as long as enough die?

This is what happens once you abandon the belief that all human beings are made in the image of God and are uniquely valuable. The murder of the innocent is a natural consequence of the belief that one’s value as a human being is dependent upon being “wanted.”

Once you accept that human beings have no soul and no inherent value it is difficult to see how you don’t arrive at Hugo’s conclusion.

It would be comforting if Hugo were uniquely evil, but sadly he is not. He is probably just a normal, rational guy who believes that babies have to justify their existence by providing a good ROI. It’s the ideology that leads to this evil conclusion, not some defect in the soul.

At least I think that is the case.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: abortion; aktiont4; demonicrat; disabled; donatetofreerepublic; expense; sowhatdidhesay; unborn
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To: SeekAndFind

Could be Vermont or Maine, too. Vermont might be liberal, yet they do have a LIBERTARIAN streak, too. Public nudity (not sex) is fine...Brattleboro, decided to ban it after teens decided to moon The Vermonter.🤓


41 posted on 02/25/2023 5:41:35 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi.. Hello 2023, can we get over 2020 yet? )
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To: SeekAndFind

Do these people ever realize that THEY are responsible for making everyone a dependent of the state, & they should’ve foreseen that at some point the costs would be untenable? If they’d never implemented all of their welfare schemes, people would’ve relied on charity for assistance, & maybe some of our billionaires would be truly charitable in helping them instead of using all of their money for political ends.


42 posted on 02/25/2023 5:42:20 AM PST by Twotone
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To: 21twelve
Those Shriners Hospital commercials, especially the one when the kid said I can run, and showed his prostheses legs while running on a track.

I bet Mr Hugo never gave one cent to Shriners or St Jude's!!

43 posted on 02/25/2023 5:47:21 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi.. Hello 2023, can we get over 2020 yet? )
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To: rolling_stone

The wicked will fall into the trap which they have set for the just.


44 posted on 02/25/2023 6:38:32 AM PST by Repent and Believe (...unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. - Jesus (Luke 13:3))
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To: TonyM

Truth! 85% of Americans took the vax. That is holocaust level obedience without question.
Every vital industry has been stripped of the 15 percent.
They did this, with a Republican prez… so that’s pretty darn skillful.
Now they are cutting breasts and cheically castrating teens…b the same teens they say can’t smoke or drink alcohol can go on massive hormones and they openly dare us to stop them.
We won’t.
The power of mail in ballots and other covidian fraud was just an Overton window.
They are just getting warmed up.


45 posted on 02/25/2023 6:45:28 AM PST by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: momincombatboots

It is the same analog as putting a frog in a cold pan of water and slowly boiling it. Liberalism’s patron saint is incrementalism.


46 posted on 02/25/2023 7:08:51 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: SeekAndFind

Stephen Hawking.


47 posted on 02/25/2023 7:17:41 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("The News” is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them)
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To: SeekAndFind

Socialist medical care. It’s a simple trap. Everybody pays for anybody.
Then comes the trigger. Nobody has any rights to commit “budgetary impact.” Anybody who costs too much has committed a budgetary impact and is eligible to be abandoned, starved, neglected, cast adrift on an ice floe, processed or parted out as an organ donor.
You must be healthy (a productive taxpayer) to play.
It’s basically a sleek, modern version of Only The Strong Survive. Law of the jungle, “new!” (packaging).


48 posted on 02/25/2023 7:21:20 AM PST by Buttons12 ( Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Politicians are the only race that impoverish taxpayers. Hang them all.


49 posted on 02/25/2023 7:24:27 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Wouldn’t it be more cost effective for the taxpayers if mike and his ilk were to practice retroactive abortions and kill themselves?


50 posted on 02/25/2023 7:50:03 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I DARE him to stand up in front of the Board of Shriner’s Hospitals & make that statement.


51 posted on 02/25/2023 7:50:13 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: SeekAndFind

Abel-ist wants to raise Cain again.


52 posted on 02/25/2023 8:36:44 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Laura Green, a disability advocate in Framingham told Fox News that she does not accept his apology.

“I feel that it was generic and lackluster. I feel like after a statement like that is made, you can’t just pretend that it didn’t happen or take it back because it’s damaging to a community of people,” she said. “The disability community is the only minority group that you can become a part of at any time.”


Note that response of the “offended” .

Note what it doesn’t say, the honoring of life.


53 posted on 02/25/2023 9:02:43 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: simpson96

"Our unelected people from other lands
will remote view the in utero contents to predict
exactly which children must die in utero."

54 posted on 02/25/2023 9:06:24 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: LukeL

“(Lesen Sie)—NEUES VOLK”

(Read), “NEWEST PEOPLE”

60,000 Reich Marks

Wikipedia:

Infamous Neues Volk poster, c. 1937: “60,000 ℛℳ is what this person with a hereditary illness costs the people’s community in his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read Neues Volk. The monthly magazine of the Office of Racial Policy of the NSDAP.”[1][2]


55 posted on 02/25/2023 12:36:46 PM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

I was astonished to see the number of “immigrants” there 25 years ago.


56 posted on 02/25/2023 12:39:41 PM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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To: momincombatboots

Gee!

I’m a minority now.


57 posted on 02/25/2023 6:46:50 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Uncle Miltie

He was fine when he was born.


58 posted on 02/25/2023 6:47:23 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Does so

You should see what the transplants are trying to do to us now that they’ve discovered more than half the State’s population has forgotten (or never learned) our history.


59 posted on 02/25/2023 9:53:33 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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