“Those improvements might never have been made if we had simply given up and sterilized those who carry the gene.”
I really must insert into this thread an observation. Carry_Okie and others, including myself, are rising the issue that with modern medical testing, a catastrophic genetic disease can usually be spotted long before birth.
There is another, and closely related issue, specifically that parents who deliberately birth children with genetic diseases usually ask, make that demand, that others pay for their child’s medical bills.
Why should I be billed for the raising of a child I neither fathered nor wanted? I
Is not such a tax in the same realm of oppression as taxing me for another religion which I do not believe in?
Had we not allowed government into medical charity, this issue would not exist.
Looks like the Founders were correct when they severely limited government.
Yes, but your other comments seem to indicate that you consider certain IQ scores or ethnicity to also be "catastrophic" genetic conditions.
There is another, and closely related issue, specifically that parents who deliberately birth children with genetic diseases usually ask, make that demand, that others pay for their child’s medical bills.
"Deliberately birth," what a clever euphemism for refusing to abort.
Do you actually have any documentation that such parents usually (e.g. more than 50% of the time) "demand" that others pay for their healthcare?
Why should I be billed for the raising of a child I neither fathered nor wanted?
Let me guess, you would pay to kill the child -- am I right?
Is not such a tax in the same realm of oppression as taxing me for another religion which I do not believe in?
Letting people live is taxing you for not believing in Judeo-Christian religious teachings?
For the better part of a century Christians have been paying to have your repugnant Darwinism taught in schools. Darwinism IS a religion and it originates in the depths of hell and it has been responsible for more deaths in the past century than all of the plagues, wars, famines, crimes and natural disasters in the history of the world combined. Americans spend billions paying for YOUR religion and it has caused nothing but death and misery.
Had we not allowed government into medical charity, this issue would not exist.
So, you're advocating a system where the poor are just left to die?
Looks like the Founders were correct when they severely limited government.
Founding Father John Adams was absolutely correct when he wrote the following:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Our Founding Fathers limited government in order to PROTECT the rights of man, Darwinism wants to take those rights away.
Please. Free Republic is as pro-God, pro-family, pro-liberty organization. We do not advocate or support forced sterilization. That’s a monstrously evil proposition.