What Our Treatment Of Trig Palin Says About Us

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that in his own way, Trig Palin, too has made history in this election year: "Trig Paxson Van Palin - pronounced by his mother 'beautiful' and 'perfect' and applauded at center stage of the Republican convention - smashed the chromosomal barrier. And it was all the more moving for the innocence and indifference of this 4-month-old civil rights leader." ...

Gerson argues that by eliminating mentally and physically disabled people from the population through eugenic abortion “deformity and disability become more pronounced and less acceptable.” And society becomes less compassionate, less tolerant of disability and less inclusive.

If Gerson needs any evidence to back up his thesis, he can find it right on the WaPo’s own Website in the [reader] comments posted in response to a September 1 column by The Washington Post’s Colbert King following the revelation that Sarah Palin’s 17-year old daughter is pregnant. ... Keep in mind that the WaPo allows readers to report offensive comments, which suggests that none of them were offended enough by sentiments such as these to report them ...

To all you Democrats, you side with Death and inhumanity, you have a long tradition of it coursing down from Margaret Sanger ,Mao,Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Stalin , Beria, Lenin, your pedophile desert “prophet” sitting under a tree moving letters of insanity around a page, and farther back to the slithering around the tree in the first garden.

That's beautiful. I remember when, at the ripe old age of 36, I was expecting my first child. The "genetic counselor" took over an hour to explain the various chromosonal problems/deformities/disabilities my child, and therefore I, could/would be facing.

After her lovely monologue about the profound multiple disabilities my child was exposed to because I was such an "old" mom-to-be, I said "okay, thanks for the uplifting talk, are we through?" Although all my bloodwork came back a-ok and the ultrasound images looked a-ok, she advised me to get an amnio "just to make sure." When I said no to the amnio, she basically told me this was my only chance to know 100% if my baby had Down's Syndrome so then I would have time to "make my decision," that decision of course being whether to abort or continue my pregnancy. I told her I had already "made my decision" and would have and love and care for my child no matter what the circumstances.

I've read stats that say up to 80% of women whose tests come back positive for Down's Syndrome "choose" to abort. Very very sad.

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