"People like me are endangered and now they want to make me extinct," Little People of America spokeswoman Leah Smith said in 2015 of the growth drug vosoritide.
Why not?
They have no problem hormonally altering children’s bodies to make them *transgender*.
Reality is insanity.
Typical, condemn children to shortened (no pun intended) lives with pain & limitations so you can feel you are not disabled.
People like this lady should be exposed for who they really are, bitter and vengeful souls who care not if others suffer.
I’ve heard (sorry!) the same argument from the deaf, claiming that cochlear implants giving hearing is somehow a bad thing—a threat to ‘deaf culture’. I’m old enough to remember seeing a video/film of a young woman hearing music for the first time. She started crying.
Too late for Mini Mike.
no one wants to make her extinct
no one demands she take it or change in any way she doesn’t want to
thismis offering choice to others to not have to live with an abnormal condition they do not wish to live with
no one mandates they take it either
and of course like anything medical its not offered for free so they really need to want it and put money towards it
Can you imagine a child with dwarfism knowing he could have been even a tad bit more fully grown but he was denied that chance?
It’s too late for Robert Reich, George Stephanopoulus and Chuck Todd...
I have a Downs’ brother-in-law, and I love him, and he is wonderful. That said, if there had been a cure, of course my mother-in-law would have given it to him. Besides being able to function more independently, he would have a healthier, longer life, and we would still love him, even if he were not quite so lovable.
Others are okay with finding Downs’ children in the womb and killing them. That’s another way to become “extinct”.
Please understand that as they can fix physical problems they will do so and this is not a bad thing.
Once upon a time there were many more blind people in the world then they discovered that by using silver nitrate drops they could reduce the incidents of children going blind.
These children were not made extinct, they were allowed to develop normally.
Prior to that these children ended up often abandon to die, turned into beggars or institutionalized.
Currently I am facing eye surgery so I will be able to continue to see. I do not see this as diminishing me as a person or making me extinct but as a normalization of my life.
I will be blunt if you do not want people to be made extinct a treatment will help prevent women being pressured to abort their babies because they might be a dwarf. Once you are aborted you are extinct.
Little persons have developmental biochemical reasons for their condition. The women is sadly a person who gets self worth by being an object of sympathy.
This reminds me of the deaf people who are opposed to cochlear hearing implants that allow the deaf to hear, some for the first time in their lives. Sheer insanity. Why wouldn’t someone want to be a normal height? I’m 6’ 2” and I can’t imagine wanting to be three or four feet tall.
What if a normal sized person took it?
A lot of dwarfism happens among the “plain” sects; amish, menonites, etc., because of in-breeding; marriage between too close of relatives. It sometimes includes six fingers on the hands. A thumb and five fingers, to be more precise. And, I once saw a man with six fingers on each hand, but of normal stature.
Only a height pimp would compare a cure for this affliction to a genocide.
https://youtu.be/p2zukteYbGQ?t=1621
Well, and what if we ever have to build a fleet of B-24s again. We used them at Willow Run in the factory to fit into small spaces for inspections and assembly.
What would be ethical would be to make the drug available to all who qualify to take it, so long as they really want to take it - and they are informed as to its effect, both physical and emotional. By the same token, those who do not wish to take this drug should, of course, not be forced to - nor should any people on either side of that decision be socially ostracized in any way because of the choice that they make.
The only unethical thing would be to deny the drug to someone who made an informed decision that they wanted to take it.
None of the above is moral or ethical rocket science - pretty much anyone should be able to come to the same conclusions without much hard work, because if WE were in that situation (and we might be for any number of diseases or conditions in the future, who knows?), we ourselves would want to have the right to make an informed choice.