Posted on 07/22/2022 10:13:45 AM PDT by Morgana
In June, when the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, it was personal for me. As a man, I am not able to give birth, but as a person with a disability — I like to say a difference — and who is currently using in vitro fertilization to prevent passing my condition on to my children, my rights are under attack, too. The fight for abortion rights is my fight, too.
I was born with a medical condition called velocardiofacial syndrome. It is a partial deletion of Chromosome 22. The scientific name for VCFS is 22q11.2 deletion, and one in every 2,000 people has it. Most cases are not hereditary; however, there is a 50 percent chance that any child I have will be born with this syndrome.
I am now 40 years old. My wife and I are trying to have a baby. We have been through IVF twice with no success. We will be trying again. The reason we are trying IVF is because we do not want to bring a child into this world who has my syndrome.
Many fear IVF will be the next front in the abortion debate. But the possibility that IVF could become illegal is not the only reason I’m writing this. In fact, people with disabilities will be among those worst affected by abortion bans exactly because many of these people don’t have the resources to use IVF like I do — and for many of them, abortion is now illegal.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Chop your balls off instead of creating and murdering unborn babies then.
“...forced abortion of those with “genetic defects” mandatory...”
Then they might as well abort every child. We all have what can be considered some type of genetic defect. And they are slowly tying everything from diabetes to mental deficiencies to genes with more coming all the time. It’s a cross society has to bear.
If they don’t stop trying to call it hereditary, then the cockroaches will be the only thing left. Apparently, the keepers are worried about getting their share so they have to liquidate.
wy69
“Dad is dumb as dirt and wimpy as hell!”
I decided to look up velocardiofacial syndrome which this man has.
This is what first came up
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/health/v/vcfs
“VCFS includes many common features: cleft palate, heart defects and a characteristic facial appearance. Other common findings include minor learning problems and speech and feeding problems.”
Learning disabilities in one or more areas
So yes if one was to read this article he could be “dumb as dirt”.
I personally have a more nuanced view of abortion. I certainly don’t think it should be used as just another form of birth control as it is being done today. But there is the issue that most birth defects cannot be detected until like 4 months. There are some birth defects so severe and frightening that makes me wonder whether it might be more merciful to end the pregnancy in certain extreme cases. On the other hand many born with such birth defects would still choose life for themselves despite the hardship they face. So I’m rather torn on this issue, and don’t really have a strong position on these cases one way or another, and am more inclined to let the parents make that decision.
Some things are not meant to be.
Deal with it.
The better question would be: "If abortion had been legal when you were born, would it have been appropriate for your mother to have aborted you?"
In the secular world we live in, if we can accommodate more people than we disadvantage that is a win.
Certainly babies that have been born since the end of Roe would see things differently than you do.
At least you have choices. Murdered babies don’t.
He should be given a free lobotomy and snipped too.
They don’t have a counter where you can return your baby if you aren’t satisfied with her? I mean, the baby should be under warranty.
Well, GOD BLESS BOTH OF YOU!!!
“I think he wants to create a whole bunch of babies in a laboratory environment, sort through them while they are at the zygote stage, and kill the ones who are “genetically defective”.
I’m not a doctor, but IVF clinics do dispose of quite few embryos.
"kill" requires fewer syllables ...
IVF is not abortion and it’s that simple.
Projecting limits on abortion to the notion of IVF being disallowed is a straw man argument. It’s a phony argument trying not to protect IVF but to protect abortion.
Aaaand here they are:
(Ben died in 2014. He did not look well in this pic.)
I do! This is called “evolution in action”.
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