The Lord bless and keep all three!
Doctors are body mechanics. That’s all. Their opinions outside of medicine have no more value than a welder’s or a waitresses’ or anyone’s.
In the early 1900, there was the BLACK STORK....Dr Harry Haiselden thought disabled children were happier dead...The nazis said the same thing ,only added more groups...Then euthanasia came in the picture and now, we have doctors “”condemning”” parents for giving their child a chance at life......
Christ would agree with the parents, and disagree with the doctor.
That’s the bottom line.
“It wasn’t me. It was the two armed doctor.”
Time for a new doctor!
"With scientific advances comes a societal expectation that one can have “the perfect life,” not just for one's self, but also for one's offspring. Thus extinguishing the imperfect life, at its earliest or later stages through physician-assisted suicide, becomes an accepted recourse."
Utilitarianism Impacting Care of those with Disabilities and those at Life's End
I’ve been blessed with two great personal physicians my entire life, but the vast majority I’ve interviewed for television are emotionally detached or, likely, autistic.
That doctor needs a smack upside the head, this child will have two perfectly-functioning exoskeletal arms before he is 18. Bank on it.
God bless that couple!
“You must think of the child. He will never be able to have a normal quality of life.”
This logic is so twisted. If we followed it to its logical conclusion, then we’d never amputate a limb to save a life. Just let them die. Their quality of life won’t be “normal” so they might as well be dead. Heck, you have macular degeneration? Kill ‘em. Diabetes? Into the gas chamber!
I like to thing God picked this angel’s parents for him.
Selfish? For keeping and raising a child with no arms???? WTF is wrong with that horrible doctor?
I had a coworker who has no arms. Going to lunch with him was amazing- he could use chopsticks with his toes, or hold a spoon and eat just fine, the man is as flexible as a snake. He even deer hunts- successfully- with a bow... holding the noch of the arrow in his teeth and the bow with his feet. The only thing he does go easy on is he chooses a location where he won’t have to pack out the carcass very far from where he parks his truck.
He also has a great sense of humor, I guess you have to have that.
Hendré is normal for Hendré. A more compassionate doctor would’ve simply advised them about what they were facing and kept his dark thoughts to his dark self.
I had a coworker who was born with no arms, due to a birth defect from that medication they used to give pregnant women to ease pain decades ago. He had no problem doing his job. Going to lunch with him was amazing- he could use chopsticks with his toes, or hold a spoon and eat just fine, the man is as flexible as a snake. He even deer hunts- successfully- with a bow... holding the noch of the arrow in his teeth and the bow with his feet. The only thing he does go easy on is he chooses a location where he won’t have to pack out the carcass very far from where he parks his truck.
He also has a great sense of humor, I guess you have to have that.
Well doc, maybe this person without arms will find a cure for a disease that you or someone in your family may suffer from.
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
- Ronald Reagan
The original story of 2-29-2000 from the AP was entitled:
Limbless college student defies Japan’s notion of disability
The above story was written later but it includes his popularity as a best selling author, “Nobody is Perfect”.
a prime time news anchor and sought after public speaker.
It is so inspiring - he joined the basketball team on his first day of middle school, stunning his parents.
“You alone decide if you are going to be happy”, Ototake said. He has done so much to change the Japanese perception of separate worlds for able bodied and disabled.