Posted on 08/27/2024 11:27:47 PM PDT by Morgana
Sydney Anne Bennett, who goes by the name ‘The Annie Girl’ on social media, lives with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), which affects how her brain communicates with her central nervous system. She recently spoke out against the attacks she has faced for her decision to have a child.
On her website, Bennett explained, “I went from completely healthy to using a wheelchair most of the time in less than one year. It has been a long road of trusting in the Lord to get this far, but He is faithful. I hope I can encourage you here and give you more confidence, joy, and hope in your chronic illness or with your mobility aid. Your life isn’t over when you become disabled. I am living proof of that.”
On her Instagram account, Bennett shared that since having a baby, she has received discriminatory comments. “It’s 2024 and people are still not ready for a disabled woman to have a baby,” she wrote. She then shared a sampling of the horrific comments she has received.
“Have you tried protection?” asked one person.
“Not everyone has to have the right to have a child,” said another.
“Why would somebody in a wheelchair ‘make’ a disabled baby?” said a third.
The harsh, ignorant comments continued with:
“Did the baby come out w a wheelchair too?”
“Just why. Just imagine no disabled only abled.”
“If she really cared she would have adopted a child in need. But nope she has to prove to everyone she’s not a broken human nope she has prove she can be a mom to !!! … Disability Pregnancy PEAK narcissism.”
“Breed week stock get weak stock facts are facts”
“How dare you allow disabled to pass it onto a kid. you are sickeningly naive.”
“It’s just common sense. it is stupid honestly a form of abuse to bear children with chronic disability when you knew fully well they would also inherit it.”
“Poor baby”
“But why would you reproduce, knowing your condition?”
“This is wrong on so many level…”
“Worst childhood. That poor baby is in for a hellish life.”
“Honestly, disabled people shouldn’t be having kids.”
“Why make more disabled people”
“Humans are just selfish”
In response to these comments, Bennett wrote, “Some corrections to the things assumed here: My illness is not hereditary. My baby is not disabled. My disability is not passed on genetically. BUT ******It must be said*********I know MANY amazing parents with disabilities that have a possibility of being passed on. Some of their children share their disability and some don’t. They’re all amazing parents with wonderful children who have full and beautiful lives and who they love very much.”
She added that she and her husband “wanted to have a baby,” and that their daughter is “happy, deeply loved, and loves her life (and her mama’s wheelchair).” She noted that her husband loves and cares for both of them, and that she is “more than capable of caring for my daughter alone while he is at work.”
As previously reported by Live Action News, a recent report found that 31 states, plus Washington, D.C., still have laws allowing for the forced sterilization of people with disabilities.
“Forced sterilization laws are not an aberration – they are part of a larger, horrifying system that prevents disabled people from making basic decisions about their lives, their families, and their futures,” Ma’ayan Anafi, the author of the report, said in a statement. “These laws are part of a long history of state-sanctioned sterilizations and are rooted in false, paternalistic assumptions about disabled people. No judge, guardian, or politician should have the right to take away anyone’s fundamental right to decide whether to have children. It’s long overdue to fully transform this ruthless system.”
Individuals with disabilities still face discrimination and eugenic tactics, both inside and outside of the womb. Innocent preborn babies are targeted for death by abortion after receiving a prenatal diagnosis, because elite and able-bodied individuals wrongly believe these children are better off dead than living with a health condition or disability. However, if allowed to live, not diagnosed until after birth, or diagnosed later in life, people with health conditions and disabilities are often discriminated against in their efforts to live their lives and have families of their own, proving that our so-called “tolerant” society still has a long way to go in accepting people who are different.
If she were a lesbian or a trans-man, she would be celebrated.
These same people have no issue with breaking up the marriage for personal fulfillment, mothers bearing children with men who will not be around to raise the child (much less marry the mother).
I know of women who became wheelchair bound as a result of the child-bearing. Rare, but it happens. I also know families who were carriers of Cystic Fibrosis. Half their children got it. The world was a better place for their presence.
My mother helped out a friend who was bedridden with MS after childbirth, That happens too.
That talented leftie Woodie Guthrie died a horrible death from Huntington’s Disease. His son Arlo Guthrie had a 50% chance of inheriting it. He was lucky. I am glad both got to live the lives they did. I also do not begrudge Woodie his eight children.
At least she is realistic enough to have an able bodied husband in the house with the baby. Looking at that photo of the young mom in wheelchair with her toddler, it’s quite a nice pose, like something Norman Rockwell may have set up if his assignment was to paint A Different Kind of Madonna.
Truth is the “pro-choicers”” only support “their choices””...Go against those choices and this is how it ends up.....
The woman of course did nothing wrong. To the contrary. I’m sure she will raise a happy and well-adjusted child. God be with that mother.
But here’s the thing. When you post widely on social media, you will get sick comments from mentally ill people. You just will. It goes with the territory.
Post that you rescued a frightened puppy from drowning, and some people will say that you did a terrible thing.
Uh oh. Is she a straight white woman? That’s the greatest disability a woman can have.
But she, her husband and her baby are "out there" by her choice to use social media, likely as an income stream or two.
That's kind of the problem right there. Just do your life, Ms. Bennett. If you solicit attention on the interwebs, some - maybe a lot - will be negative. So just don't.
I’m sure the “I trust in the Lord” part was a major player to these liberal, atheist aholes
Truth^
If she has a capable husband then what is the problem?
Married couples have children and sometimes one of them is hurt in an accident which makes the other as primary care taker. At least the child has a loving mother and father.
My cuz has type-1. He had only one kid as his mom came down with it in her late 20’s.
Wow, people are mean.
Yes she would probably be a better mother that so many ‘normal’ mothers out there who abuse or neglect their child.
Seems to me that maybe the maggots posting crap about her aught not be the ones having children perhaps.
I suppose it’s no different than if she didn’t post, and people in her neighborhood would be griping about her behind her back- only difference maybe is that the cowards online and feel emboldened because they are anonymous
This must be what the RATS meant by a return to civility in the country when they stole the White House back in 2020.
There might be people in her neighborhood talking trash about her. She doesn’t hear it, though, unless they say it in earshot. And there are many fewer people in your real life than there are on the global interwebs.
Why is this someone else’s business?
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