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To: Tirian
I believe that the American public, to one degree or another, holds that disabled people are better off dead.

Bingo.

I often tell pro-aborts that, since they believe that some unborn children would be better off dead rather than being born with Downs Syndrome or being born into a life of poverty, they should murder all those living lives of poverty or living with Downs Syndrome.

Unfortunately, it looks like they now are.

24 posted on 03/29/2005 7:18:56 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
I often tell pro-aborts that, since they believe that some unborn children would be better off dead rather than being born with Downs Syndrome or being born into a life of poverty, they should murder all those living lives of poverty or living with Downs Syndrome.

A man was born in the 1800s in Germany. When he emmigrated to the US before the turn of the century, he almost was turned away because he was 4 foot 3 inches, humpbacked, and his face was swollen from an illness.

This man was Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the man who unleashed the power of alternating current and made the electrical age we live in possible, truly revolutionizing the modern world. He held over 200 patents at the time of his death.

I read his story as a child and it has stuck with me ever since. The notion that physical perfection is required for a worthwhile life is betrayed by his story, and the stories of people like Stephen Hawking, Christy Brown, John Merrick, and numerous others. More than that, who knows what greatness such adversity can breed? The eugenics movement may be destroying the very qualities that can raise the quality of human culture.

33 posted on 03/29/2005 7:48:35 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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