Babies with club feet aborted (England)

London Times ^ | 5/28/06 | Lois Rogers

[stinkerpot65]

[Boazo]

This is wonderful news, says Marcy Bloom.

[cpforlife.org]

A relative of mine was pregnant for the second or third time when her doc said that her baby would have a cleft pallet and that she should abort. To the "doc" it was no big deal.

She never considered aborting and the beautiful child is doing great. She's had the surgeries and as I understand will have no future complications.

It’s amazing how humans have become “product” that can be discarded if not just right and at the right time and under the right circumstances.

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[MHGinTN]

This 'modern' expedience mindset would probably have had me aborted, what with being the conception from a forced sexual act and then catching polio at age two ... of course, the polio thingy would have been hard for them to predict and take action to forestall in the womb, but just think how much they can prevent if we ever develop 'time viewing'! Besides, who to stop the onrush to go from offing the unborn alive little ones to offing the year olds with inconvenient defects? Such enlightenment!

[Farmer Dean]

I think a lot of these parents are worried that giving birth to a handicapped child will diminish their social status.Pretty sick society we live in,don't you think?

[technochick99]

Why haven't we heard any outrage from the Catholic Cardinals and Bishops?

You mean besides all of the pro-life work the Catholic Church does, and its advocacy in general against abortion? Good grief.

[cpdiii]

I believe that extra digits is a dominant gene. What a ridiculous reason to kill a child for.A stray cat adopted us. One night he was playing with a pencil and then picked it up with one paw. I was amazed and then looked at his paw closely. He had an extra digit on his paw and used it like a human uses his thumb. He was a great cat. I guess the mother cat should have aborted him!

[dfwgator]

There goes Lord Byron And Dudley Moore.

And Josef Goebbels.

[MHGinTN]

It's so clear now: to prevent wasting so much on prenatal tests and such, the medical 'profession' can just wait until the children are born, check them for the things the parents don't want in a child, and off them if something unwanted pops up in the first year. Think of the savings! Don't the champions of abortion on demand -the democrats- repeatedly claim abortion is for unwanted pregnancies? Why waste all that money doing prenatal tests? I wonder, Boxer and her coven are probably trying to think up ways of selling that very notion to the public don'tchaknow.

[fatima]

Here's a bump.

[VOA]

This should make the reading of Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage"
a bit more interesting for future generations.
When they find the protagonist has a club foot, they'll all say "what is that?".

[steel_resolve]

what in the hell is wrong with these parents?

[cpforlife.org]

You have that right.

And the enlightenment of sick "bioethicist" of Princeton Univ., Prof. Peter Singer would have suggested you be aborted two years after birth for polio. I think he believes that up to age 3 children aren't fully worthy of life and the folks can discard if the kid's "defective"

[Maeve]

Will England learn once her cities are burning and her fields and woods and rivers are ruined?

[mockingbyrd]

Troy Aikman and Kristi Yamaguchi both had clubed feet, I'm thinking they don't exact regret being born.

Judgment day will come and there are those who will have to answer to God, in the presence of the child(ren) they destroyed.

[Marie]

Wow. I had club feet as a baby- had to wear little casts the first 8 weeks of my life. To this day when I go jogging, my right foot still points outward at about 20 degrees. Other than this very minor affliction, I've had a full and very healthy life.

I was born with perfectly formed limbs and I still can't play sports. As for jogging... I do that when chased by something *really* dangerous! ;-)

My son was also born "perfect". Nine years later he developed Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease.

These people just don't get it. There are no guarantees with children. Your kid could be born perfect in every way then get his brains knocked out or his neck broken playing those beloved sports and spend the rest of his life sitting in a wheelchair. Or he could get a blood clot in his leg after a long flight and have a stroke.

Worse yet. He could grow up to become a real jerk! Honestly, I think mental and personality handicaps are much worse than any physical ones.

No. One becomes a parent once that child is conceived. Once you are a parent, you are bound to protect, nourish and teach that person with everything you have. Everything you do should be for the welfare of that child. Killing them is so rarely the best option that it's a safe bet that almost none of us will ever have to make that decision.

These people are simply so lazy that they meet every potential hurdle with a "lay down and die" attitude.

[LaineyDee]

Sickening is right.

I was informed my first born would likely have birth defects because of medication I'd had to take during the first trimester (I didn't know I was pregnant at the time). My ex suggested abortion... which horrified me.

My son did indeed have a birth defect.......4 congenital missing teeth. I gives me chills today...just to think of the wonderful life which would have been sacrificed on that altar of convenience....if I'd given in.

[garylmoore]

Heck, that's nothing. Babies get aborted in this country simply because their parents are Democrats.

In this country, abortion is birth control. They abort perfectly normal beautiful babies here.

[MarMema]

Great post Marie. Still working on getting the bentofiamine.
Many happy gluten-free days to your son!