Babies with club feet aborted (England)

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

[MarMema]

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"

I think it was up to age 18 months, but hey, all you had to do was not like the kid much in order to turn it in to one of his centers.

[MarMema]

Btw, I worked with a physician who spent oodles to adopt a little boy with two club feet from South Korea.

[MarMema]

wesley is on it, as usual, here

"Now, according to The Sunday Times, doctors are performing late term abortions because of minor anomalies that could be surgically corrected, such as having club feet. Last year a baby was aborted at the 28th week because imaging showed it had a cleft palate! Apparently doctors are pushing this eugenic agenda. Those who pooh-pooh slippery slopes, take heed. Meanwhile, as noted earlier here, the UK now permits eugenic embryo selection based on a genetic propensity to adult onset cancer."

I feel like weeping over this news. The culture of death creeps steadily onward and the victims are the usual - the unborn, handicapped, and elderly. The evil one is alive and well.

[geopyg]

I was born with a severe club foot 46 years ago - the doctor told my folks he didn't think I would have normal use of it ever.

I did - although as a kid I remember getting teased for having to wear "hard shoes" when everyone else was wearing sneakers!

I ended up taking 5th in state in Minnesota for cross-country skiing when I was a senior. Okay - it wasn't soccer ;)

[Yaelle]

BTW, I am not opposed to prenatal testing. It could give a family time to pray, seek help, etc. for a condition the child will have. I've done it each time, but I would never not let my baby live, even if something awful were discovered.

[Brian Allen]

<< It’s amazing how humans have become “product” that can be discarded if not (absolutely perfect) .... >>

Can (Almost) imagine discarding the montrous bastards who dare call themselves "doctors" in these instances, though.

[Lindykim]

The socialist/secular humanist "mental health" industry here in the US has already deemed Conservatism as something on the order of a 'serious handicap."
It just remains for them to declare that they've "discovered" the means for determining this 'handicap' while in utero.

Sound farfetched? Not in this increasingly insane world we're living in, imo.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

And people can't understand why God allows terrible things to happen in this world.

[dpa5923]

You should read the post again.

Would be more pleased if all the said babies were black or Jewish.

nothingnew was referring to the aborted children.

[MarMema]

[SuziQ]

This IS sickening!! Our first baby was born with a minor form of club foot. It just took him wearing a cast for four weeks, then another cast for 3 weeks and it was just fine! He was born in mid-October, and we had the cast put on in early December. The doctor wondered if I might be hesitant to put it on since we were taking the baby home for a family visit over Christmas and for his Baptism. He thought I might not want to have it on and have the family see it. I told him I didn't care what the family said, I wanted the foot straightened while it was more malleable!

Of course the family had the running jokes "What did you do, throw him down the stairs?" But they all knew that it was good that he had the cast done so early, and everyone signed it, of course. When that first one was cut off, I asked the Doc to cut it in such a way that most of the signatures would be preserved. We still have it, 26 years later, and his foot is just fine!

[little jeremiah]

Right, I forgot about my "mental defects". Those are enough to mandage forced medication if we keep going down this path.

[auzerais]

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

James Taranto often writes that the Democrats' use of abortion as birth control is seriously diminishing their ranks as their own replacement voters disappear in the trash can.
That's probably why they are so keen to resupply their voting ranks with illegal immigrants (who btw are also prodigious reproducers).

[auzerais]

World New Tonight on ABCNews profiled an inspiring young man last Friday 5/26/06 on its PersonOfWeek segment (sorry ABCNews has not yet posted the profile on its website as of this writing) but who is presently IIRC the NCAA State wrestling champion -- even though he was born with ONE LEG.

I would sincerely hope that someone would email those families and doctors and fwd this story.

[auzerais]

Anthony Robles who was born with one leg and is now the Ariz State HS Wrestling Champion was ABCNews' Person of the Week last Friday. He doesn't see himself as disabled at all.

I'm sure he would probably be livid to hear of children being aborted due to a club foot.

[syriacus]

But can he play soccer? This is the crucial question.

Mia Hamm, Best Women's Soccer Player in the World, had a partial club foot.

Kristi Yamaguchi, 1992 Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medalist had club foot and wore casts and foot braces for her first two years.

Troy Aikman, Dallas Cowboys Quarterback and two-time Super Bowl champion, had a mild form of club foot.

Celebrities with Clubfoot

Others...Dudley Moore, Damon Wayans

[Das Outsider]

I think it was up to age 18 months, but hey, all you had to do was not like the kid much in order to turn it in to one of his centers.

The three year cutoff date is originally from Steven Pinker, not Peter Singer. Both regard handicapped children as being less human--thus less worthy of life--than young chimpanzees. Neither are considered fringe kooks; one is a professor at Princeton, the other at MIT.

Who said ideas don't have consequences?

[Das Outsider]

Mia Hamm, Best Women's Soccer Player in the World, had a partial club foot...

Wow, there are a lot of them!

Can I just shirk any pretense of tact and diplomacy and say that abortioneers are little more than Satanic marionettes?

[Marie]

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