If it's flawed, kill it.
A. Liberal
That's correct, adoption.
I just found out a 14 year old friend of my son has died and then read this. Made me so sad.
My wife and I were told our daughter had trisomy 18 (or 21, I can't remember, but it was a death sentence and/or severe problems).
Pushed for tests, abortion, etc.
Months later, a perfectly healthy baby girl was born. No genetic problems.
How evil. Adoptive parents are available for children with much more severe disabilities than this condition.
By telling their stories, people like this are building support for the pro-life cause. The pro-abortion cause can't hide behind their "13-year-old victim of incestuous rape" scenario, when their followers are coming out with tales like this.
She didn't have a miscarriage. She murdered her baby.
this makes me seriously ill!
not a perfect child? oh let's just toss it and
try again! um, aren't we all a tad imperfect???
Well, I'm sure at least some of her family and/or friends who have read this article have figured out the truth now. If this was the right choice, why is she lying to her family and friends. Deep down, she knows she committed a deeply selfish act.
Well, good for you. You can soothe your conscience with a lie. It's just too bad for the precious little girl that God gave you that she wasn't quite perfect enough.
Some couples, like myself and my wife, aren't able to have any more children even though we desperately want to. We would have paid you to adopt your "defective" little girl. But you didn't even give anyone the chance to relieve you of the burden of your actions.
I can't imagine the pain this decision will bring you throughout your life and in the next.
This is disgusting. Why does the Left pride themselves on being pro-murder?
They sound like they're talking about a make and model of a car..
I guess she thinks that by publishing this sap, she makes her choice less morally offensive. Self-absorbed twits...
1. She blames the whole thing on her age. No indication that she could not have gotten pregnant earlier than the 7th year of marraige. Probably putting it off for career and financial security reasons (aka selfishness).
2. Those who demand a perfect kid do not understand what it means to love.
3. To write an essay about this indictes that the authoress is properly troubled by her choice to kill her imperfect child. I hope it nage and nags on her to the point that she eventually realizes the selfish error of her ways. That is the only way she will become healthy again.
There are those who will choose to raise that child. No excuse for killing him/her.
Besides, doctors have given dire predictions about the health of an unborn child before, and when born, the child was healthy or at least not nearly as handicapped as predicted.
I wish I had a written out copy on the web of the testimony I heard one day, from a woman who was pregnant with a baby who they discovered, late in pregnancy, was anecephalic (no higher brain, I think they simply have a brain stem). She gave the most incredibly moving testimony of continuing the pregnancy to term, delivering her baby and then holding her as she died. And then I read about a woman who is so selfish, she is willing to kill her child because she is not up to a less than perfect child? Amazing.
BTW I have a niece who has Downs. She is an incredible girl, she can read, she holds a job, finished high school. Certainly she will not be able to do what most children do, however she has certainly enriched the lives of everyone around her.
susie
If it's flawed, kill it.
A. Liberal
I hope they run a follow-up piece by Karla Homolka on how difficult but necessary it was for her to rape and kill her own sister.
Or maybe a peek into the troubled yet hopeful soul of Susan Smith?
Or perhaps some original verse by that tortured troubadour Charlie Manson?
A tear creeps down my cheek when I learn that her beautiful face will continue to look serene as the unexpected reality of what we cannot see, but what we are being told by the experts, sinks in. We go home and I quietly cry myself to sleep as my husband searches for more information on the internet. What we should do haunts us throughout the weekend and, of course, we don't want to discuss it with our friends, as it is such a private decision. I think about what I had always envisioned; she would bake cookies for her grandkids, take them for walks, read them stories. Most important, she would be there for me as I told her about my challenges as a mother. But our dream was not to be. On Monday, we drive to the address we have been given and the security guard carefully checks off our names, but won't let my husband go with me. There are other people waiting too, and I scan their faces for signs that they have struggled with their decision as we did. And then, so shortly after they took us into a clean, well-lighted room, it was all over, and I was free to leave, by myself. Several people ask me if I am OK as I leave, and assure me that they will take care of whatever paperwork may be required.
Alzheimers. What's a child to do when faced with the inconvenient and terrible impact it would have on our future?