What would you call abortion?
The parents are sick, selfcentered and selfish.
Nice way of describing the pro-life movement, I'm sure. /sarc
Deliberately choosing to inflict harm on the helpless and creating a dependent soul is an outrage. Any physician who assists and abets this is as sick as the parents.
Meanwhile, you have the courage to call "the parents..." "sick, selfcentered [sic] and selfish". Just don't hurt your arm patting yourself on the back the rest of today. Geez.
But IMHO, many disAbled people have not fully overcome the psychological issues involved with their disAbility, and as a defense mechanisms, they twist "I'm still okay, despute the disAbility" into "I'm okay because of the disAbility"...that is, using pride and defiance to overcome the pain.
I'm not a psychological professinal, but it seems so obvious to me and to many others who do have psychological/sociological training.
With the "right to privacy" and abortion rights and all, another issue arises...I'm curious if it is okay to lop off the legs of a fetus, or puncture its eardrum prior to birth. As the article points out, we are also having lots of ethical questions pop up around the level at which treatment is ok...if "below the arithmetic mean" is the only criterion for allowing human growth hormone use, why not allow it to anyone? Does that mean we can "supercharge" a fetus who is otherwise "normal"? Eventually, give it cybernetics? Etc.
What does abortion have to do with it?
Not sure I follow your "logic" with this small flame...
Apparently you are feeling its ok for parents to choose to deliberately have debilitaed children? You saying this is a good thing and everyone should allow them their choice?
Intentionally going out of your way to create one is barbaric.