No, it wasn't. The point is that some people think it's just fine to kill other people if they want to, whether the other people are unborn babies, babies after birth, handicapped adults, or infirm elderly people. There is no common ground between these people, and people such as Sarah Palin who think other people have as much right to live as herself.
(FReepers just can't help being persnickety about facts.)
As a grad student, I should know better. I was working off of emotion in my response, and hers was the first substantive example I could muster.
To your point, I agree that these people would do away with the infirm and the "different," but don't they look at history? Don't they research what Hitler's Germany was doing with eugenics and the mutilations they performed all "in the name of science?"
I saw a graphic on FR the other day from 1940's Germany that depicted the handicapped as a financial burden to society. If this health care plan passes, they're going to deny care to people who need it most. How the HELL does that make sense?
As a Catholic, I pay attention to what comes out of the Vatican, and I think the Pope was on the right track recently when he said that the drive for the almighty dollar is corrupting people. I am a free enterprise, Capitalist pig, but I agree that there are times when organizations do things with their money outside of the realm of common sense. If the government is in control of the purse strings, Down Syndrome children, those with birth defects, etc. will be denied service from day one. It will be a disqualifying malady. Then with abortion legal and gene therapies available due to embryonic stem-cell research, they'll force mothers to have abortions of children with those disqualifying maladies or force them to undergo gene therapy to fix them.
Then consider if they can make diseases such as Down Syndrome, Cancer, MD, MS, etc. into disqualifying maladies, how long until obesity, alcoholism, depression, bipolar disorder, various cancers, etc. are termed the same way? What then? What happens when the government says, "Nope, we've got too many boys in the country now, you'll have to abort or go through therapy to make the male fetus a female again.
Good God, what are we doing here, folks? We are tiptoeing through a forest of bad karma right now, and I fear the Devil is in the details, or in this analogy, the bushes lining the trail.