Posted on 09/07/2009 6:53:58 PM PDT by Scanian
Sarah Palin ignited a political firestorm when she worried that "death panels" would deny end-of-life treatment to her son with Down syndrome. In fact, ObamaCare would more likely see to it that people like Trig never even make it out of the womb.
The outlook for children found to have disabilities in utero is bleak now -- because the medical-ethics establishment has spent decades pushing for their abortion.
Thanks to advances in prenatal testing, it's now far easier to detect conditions like cystic fibrosis and spina bifida -- and our "best and brightest" overwhelmingly counsel parents to destroy the unborn child. It's estimated that about 90 percent of American babies with Down Syndrome are now aborted.
We're clearly on our way to the systematic elimination of "imperfect" people. And President Obama's "health-care reform" would get us there faster, by vastly expanding the government's influence over private health-care decisions.
Even without accounting for "the public option," the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Dems' health-care scheme would cause the number of non-elderly Americans relying on government for health care to spike from 40 million to 73 million. To offset this massive growth in government outlays, President Obama has pledged that bureaucrats will "bend the cost curve" by setting coverage rules and determining physician fees -- for everyone, even those not getting treated on the government's dime.
With finite resources, government has every incentive to keep heavy consumers of health care off the public insurance rolls. And it isn't hard to see where an unborn baby with a disability will land on the government's priority list.
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Perfect little Democraps only, please.
PUKE.
The Nazis would be proud of Obama and his “Master Race” agenda.
Isn’t this called eugenics -the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
Didn’t we fight a large war with a nation that pushed this point of view. It really gets bad when the “defect” is a racial characteristic where the politicians in power fill in the blanks.
“the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Dems’ health-care scheme would cause the number of non-elderly Americans relying on government for health care to spike from 40 million to 73 million.”
Inaccurate, I believe. The numbers may be right, but 33 million won’t be “relying on the government”, but forced by criminal law and taxes to buy health insurance or join HMOs. That is the point about this, Romneycare.
“To offset this massive growth in government outlays, President Obama has pledged that bureaucrats will “bend the cost curve” by setting coverage rules and determining physician fees — for everyone, even those not getting treated on the government’s dime.”
For everyone, good point. The new standards of health care will give private insurers a way to deny more care. A very important part of the bill, and a great reason the private sector is for the bill. They paid for it, after all.
Why don’t they clean house by applying the death penalty on the guilty (evildoers in jails), they cost us more money to maintain than the disabled.
I’m sure that whitey is not far off as part of the list of undesirables.
If you have enough sense to know how to use toilet paper you should know Obama’s health care program does not make any sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iO-lwamKgc&feature=channel_page
Death Culture bump.
I have a son, born in 1972; he’s a Down Syndrome child. He is having a fine life and just got married to a Down Syndrome woman in July. They’re very happy, but unfortunately, they love the lefties - her Mother virulently hates GW and feels the same about anyone with an R after their name.
With ObamaCare there will not only be no more weddings like this one, there will be no more brides or grooms like this.
What is new? My brother-in-law was in the army and when sis was pregnant, the doctor told her that the test showed some abnormality and when did she want to schedule the abortion? All in one breath.
She said no way, I’l love him anyway and today they have a very bright, healthy 11=year old.
How many other children have not been so fortunate?
Eugenics is so last century! It’s been rebranded as “bioethics.”
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
I guess they call it the “kill Trig” amendment.
ping.
I’m just trying to figure out how “controlled breeding” for human beings can *not* have perverted doctrines by its very nature.
and for you 45 and older-you’ve had a good run.
No costly replacement knees or hips or pacemakers for you.
Also, you will not be plugged in for treatment-I’m glad you understand.
Hope about a pill-they come in the most wonderful colors.
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