Posted on 04/17/2010 1:26:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
That is so sad, and a terrible abuse of IVF to ‘design’ the ‘perfect’ baby. With all of my IVFs I would have fallen on my knees and thanked God if I had gotten pregnant with a child with Down’s or any other ‘deformity’ (God, seeing that poor baby described as ‘deformed’ in the article just breaks my heart. :*( I know so many infertile couples who would have adopted that baby in a heartbeat. :*(
I once took care of a lady whose job was to take care of special needs children. She had a Downs baby, took one look and said “Take him away, put him up for adoption; I never want to see him again.”
I thought this was cruel because this person, of all persons, should be equipped to care for a Downs child.
She then told her family that the child was stillborn.
Actually, he was a beautiful and healthy child.
This act of unMotherly-ness left such a lasting impression on me as a nursing student.
Turns out, this woman was positively humane by comparison.
Sigh.
She killed the other one too.
Thank you! Waco isn’t too far from us, we are up here not far from Oklahoma border...howdy! Did you get a pic of your boys on the news? That’s neat to have seen them on Fox! :-)
No, no, no, no...they WANTED the healthy girl, so that one was a BABY. Since she was a BABY, she had legal rights to live.
The ‘deformed’ boy with Down’s was a FETUS. As a FETUS, he had NO legal rights, so he could be murdered.
There IS a big difference, d’oh
Why is that so hard to understand?!?!
/typical pro-’choice’ liberal meme off (their rockers!)
Here is a good resource site about Hitler’s campaign to rid Germany of “Useless Eaters” and “Lives Devoid of Value”:
http://www.toolan.com/hitler/index.html
Yes, but the test introduces a significant chance of spontaneous abortion.
From the above cited source:
The next step, towards the end of 1938 and the beginning of 1939, was publicly tested in Germany after endless discussions and propaganda moves. A letter addressed to Adolf Hitler written by a man called Knauer from Leipzig asked for permission for a doctor to shorten the life of his child who was born blind, seemed to be an idiot and had only parts of its arms and legs. The child itself was at this time at the Children’s Clinic in the University of Leipzig, which was headed by Professor Werner Catel, Professor for Neurology and Psychiatry at the same university.
At that time Catel was already an exponent of euthanasia and has remained one to this day which fact he acknowledged in his book “Border Situations of Life - Contribution to the Problem of a Limited Euthanasia”. it was Catel who made the suggestion to the father, or at least focused his attention in that direction, to write a letter to the Führer. As an answer to this letter, Hitler sent his physician, Professor Karl Brandt, to Leipzig and after consultations with Catel, put the child to sleep.
Several months later, Hitler signed a document authorising Dr. Karl Brandt and Reich-leader Philipp Bouhler to permit euthanasia in special cases. This authorisation was supposedly signed in October 1939, but was backdated to the beginning of September of the same year. The document was really nothing more than an authorisation and formulated in such a way that a doctor who truly felt bound to the Hippocratic Oath could interpret it in such a way that no-one would have to die. The “Führer-order” as it was generally called, had apparently come about after a lively discussion between Dr. Karl Brandt, Dr. Leonardo Conti and Philipp Bouhler and was as follows:
“Reichsleader Bouhler and Dr. Brandt M.D. are charged with the responsibility of enlarging the authority of certain physicians to be designated by name in such a manner that persons who according to human judgement can upon most careful diagnosis of their condition of sickness be accorded a mercy death.
Signed - A. Hitler”.
There will be a Judgment Day, don't worry.
That’s truly chilling. Without love of God and a relationship with Him, man is truly prone to the most vile, evil, I can’t even imagine.
Truly sick, what is wrong with people? Don’t they get it, it’s a person, not a choice.
Here are some links:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-euthanasia.htm
http://www.life.org.nz/euthanasia/abouteuthanasia/history-euthanasia6/
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/disabilities/
http://www.shoaheducation.com/t4.html
This article, “Useless Eaters” by Dr. Mark Mostert is the best that I have ever read on the subject:
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/text/2743414051_1.pdf
This is also an excellent site by Dr. Mostert:
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/
My dear Lord!
Thanks for finding that! I remember reading it, but didn’t have a link.
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