Posted on 05/25/2011 4:11:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
It can only be described as eugenics, the entire culture of death is based on eugenics.
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My child was diagnosed in the womb with a 75% chance of Downes with just a blood test. I chose to not pursue any other tests because I said it didn’t make any difference. He is now a perfectly healthy 18 year old.
P.S. I should add he DID NOT have Downes.
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A guy I know has a Downes daughter. It’s not easy but it’s a blessing.
Purely informative. They can’t even be honest about their desire to kill all the less than “perfect” humans. They don’t want to admit their kinship with the Mater Race people.
Yet, I don't think that it's unreasonable for parents to desire to know during pregnancy that they will be having a special needs child.
I remember when our AFP test came back indicating an elevated risk for Down Syndrome for our oldest. The moron nurse midwife wrongly read the statistical result as an 80% chance of our son having Down. In that we'd previously been diagnosed years before as infertile, it was an especially difficult thing to hear.
We had no intention of killing our son. And we were pretty damned offended when it was suggested to us that we might wish to avail ourselves of that “choice.” Yet, we desired to learn all we could to take care of our child, and if he really had Down Syndrome, we wanted to find out, to start to learn and prepare. We also wanted time to prepare our families. We also would have likely searched out some sort of support group, because, you know, we were about to become first-time parents at a somewhat advanced age after many years of disappointment, and we were kind of shaky about being first-time parents even to a child born normal and healthy. We really, really needed the support if that's where things were going.
But if he didn't, we didn't want to spend months learning about something not relevant to caring for him. We didn't want to tell our families about the possibility. We didn't want to join support groups without knowing for sure what was going to happen.
We tested - he didn't have Down Syndrome. It turned out that the reading of the results by the nurse midwife was confused. It wasn't that he was 80% likely to have Down Syndrome, but rather that his risk was 80% greater than average. Instead of having a risk of about 1/3 of 1%, the risk was about a bit over 1/2 of 1%.
Well, our son was not born with Down Syndrome. If the initial test results had been handled properly, we wouldn't have done the additional testing.
But it isn't quite right to use a broad brush that everyone who wants to definitively know is thinking of killing their child.
There can be a legitimate desire for more and better knowledge.
This new test discussed in the article actually eliminates risk of a miscarriage. It can be a blessing. That many will use it for horrible evil does not mean everyone has that intention.
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**But the regime of prenatal testing for Down syndrome is exposed for the sham that it is when the double standard within prenatal testing is considered. In 2007, the same year that the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommended that all women be offered testing for Down syndrome, ACOG’s ethics committee issued an opinion finding that prenatal testing for sex selection was unethical. **
Forget the testing. God is in control.
You are proof of the double-edged sword of testing. May many other mothers have your courage.
Sorry but that's idiotic. Girls are healthy people, people with Down syndrome are not. If nothing else a person with Down syndrome cannot have children and carry a family line forward.
Females with Down Syndrome are not any more likely to be sterile than other women.
Men with Down Syndrome are almost always sterile (there have been two documented cases of men with Down Syndrome fathering children).
When Mrs SV was pregnant with our youngest the doctors asked if we wanted the genetic testing. We said no and they went ahead and ran the tests anyway. Later when the baby was due to be born via C-section they asked my wife at least 4 times if she wanted to have her tubes tied. Finally my very meek wife snapped at them that she had told them no and she wasn’t changing her mind.
Yes, I know the statistics. I wonder how much of a problem is caused by pro-life folks sort of “abandoning the field” of testing to the pro-aborts. This article, and many of the posts herein, betray an attitude of scorn toward anyone who has a felt need to get the testing done.
I wonder how many folks who are on the line about killing their unborn child could readily be persuaded not to, if only a pro-life person didn't heap scorn on them for wanting to test further.
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Prenatal testing for down’s is silly because even if you killed all of them, it would still appear in the population.
Prepare the gas for the untermenschen?
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