Posted on 09/12/2011 4:22:41 PM PDT by wagglebee
It is used as an excuse to murder babies and nothing more.
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We ought to find out what syndrome Sybelius suffers from and outlaw it. She shouldn’t be allowed to run around loose without a heafty harness and maybe leg irons. Fur Shur she should be forcibly spayed.
Down Syndrome babies have a right to life, just like anyone else.
Thank God my mother didn’t think I was too much of an inconvenience!
do you mean splayed?
The Death Queen hasn’t a decent bone in her body.
The author is being far too kind. OF COURSE their goal is the abortion of children with Down's.
The Death Queen hasn’t a decent bone in her body.
Barry’s afraid he’d get out-debated by Trig Palin.
We simply need to make sure she doesn't reproduce. Her genome is obviously quite faulty.
Abortionists and their running dog lackeys really should never be thought of as HUMANS. NEVER. They are severely damaged. Sterilize them. Lock them up. Feed them once a day. That's all they need. They can live on their fantasies.
Omamacare=abort those babies by the obama workers of the world. Abort those Christian Babies because of the obamacare’s test. Bet there will be a lot of false-positives,SURPRISE.
Their ambition is to murder. Remember how they whooped and hollered when they got to execute Paul Hill? You’d have thought they had a dozen babies to slaughter at the time.
Abortionists and their running dog lackeys really should never be thought of as HUMANS. NEVER. They are severely damaged. Sterilize them. Lock them up. Feed them once a day. That’s all they need. They can live on their fantasies.
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You shouldn’t hate murderers. With hate, you are only one step away from murder.
i don’t hate them. They are actually NOT HUMAN.
They scared my daughter with a “possible down syndrome” diagnosis with her 5th child. Several ultrasounds later, it was determined that the babe was not downs. Pressing to find the reason for the “scare”, the reason that was given was that she had turned 35 years of age. Had she not opted to have the baby, downs or not, this lovely child would not be celebrating her 6th birthday next month.
Considering that he voted against the Illinois Born Alive Act, this doesn’t surprise me, but sickens me nevetheless.
I have to disagree with most of the comments, here, but I do so out of kindness to potential parents of a child with Down Syndrome.
To start with, having children isn’t easy. It is time consuming, expensive and very burdensome at the very least. Many people who have children can barely get by, and many fail in their efforts, resulting in uncounted tragedy.
Our culture and society has done its level best to make having children even harder than it is naturally. Laws and demands are placed on parents that have unquestionably lowered our national birthrate, because more and more parents cannot reach the bar at ever increasing heights.
Many have even given up on the hope of ever having children at all, as just beyond their modest lives. They fear bringing a child into this world that cannot be given what it needs, and may be left only a bitter life, full of deprivation and denial.
But into this mix is thrown a possibility. Many are the parents who will still try to have a child, if that child at least has a chance to lead a normal life. But these parents cannot abide any more burden given to them, and still succeed. They have just enough: just enough strength; just enough money; just enough spirit; and just enough of everything else they need to raise a child.
A normal child. But if anything really bad happens, something catastrophic, that adds so much more to the difficulty, they just cannot abide.
Out of every four human pregnancies, one typically ends in a miscarriage. Mostly because it is terribly hard to conceive and bear a *viable* child. Often miscarriage happens with a woman’s first child, solely because her body needs to do a “dry run”, before she can safely carry a child to term. Likewise, older parents also have a much harder time conceiving, and some may never be able to do so naturally, because their ovum and sperm are just not as good as they used to be.
And sometimes, for some reason, or just randomly, a fetus will have Down Syndrome. From that point, whether to carry that baby to term becomes a contest between the will of the parents, and the law of averages.
Yes, some Down Syndrome children, with a lot of help and love, are able to lead fairly normal lives. But the *average* Down Syndrome child will have an IQ of 50. Using the old description of mental capacity, this places them on the cusp between those called “imbeciles”, and those called “morons”.
A normal child has a timetable of 18 years before they are an adult, with the hope that they will be self-sufficient and go forth into the world to succeed or fail based on their hard work and intellect.
An “average” Down Syndrome child cannot do this. Instead, their parents will never see them live lives without supervision. By then, what if the government won’t pay for it? What if for the rest of their lives they will be caretakers, their time and money spent on care, not living lives with ease and pleasure, but endless work?
Some parents will take this chance. Most will not. They do not, and cannot see “life” at any cost worth living, or creating. If they cannot do what they can do to have a normal child, then they would rather not have any children.
They just do not have the strength, or the heart, to do that. And I cannot condemn them for this.
I see this issue a bit differently. Yes, the regulation stinks and we should oppose it. But more importantly, we should be working to convince mothers to reject genetic testing out of hand. Why? Because the information does little good.
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