Amen!
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It must take tremendous courage, tremendous humility, tremendous virtue; on the other hand, isn't a mother's job to deliver the baby she is carrying?
Tremendous courage is the minimum. Ergo...
The Slate article is absolutely fascinating because while it was written by somebody who ostensibly has command of the English language, it is absolutely fraught with contradictions.
It could be stated - not trivially, by the way - that she is merely whining that her son’s disability is too hard on her and she wishes she had killed him when she had the chance.
There is an obvious solution to this problem. If you don’t want a child with Tay-Sachs, you and your partner can be tested. If you’re both carriers, don’t risk it. Of course, that isn’t what she is arguing.
A good friend of mine fits into the category of one who should have been aborted, or subject to legal infanticide, based on this kind of Satanic logic.
She now has a PhD in microbiology, and is on the research faculty at McGill University. Her peer review articles set the groundwork for “smart bomb” type anti-cancer treatments.
“Amen” is right. :)
From Emily Rapp:
“Do I wish my child wouldn’t suffer, that it would have been better for him to have never been born than to watch him struggle to breathe? To know that he will never speak, walk, chew solid food, toddle, or move? Yes. One statement doesn’t cancel out the other.”
The difference between the two women is an infinite or eternal gap. You see, there is a soul in that little body and his totally pure, being of heart, soul, body, and mind is who God, his creator, sees and who we will meet someday.
Ronan’s body and disease are representative of the sin that we all have within ourselves. Do not misread this - I did not say he had sin, I said his disease represents our sin. We are blind, paralyzed and will die an eternal death if we do not cry out for God to save us.
Does Ronan need to cry out? For me, he is in God’s hands and God’s ways are higher than mine. A LOT higher. I just hope that someday his mom will come to have faith that we do have souls and that Jesus loves the little children.
“His quality of life is not mine to estimate”
Nor is it Zeke Emmanuel’s.
These people who want babies with disabilities to be aborted need to meet my grandson, and adopted grand-daughter (from the Ukraine.)
God bless my son and daughter in law!