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Eugenic Abortion 2.0 - A new blood test could zero out the disabled unborn in the 21st century.
American Spectator ^
| May 2013
| DANIEL ALLOTT & GEORGE NEUMAYR
Posted on 05/25/2013 11:01:19 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
05/25/2013 11:01:20 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Just try to imagine it - a world without the disabled, e.g. Democrats!
To: Darteaus94025
Liberal Democrats already seek abortions. Their children will not exist to inherit the world.
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posted on
05/25/2013 11:23:41 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
To: neverdem
Precisely how it does so may ultimately depend on societys response to a simple question: Is the world really better off without people with disabilities?Steven Hawking (ALS). Beethoven (deaf), Van Gogh (mentally ill), John Nash (Nobel laureate mathemation, schizophrenic), Helen Keller (blind and deaf).
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posted on
05/25/2013 11:26:38 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: neverdem
Einsten (Aspergers), Alexander Graham Bell (learning disability), Thomas Alva Edison (slightly deaf, learning disability, diabetic), Henry Ford (dyslexic), Isaac Newton (stuttered, epilepsy), Leonardo Da Vince (dyslexic), General George Patton (dyslexic).
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posted on
05/25/2013 11:31:30 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
Others who were either diagnosed with or had all the symptoms of being bipolar: Isaac Newton, Lincoln, Churchill,Hamilton, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Buzz Aldrin, Van Gogh, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemmingway, Frederick Olmsted, Friedrich Nietzsche, Florence Nightingale, Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock, Ted Turner. The list goes on, but these examples are frequently cited by mental health professionals. I use bipolar because it is a good example of psychiatric disorder with a genetic basis. There are varying severities to the illness, but people with bipolar tend to die ten to fifteen years earlier than the normal population and lose another fifteen years of productivity. So why does the gene persist? Look at the names at the top of the list and there’s your answer. People with bipolar see the world differently and they are habitual risk takers. So Newton, and Poe, and Olmsted, and Van Gogh, and (yes) even Churchill did not overcome a birth defect and become sucessful in spite of it. That birth defect WAS who they were and a key ingredient in that sucess. God doesn’t make mistakes.
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posted on
05/26/2013 12:10:59 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: Myrddin
I appreciate your point.
I would happily make the exception to provide well-managed, tax-payer funded assistance to the families and providers that attend to those we all agree are needy.
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posted on
05/26/2013 12:21:14 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: presidio9
>> God doesnt make mistakes.
Maybe we’re the mistake; the normality that hinders evolution.
Interesting list.
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posted on
05/26/2013 12:24:55 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: wardaddy; Joe Brower; Cannoneer No. 4; Criminal Number 18F; Dan from Michigan; Eaker; Jeff Head; ...
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posted on
05/26/2013 12:37:54 AM PDT
by
neverdem
(Register pressure cookers! /s)
To: little jeremiah
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posted on
05/26/2013 12:50:08 AM PDT
by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: presidio9
What good is it to gain the whole world and lose your soul?
There’s more to life than a “perfect” body.
And just who gets to decide what “perfect” is anyway?
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posted on
05/26/2013 12:55:14 AM PDT
by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: neverdem
I am sad when people want to discard children like a disposable razor merely because they are different.
To: neverdem
This bothers me so very much. I have a child with genetic differences and he is a precious person. What wonderful people the world would miss if people were encouraged to never let them become.
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posted on
05/26/2013 1:49:45 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: metmom
What good is it to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Theres more to life than a perfect body. And just who gets to decide what perfect is anyway? I'm not agreeing with this news item, but births could increase among those who would otherwise "fear disability" in their children.
(Among young and shallow women, abortions could go down among those who want a "perfect" child).
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posted on
05/26/2013 2:26:07 AM PDT
by
Does so
(Progressives Don't Know the Meaning of INFRINGED...)
To: SatinDoll
“Liberal Democrats already seek abortions. Their children will not exist to inherit the world.”
Actually, they’re aware of this. That is why they have taken over the school system so liberalism will not die out. The coo coo bird lays its eggs in the nest of songbirds. Eventually, the songbird’s own young die and they die of the strain of raising such a large bird.
Liberals are parasites who kill the host.
To: neverdem
The same reasoning that is used to promote killing a disabled person before birth can be used to promote killing a person who acquires a disability (through injury or illness) later in life. And it already is.
“Who decides?” Start by asking, “Who pays?”
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posted on
05/26/2013 3:53:25 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The Commie Plot Theory of Everything. Give it a try - you'll be surprised how often it makes sense.)
To: Myrddin
There is no reason to believe Beethoven’s deafness had any genetic basis.
It is not known what Van Gogh’s mental illness was caused by, but odds are it was not genetic.
Nobody has a clue at this point in time what causes schizophrenia, but a simple genetic cause is unlikely.
Helen Keller was born perfectly normal and lost her sight and hearing as the result of disease when a toddler.
Most birth defects are not caused by simple genetic defects but by complex interactions between genes and intrauterine development events. Or simply by the intrauterine events alone.
My point is that claims that we will be able to weed out “defective” people are wildly overblown. Most defects are not caused directly by genetic problems.
Downs’ Syndrome is not a good example of where we’re headed. It is one of the few problems that is both common and easy to test for.
To: SatinDoll
> Liberal Democrats already seek abortions. Their children will not exist to inherit the world.
You say that as if it’s a bad thing....lol /s
To: Sherman Logan
Yeah but what if they redefine “disability” or “defect”. You know how those pesky progressive Alinskyite libs think. They’ve already managed to redefine evil as good and lies as truth. Nah I’d rather take my chances...
To: jsanders2001
No. It’s just Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ in action.
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posted on
05/26/2013 5:12:49 AM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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