[Concerned]

Just in case you might think I "just don't understand what it would be like to have a child born with disabilities," I am the MOTHER of a SEVERELY mentally and physically disabled child who neither walks nor talks nor feeds herself and who still wears diapers at 18 years of age...and I am STILL PRO-LIFE!

[fourdeuce82d]

I DIdn't mean tO suggesT I support ABORTION OR that babies SHOULD BE KILLED (see how stupid all caps look?).

I meant to suggest that the presence or absence of a heartbeat was a pretty stupid way of distinguishing whether we are talking about a person- If your heart is stopped during surgery, are you not a person? If your head is severed, but you body is put on a respirator to keep the organs fresh for transplant, are you still alive? Is the body a person?

[aloysius89]

God bless you.

[homeagain balkansvet]

Bravo.

Best year in my life was spent as the personal caretaker of a young man much like your daughter. He never spoke a word to me--yet taught me more than all my professors.

God bless you; He will reward your pains.

[Aquinasfan]

I am the MOTHER of a SEVERELY mentally and physically disabled child who neither walks nor talks nor feeds herself and who still wears diapers at 18 years of age...and I am STILL PRO-LIFE!

I admire you. God bless you!

My sister-in-law is in a similar situation with her 12-year-old. I have some idea of how difficult it can be.