[NYer]

"Eugenics is the attempt to create fine healthy children and that's everyone's ambition." He believes couples who choose to have babies even when there are problems are "misguided" and the more we can screen out disability, pain and suffering the better.

Absolutely insidious! I know of several individuals who were told, as a result of various tests, that their fetus had abnormalities. It was strongly suggested that they abort. In one situation, the test results got mixed up in the lab with those of another fetus. The couple delivered a healthy child, much to the surprise of the attending physician.

The next phase of eugenics is "post birth" abortion, for those not caught during pregnancy. God help us all!

[honeygrl]

I had a friend that was pregnant with her son the same time I was pregnant with mine. She was told through the whole pregnancy that her son had downs syndrome. They did all the testing to confirm it even. Much to everyone's shock, her son was born perfectly healthy and did NOT have downs. None of the tests are perfect. This was only 3 yrs ago too.

[RobbyS]

What happens to people who become disabled through accident/crippling disease/age? Post-birth abortions up to age 100? Except for the few that society become sentimentally attached to. The contradictions are manifest. Extraordinary methods in behalf of one deformed child while perfectly normal children are being aborted. Can't figure these people out.

[Domestic Church]

Back in '54 the Doc told my mother she wasn't pregnant and needed a D & C (my folks already had 5 kids by then.) Thank God she quickly changed Docs so I could be born( at 2lbs 2oz!)