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Doctor Called Couple ‘Selfish’ for Choosing Life for Son With No Arms
Live Action ^ | 5/31/23 | Nancy Flanders

Posted on 06/03/2023 7:52:56 PM PDT by marshmallow

A 25-year-old woman and her husband received criticism for refusing to abort their son because he does not have arms. She said she loves her son just as he is — “perfect.”

According to The Mirror, Mariaan Strauss and her husband Hendrick, from South Africa, explained that they learned during an ultrasound at 13 weeks that their son did not have arms. The doctor advised the parents to abort him. And while the thought of raising a child with different abilities seemed daunting to the couple, they did not want to end his life.

Called “selfish” for that decision, the couple now says that 11-month-old Hendré is the “greatest gift we could have received.” He weighted just over six pounds at birth and Mariaan said that she and her husband cried “because it was such a beautiful moment.”

Still, she said, “the big, dark depression hit me.”

“Society is cruel and I thought, ‘Will our child ever be accepted? Is he going to be mocked and bullied?”

She added, “The words of my specialist kept running through my head, ‘You’re selfish if you don’t abort. You must think of the child. He will never be able to have a normal quality of life.'”

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TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife

1 posted on 06/03/2023 7:52:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

When infanticide is described an act of selflessness. What in the hell is wrong with us?


2 posted on 06/03/2023 7:56:47 PM PDT by Spok (“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”q)
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To: Spok

“What in the hell is wrong with us?”

Please don’t lump “us” in with that group of degenerates. They are the f’ing problem. People who kill babies deserve the same fate.


3 posted on 06/03/2023 8:22:58 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: marshmallow

There are examples of armless individuals who have adapted in amazing ways. Life is life.


4 posted on 06/03/2023 8:23:46 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: marshmallow

Identify that “doctor” and make sure he’s never allowed in any children’s hospital or VA hospital.


5 posted on 06/03/2023 8:30:10 PM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: marshmallow

Praise God for the beautiful life of Hendré may he acomplish great things for the pleasure of his Perfect Creator!


6 posted on 06/03/2023 8:34:24 PM PDT by Theophilus (flush the alphabet soup!)
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To: budj

South Africa


7 posted on 06/03/2023 8:37:19 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: bigbob

The thalidomide babies. .


8 posted on 06/03/2023 8:38:47 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: marshmallow

The doctor is an ass. Does he recommend death for amputees too?


9 posted on 06/03/2023 9:12:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: marshmallow

No sense of empathy.

Ok, cut off the doctors arms. Ask him if he still wants to live.

Jeez. People have zero dam ability to empathize. Women, politicians, doctors, “experts”.


10 posted on 06/03/2023 9:51:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

In some respects, that doctor is correct. This child will have a life of constant struggle. Moreso, if this couple has other children who do not bear that disability. Having the love and support of his family will help instill this child with a feeling of self worth. It’s good they allow him to explore and find his own ways to move about. Let him try things on his own.

The good part is this couple seem up to the task, and are committed for the long run.
As an earlier poster mentioned, this reminds me of the Thalidomide Children born in the early 60s. To this day, I have not forgotten those black and white photographs printed in various national magazines.


11 posted on 06/03/2023 10:00:44 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

I’m an amputee

Many year ago I was at a prosthetic office getting fitted for an arm.

I was sitting in the waiting room

And in there with me was a little 4 year old girl sitting on floor playing...

She had no arms whatsoever ever. You could see ...she was born that way.

Literally nothing...just flat shoulders not even a scar or stump.

She was busy playing with her dolls dressing them using her feet and doing a doll teaparty like little girls do... she was happy as a clam.

This doctor can go f..k himself...


12 posted on 06/03/2023 10:44:59 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: marshmallow

Given a choice, I think I’d rather have no arms than no heart.


13 posted on 06/04/2023 2:41:47 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: tophat9000

Volunteered at Walter Reed during the Afghan war. They put me on the amputation war.

The “grads” would come visit, strutting down the hall showing off their prosthetics.

They would talk to the totally depressed newbies. Eventually they would look at their watches and say “We gotta go. We’re going wind surfing on the Chesapeake and next year you are coming with us!” Boy did they lift spirits.

Murdering people who are not perfect is wrong.


14 posted on 06/04/2023 3:56:03 AM PDT by lizma2
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To: marshmallow

‘You’re selfish if you don’t abort. You must think of the child. He will never be able to have a normal quality of life.’”

Dr Quack has it backwards. A selfish person would think only of themselves and abort the child. Instead of a normal quality of life Dr Quack would deprive the child of ANY life.

I bet the doctor also recommended the parents get the jab, too.

God has a plan for this child and the parents are blessed to realize that.

EC


15 posted on 06/04/2023 5:54:43 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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