Apparently the above is illustrative of a crime worthy of the death penalty.
May God have mercy on us.
Apparently the above is illustrative of a crime worthy of the death penalty.
May God have mercy on us.
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Guess times have changed.
How long, O Lord?
Sick! I have a nephew who was born with a cleft palate. A few surgeries and he was good as new.
My Father-in Law had a cleft palate. It was repaired so well that you couldn’t even hardly see the scar. He went on to develop dozens of wheat varieties dozens of years ago that are exciting in that they will hold up to and survive various diseases, fungus, and climactic conditions right now, and in the future. That’s right, he accurately predicted the conditions that farmers would be dealing with, long ago. He did so without the aid of computers.
But oh well! Guess he should have been aborted. Can’t be an inconvenience. No ugly babies allowed here! We’re smarter than in the old days when people cared!
/sarcasm off
Shame ,Cleft palate is no big deal nowadays.
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The women’s hospital in Pittsburgh has carried out abortions for this reason, and I’m willing to bet the number exceeds 7. Yet, where I work, we repair cleft lips & palates routinely & the kids do just fine. We’ve sunk so low as a society that some parents aren’t willing to accept anything less than the “perfect child”. Soulless idiots.
And so easily fixed with simple surgery. And some are not as severe as the illustration, either.
Unfortunately, sometimes it’s an easy way out for the doctor. In a highly pro-abortion newspaper several years ago, I read of a case where a woman had gone in to have a sonogram, in which the child was found to be hydrocephalic. Instead of having treatment options presented, everyone involved seemed determined to convince this woman that the case was hopeless and she should have an abortion ASAP (which she did). I think the reason for the story was to try to portray the pro-life position as rigid and uncompromising, through this example of a couple confronting a tragic situation where there were no alternatives to abortion.
Yet there are a number of surgical fixes available for hydrocephaly. Experts in fetal surgery can put a shunt in the skull to relieve pressure, if it is deemed that the pressure might cause brain damage if the condition isn’t treated before birth. It looks like the article left out this information because they wanted to lead readers to a predetermined conclusion.
For a doctor who doesn’t care about human life, or who believes that only perfect people have a right to life, the answer is obvious. Abortion is cheaper and easier than referring a patient to a specialist and working out a treatment plan. Technically, any treatment plan developed is a lot more challenging and involved than killing the kid.
Maybe that's not really the reason for these abortions?
