[trisham]

It’s frustrating and shocking. I never expect it, and it’s one of the reasons that wagglebee’s threads are so important.

[Norm Lenhart]

Indeed. Every single person here should look at their spouse and or kids right now and ask themselves if a car wreck put them in a ‘retarded’ or massively disabled state, how long would it be before they decided it was simply too much trouble.

Then try excusing this woman’s comments. Could they? Would they?

[wagglebee]

Seventy five years ago the Nazis decided to kill off the Lebensunwertes Leben (which means "Life Unworthy of Life"), they were deemed an unnecessary expense to society. It started with forced sterilization and then moved onto euthanasia. The Nazis didn't have the ability to determine disability through prenatal testing that we do today, but abortion was allowed in cases of disability (aborting the healthy baby of an "Aryan" woman was a capital offense).

Today prenatal testing is pushed for every pregnancy and women are encouraged to have an abortion if there is any sign of abnormality. People in both major parties bemoan how such children will place a greater financial burden on society. And there is an ever-increasing push for euthanasia, it's now portrayed as the only "dignified" way to die.

So I wonder, just how different are we from Nazi Germany?