[DWSUWF]

"...If we can do away with the disabled, then who's next?"..."

I nominate 'Bio-Ethicists'.

[jimtorr]

it's a judgment about the condition and a judgment that it would be better if the children who are born don't have that condition."

In other words, it's better if those persons are never born. Brock has advocated aborting persons with disabilities in the past. In fact, Brock has advocated governmental pressure on parents of disabled babies to kill them for a period of up to several weeks after birth.

[nickcarraway]

Bio-ethicist Sparks Fuhrer

[Nora]

Interesting bit - the problem is that searching the NIH web site turns up only one hit for Brock, and that hit mentions him in one paragraph only, talking about dental care for kids. A little Googling turns up that he is a professor at Brown. I am as pro life, in all its stages and forms, as they come but this one sounds a bit like crying wolf.

[truthandlife]

The pro-death crowd is sickening! I do hope conservatives keep pressuring your congressmen for pro-life legislation to protect unborn babies. Pro-lifer voters saved their hides in the 2002 election. Now it is time for some payback.

[2timothy3.16]

Two things:

First, I would like to read what a true Born Again fundamental preacher has to say about this.

And second, I would like to remind those who think like singer and this guy, that Congress passed a law recently giving us the right to use deadly force to protect the life of any baby out of the womb.

Not all of my children were born perfect...

[MEGoody]

"Medicine is in the business of messing with nature and God's will,"

I suppose this could be argued, however, it seems clear to me that God gave doctors their intelligence and skill and has guided mankind in making medical discoveries. The problem comes in when doctors do the opposite of what they are supposed to do as doctors - save life. Ending the life of an innocent child just because they are physically imperfect, or because the child is inconvenient, too expensive, etc. etc. is NOT what doctors are supposed to do.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

I read a book by Gerry Spence a few years ago called From Freedon to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America. It begins with a letter from Gerry to Alan J Hirschfield where Gerry explains why he is defending Randy Weaver in court. I will never forget the two paragraphs below. In light of Peter Singer and now this Brock character, they are even more meaningful so I thought I'd share them.


In this country we embrace the myth that we are still a democracy when we know that we are not a democracy, that we are not free, that the government does not serve us but subjugates us. Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed, first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf. We did not care about the weak or about the strays. they were not a part of the flock. We did not care about those on the outer edges. They had chosen to be there. But as the wolf worked its way towards the center of the flock we discovered that we were now on the outer edges. Now we must look the wolf squarely in the eye. That we did not do so when the first of us was ripped and torn and eaten was the first wrong. It was our wrong.

That none of us felt responsible for having lost our freedom has been a part of an insidious progression. In the beginning the attention of the flock was directed not to the marauding wolf but to our own deviant members within the flock. We rejoiced as the wolf destroyed them for they were our enemies. We were told that the weak lay under the rocks while we faced the blizzards to rustle our food, and we did not care when the wolf took them. We argued that they deserved it. When one of our flock faced the wolf alone it was always eaten. Each of us was afraid of the wolf, but as a flock we were not afraid. Indeed the wolf cleansed the herd by destroying the weak and dismembering the aberrant element within. As time went by, strangely, the herd felt more secure under the rule of the wolf. It believed that by belonging to this wolf it would remain safe from all the other wolves. But we were eaten just the same.


I enjoyed the book and would recommend it. Here is a link to the entire letter the two paragraphs above were excerpted from. It is preceeded by Hirschfield's letter.

The Letter