Maybe We Should Kill Defective Babies...?
July 3rd 2008 03:16
The links below are to a series of birth defects, any one of which could provide the excuse for "terminating the pregnancy" or, more accurately, killing the baby. In my family alone, we have relatives with several of these problems. I have two of them, myself and my daughter has one. No, I'm not going to tell you which ones. Suffice to say that either one of us could have been killed because of the fact that we were imperfect. When I was born, abortion was not legal (lucky for me!) and when my daughter was born, I refused to even consider it! She did have a series of surgeries with little chance of success before she was one year old. Although the memories of her previous medical condition remain, she is doing very, very well and is as normal and healthy as anyone who was born that way.
Anyone who would kill an imperfect child is very far from perfect themselves... inside, where it really counts. What's wrong with women who kill their babies because of physical imperfections? Is it the "movie star image" they want for themselves and their children? Is it that a child with a deformity or defect might be too much trouble? Or are they so insecure in who they are, they fear being labeled as the mother of an imperfect child? People can still amaze me, even at my age. Sometimes the amazement is good, sometimes it's not. In cases of birth defects, its not the babies who are defective, it's usually the parents.
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http://www.blindness.org/
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
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Anyone who would kill an imperfect child is very far from perfect themselves... inside, where it really counts. What's wrong with women who kill their babies because of physical imperfections? Is it the "movie star image" they want for themselves and their children? Is it that a child with a deformity or defect might be too much trouble? Or are they so insecure in who they are, they fear being labeled as the mother of an imperfect child? People can still amaze me, even at my age. Sometimes the amazement is good, sometimes it's not. In cases of birth defects, its not the babies who are defective, it's usually the parents.
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http://www.blindness.org/
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
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Comment by Lester Caudill
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Comment by alt_ed
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Personally, if a parent doesn’t want to bring a child into the world that isn’t going to have the best chance at survival that’s their choice. If another parent, is willing to support that child until, they pass away that’s fine too.
But it is the parent’s choice, what is right for you isn’t right for all and vice versa.
Perhaps had you given birth to a dozen more, or less children your views would be different. And besides S.L. who is to say that a mother who has an abortion is any worse than the mother who disowns a child after they are born, simply because they have done wrong? Children learn from their parents, any failings in a child, are obviously a reflection of the mothers/fathers own shortfalls- the parents who love and support their children through the good and bad are the only ones that deserve to be called ‘parents’…
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