Probably the most horrible thing I've ever read about parents...

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  1. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Well, duh! Who, given the choice between a healthy child and a Downs Syndrome, would go with Downs? That's not the point Loco was making. We can assume that this couple will now go about making this child feel as "normal" as they can and assure her that she is loved and wanted for who she is. Until she finds out somewhere along the way that her parents would have killed her before she was ever born, and not even because of the hardships they knew she would have faced. No, it was about the financial hardships they would have faced. Then what will they say to her?
     
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  2. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    It's the point I'm making. They were exercising a parental choice that you wish to deny them because of your personal religious beliefs that they obviously don't share.

    More religious spin. Telling her why she is different and has to endure so much difficulty is going to be the larger task. She may have difficulty understanding either answer.
     
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  3. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Why are you insisting on making a point that no one has disagreed with? Nobody in this thread has argued against the couple's right to kill their child before she was born.

    Yes, that will be a tough one for them. Tougher than answering: "Mommy, is it true that you would have killed me before I was born if you had known I would be special like this?" I don't know, and I'm thankful I'll never have to face it.

    BTW, you are the only person who has mentioned religion here.
     
    mctiger, Mar 16, 2012
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  4. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    It needed mentioning. Only the religious, the ones that think life is sacred, imagine that a family's personal choices are "horrible" and that they are "scum".
     
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  5. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    I understand that the parents are now facing an enormous burden with their daughter, but I also am disgusted by their lawsuit and the assertion that they'd have aborted their daughter if they'd known she was impaired.

    As a mother, I don't know how you can look at a child to whom you've given birth and say that. And this is coming from a mother who has a child with epilepsy and another with dyslexia/ADHD. I don't have perfect kids and have spent thousands in caring for the special needs of my kids. I gladly do it; they are my children and didn't ask to be conceived and born. It's my responsibility to care for them and any and all needs that arise to that end.

    As for prenatal testing, I never did any of the early testing that would've detected abnormalities in the womb (in time to have an abortion.)

    My husband and I very much disagreed with each other over this, but as a pregnant woman, I'd have been unwilling to terminate a pregnancy, so I honestly didn't want to know, and thus, have the possibility of bad news marring the nine months leading up to my child's birth. How could any mother not love her child as she's holding him or her in her arms? Again, my husband didn't get it and didn't feel connected to our daughters until they were born. It must be different for women and men.
     
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  6. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    I'm filing a lawsuit against the SPCA. I adopted a lab from there and they failed to tell me that the dog has ADD, ADHD, and is plain flat out retarded.

    They failed to test for all that...and my son now only has one of his Air Jordan's left.
     
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  7. Rex_B

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    Red is completely off base on this.

    If the doctor harmed the fetus or the mother got into a wreck and the fetus died did a criminal act take place?

    Does an abortion mean violence?

    LIFE has rights. It has nothing to do with religious this or that.
     
    Rex_B, Mar 17, 2012
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    If only the religious think life is sacred, then thank God for the religious. The secular, evidently, have no issues killing when a person is sufficiently inconvenient.
     
    Atreus21, Mar 19, 2012
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  9. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    It did not. Don't know about anyone else, but my disgust with the concept of a killing a child in the womb has nothing to do with what the Catholic church thinks. Anyone else care to weigh in on this?

    BTW, isn't it interesting that the terminology says a woman "conceives a child", but "aborts a fetus?"
     
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    Actually, I am an atheist and I am a pro-life conservative.
     
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