For those that believe the atrocities of Hitler would never be repeated, your eyes are hiding behind sand blasted, rose colored glasses.
From this report it appears that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology support infanticide of the disabled. Why? To prevent families disabling themselves from the burden of raising such a child.
The article does raise the question of creating designer families, but who is to determine if a child is disabled? The article is further appalling in that it really didn't seem objectionable to such an idea, there was more concern for the fact that people would actually carry "at risk" pregnancies to full term instead of getting an abortion.
I can't even imagine killing my son because he isn't perfect by societies standards. He is, however, perfectly him and I love everything about him. Even those things that annoy me becuase they challenge me. I am not disabled for having him. Those that see such children as crippling to others are disabled in their compassion and love.
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Nov. 9, 2006
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that was just me, I somehow had the dot in the Anonymous space.
And the world just gets sicker....
On a bright spot, I went for my first prenatal visit, and my doctor asked whether I wanted to have that Maternal Serum Screening testing done (I'm over 35), and when I said, "No, it wouldn't matter what the outcome was anyway.." my doctor said, "That would be my choice too, and I knew your answer, but it would be prejudicial of me not to ask..." At least SOME members of the medical community (even here in Canada) still have ethics and morality.