Posted on 05/30/2004 8:43:55 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
Thanks for remembering conservative cat . It was an intense thread for me.
Boy's letter on abortion rights wins him trip to D.C.
There was follow up from all the wonderful FReepers as you might imagine and the contest was disbanded. The Lutheran Brotherhood decided it was better to get out of the kitchen than take the heat.
When Even the Churches Abandon the Helpless [FreeRepublic activism works]
There is no one to take care of these handicapped children!! Mothers and fathers don't even take care of their able bodied children. They abandon them to all their worldly pursuits. They don't take care of their elderly parents either. Spouses even abandon their own ill spouses when it gets to difficult. Everyone is warehoused for the sake of selfish pursuits. How can we expect people hearts to be turned back toward a handicap child who will need them so often.
A book that should be required reading for all, along with just about anything by George Orwell.
I'll bet you a lot of people would abort that child with autism. I've certainly read letters from people saying they wish they could have aborted their severely disabled child. I have a child with mild autism, Asperger's, and it has been a tremendous burden for our family, and his younger siblings have suffered for it. I cannot imagine what families go through who have a severely affected child.
But I never would have aborted him, I refused to participate in a genetic study, I refused to have my other three children prenatally tested. They are all blessings. But the other families I knew from my son's early intervention group; they swore they would never have another child. The best thing I have given my son are his brother and sisters.
Mrs VS
Darwinism is NATURAL selection. This is most definately not that.
Oh, I so agree! And the best thing we could have given ourselves, too! My son loves his siblings and vice-versa. Also, I can't imagine how bleak my outlook on life would have been without the other kids to bring a feeling of normal to parenthood- and it makes me appreciate him more a lot of the time.
My son has moderate autism- but we are lucky that he finally has some verbal abilities.
If you haven't seen it yet, go rent GATTACA, and be sure the watch the Coda in the DVD extras. You'll wonder how the heck this came out of Hollyweird.
Thanks for posting this! I had not found FR at that point! I was so upset about that essay at the time.
A requirement determined by people who would take a life for personal convenience...and THAT is normal?
And to think that a lot of these people with this mindset think they tote an anti-discriminatory attitude.
I have gone on to have two more kids, and it has been great for all of us.
No, the causes of autism are not known. They got pretty far when they noticed that mercury poisoning has VERY similar symptoms. And until very recently, there was a form of mercury (thimerosal) in all the vaccines being shot into babies starting at 2 months old. There are a lot of foreign substances going into the infant with each vaccine, and the number they receive so early is staggering. Yet nothing has absolutely proven it is the vaccines that do it. There has also been no study to absolutely prove they do not, either.
If something foreign from the environment (vaccines or something else) does play a causal role, there must also be some kind of genetic predisposition, because most kids do NOT "get" autism.
While some of the more highly functioning cases are surely due to more diagnosis because in previous generations these kids were called geeks or weirdos and not properly treated, the almost epidemic proportions of more profound cases of autism can't be so easily explained away. Something is going on.
Gruezi Herr Tell. Isn't it ALWAYS the ones who want to preserve every little field mole the same ones who want killing of unborn humans on demand?
Darwin was wrong. God exists.
Every baby is perfect, every human being is unique. Human beings are not garbage, please do not all into that trap of labeling people by our outward appearences...that is what the Eugenists want us to think.
It might actually be looked at as valuing the spiritual over the material. Such values are nothing new, but screening technology gives another outlet for its expression.
>> Hitler is applauding from hell.
Exactly. Hitler was a anti-Christian leftist, so why should we expect his modern-day contemporaries on the left to believe differently?
"The doctors" must have been trained at the University of Timbuktu. Even American medical students know better than that.
Maybe they just need to stop and remember what it was like when they were fetuses.
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