[forkinsocket]

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[Clintonfatigued]

Why the outrage? It’ll improve the child’s future.

[heartwood]

My cousin has a little girl with DS, and she says that the protruding tongue is caused by a weak suck in infancy, and that early therapy can improve the suck and the eventual mouth shape.

There is likely to come a point in the child’s life, maybe in the early teens, when he or she wants very much to look more like other people. I wonder if the results would be as good then?

[metmom]

Critics in the U.K. slammed the parents, with some even claiming the procedures were tantamount to child abuse. However, the parents hit back, saying that no one complained when "normal" children had their ears pinned back.

"Why should it be any different for a Downs child?" asked Georgia’s mother Kim Bussey.

She's got a point.

[susannah59]

Of course, if they had chosen to abort her before she was born, that would have been perfectly OK.

[Viking2002]

You know, I really can't take sides on this; I just don't know whether to laugh or cry over it.

[ryan71]

I think the parents have a problem.

This child is “accepted” by GOD. People who cannot “accept” this child will have some splaining to do...some day.

[yldstrk]

I can support that idea.

[RichInOC]

It strikes me that the kid’s the smart one in the family.

[littlehouse36]

 

[littlehouse36]

I have been to the park with my friend and her DS baby. The looks people give really are painful. I can’t imagine how the baby feels.

[Salvation]

God bless these parents.

Praying for them and the little girl.

[holden]

They'll universally cheer a "mother" for aborting such a child, and the pressure will overwhelmingly side with parents paying for orthodontia to improve their children's looks, in lieu of more natural mouth configuration, but this condemnation smacks a lot of the outrageous disdain Gallaudet University Leftists/cultural-exclusives have for allowing the University to be led by a normally-hearing person, even if that person is otherwise qualified and can fluently sign American Sign Language.

HF