Posted on 04/14/2011 12:45:28 PM PDT by wagglebee
Well said, wagglebee.
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Excellent point.
Thanks for that news. Wonderful news.
The tests are not infallible.
I can also see these eugenecists having a 'clerical error' and killing off healthy kids as well, perhaps even to meet a quota. I would not want to extrapolate the evil opportunities which would spring from such.
I can't argue that government should be removed as much as possible from the equation, but at the same time there is that treacly situation where a lot of people have paid for something, and should get what they paid for. We have a similar problem with Social Security.
Neither system should have existed; the challenge is finding an equitable way to quit.
In the meantime, either could be treated as a way for our society to provide for those who suffer catastrophic problems, while the rest of us count our blessings. The less Government in the middle of it all, the more efficient (cost wise) the safety net will be. There are countless other places a dollar could be saved without resorting to murder.
I still live in a place where there are jars on the counters at the convenience stores where people can donate to help a family with sudden medical problems and no/not enough insurance, where benefit auctions are held to help out those who truly are in need.
That sense of community has not been wrested from us yet, nor can it be abused in a town where most know each other.
However, it appears that in many places, the 'government will take care of them' attitude has replaced the 'we look out for our own' attitude communities used to have most everywhere.
When a society loses the sense that we have some moral responsibility for each other, not through the threat of legal intervention, but out of basic kindness, we have lost that sense of community which makes any society cohesive and we have lost our sense of responsibility to our society as well. It is the threshhold of decay, the top of the slippery slope into the pit of barbarism, no matter how technologically refined.
How far we have come from "Ask not what your Country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country." in just a few decades.
To hear them tell it they are. They hounded this couple to abort.
Austin came in at 8 lbs 3 ozs. Mom are Dad are stunned that he hasn’t all the health issues that doctors swore he would. And glad that they trusted God for a healthy baby.
Such wonderful news. I bet Mom and Dad learned some lessons, too, about trusting docs and so on. I can only imagine how thankful they are!
I think I’ve mentioned that when I was preg with child #2, and had been abandoned by so-called husband, my mother came to visit me and pressured me so heavily to get an abortion I had to push her out of my door and slam it shut.
When I was 34 and having my daughter, the doctor told me that I was "at risk" (my age) for the baby to have problems. They wanted to run all kinds of tests. I told him to take a flying leap. In 1985 that kind of thinking wasn't prevalent and I was furious!
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