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1 posted on 03/01/2012 2:44:46 PM PST by NYer
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I’m sure Ronan would be happy to know his mom would rather have him dead.


2 posted on 03/01/2012 2:46:21 PM PST by madison10
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There’s this thing called genetic counseling, Ms. Rapp.


3 posted on 03/01/2012 2:46:42 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Journalists first; then lawyers.)
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Funny, that’s probably what her mother said about her.


4 posted on 03/01/2012 2:49:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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A writer and mother has challenged Rick Santorum’s stance against abortion by explaining that she would have certainly aborted her son if she had known of his disability and attendant suffering before he was born.

As a point of information, ..... While anyone can be a carrier of Tay-Sachs, the incidence of the disease is significantly higher among people of eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jewish descent. Approximately one in every 27 Jews in the United States is a carrier of the Tay-Sachs disease gene.

Essentially, this mother would prefer to disinherit her heritage. I have the greatest respect for the Jews. They are proud of their heritage and tradition. More importantly, they cherish their heritage, both good and bad. This woman should devote more time to embracing the "gift" she has received from God, rather than regretting it.

5 posted on 03/01/2012 2:49:24 PM PST by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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Rapp, who herself suffers from a congenital condition that caused her to lose one leg at an early age, said that her mother “probably wished she’d had the choice” to abort her, and that it would have been her prerogative to do so

You're a smart girl. Surely you can figure out how to carry out the wishes you imagine your mother had for you.

I'd have a lot more respect for these enlightened eugenecists if they'd point the finger of death at themselves before they point it at everyone else they manage to deem unworthy.

The standard response to these people should be "You go first!"
7 posted on 03/01/2012 2:54:18 PM PST by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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Rapp, who herself suffers from a congenital condition that caused her to lose one leg at an early age, said that her mother “probably wished she’d had the choice” to abort her, and that it would have been her prerogative to do so, even though doctors gave her incorrect information in predicting Rapp would become mentally disabled or never walk.

“Regardless of the fact that none of the doctor’s warnings had any truth to them, it would have been her choice to make,” she wrote.

She wishes that she had killed her son and she wishes that her mother had killed her. The Culture of Death.

8 posted on 03/01/2012 2:55:45 PM PST by iowamark (The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves)
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Wait, she also says her own mother (the grandmother) probably wished she could have aborted her, as well!

Some people thrive on being outrageous to gain attention, this author is one of those people.

Essentially she is totally full of crap, or sometimes a dramatist like her believes their own crapola. What difference does it make? Neither mother aborted their child but it makes for an outlandish article.


9 posted on 03/01/2012 2:55:48 PM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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I wonder if the person who was to discover a way to eliminate this horrible gene was aborted.


10 posted on 03/01/2012 2:56:37 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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Hitler would be proud.


11 posted on 03/01/2012 2:58:51 PM PST by JediJones (Watch "Gingrich to Michigan: Change or Die" on YouTube. Best Speech Ever!)
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So, in essence, Emily Rapp, you say you love him and are glad that he is your son, but that you wish you had killed him.

Sorry lady, that's a sick view of the world and it tells your son, who if he lives long enough to read your words one day, that you really do not value his life or existance in this world. That you would rather have him dead, than have him, despite his suffering, have the chance to fight through and live.

You should think a whole lot more before you write, Emily, in support of what is becoming the worst Holocaust in History.

THE ABORTION HOLOCAUST - [Warning: Graphic Photo]

13 posted on 03/01/2012 3:01:54 PM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Its all about her and how she has to face to pain of her son dying. Even his pain is to much for HER to endure?
Otherwise, is she saying she wouldn’t have blamed her mother for aborting her if her mother would have known her daughter had a condition that required her to lose a leg?


14 posted on 03/01/2012 3:04:00 PM PST by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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When the nazis came to power in 1933 the one of their first acts they committed was to issue anti disability propaganda to the public, the nazis claimed that the existence of disabled people weakened societies ability to operate efficiently and that the social and economic problems that germany had suffered during the 1920s and 1930s were partly caused by the burden of supporting disabled people. The nazis stated that the life of mentally impaired and severely disabled were living ‘a life unworthy of living’.

The Nazis used posters that showed images of disabled people with captions such as ‘DEFORMED’ and various others to gain support from the german public, later the nazis made a film which was purely propaganda depicting ‘a husband carrying out a so called ‘mercy killing’

on his wife and then using the harsh and twisted nazi arguments to justify why he committed this criminal act of murder upon his wife.’

In July 1933 the Nazis passed a law for the ‘prevention of progeny with hereditary disease’ which ordered the forced sterilizations of all people with conditions the nazis considered hereditary disease and these included:

·Visual and Hearing Impairment... Mental-and-Disabled-Victims-Of-The-Nazis


15 posted on 03/01/2012 3:04:24 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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I’m wondering Emily Rapp’s mom is mad that she didn’t abort Emily when she had the chance, if she knew she was giving birth to such a cold heartless bitch...


16 posted on 03/01/2012 3:10:00 PM PST by Fedupwithit ("Live free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils" - Gen. John Stark)
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She would sooner have never seen her child’s face and held him in her arms???? Life is not worth living unless you get a long one?

Incredible

Karen Santorum is in such a different league than people like this. The birth and death of their son changed the Santorums in ways that will not creep into the bitter soul of this woman.


18 posted on 03/01/2012 3:11:06 PM PST by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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She is the carrier.. perhaps she should off herself.


19 posted on 03/01/2012 3:14:09 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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“Neither choice is bad or good; neither is this one thing or the other,” she wrote.”

Is this typical left-wing drivel, or what? Unbelievable.

20 posted on 03/01/2012 3:14:32 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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Godless generation !


21 posted on 03/01/2012 3:15:08 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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Wouldn’t it have been smarter for the mother and father to have been tested for Tay-Sachs markers before pro-creating?


22 posted on 03/01/2012 3:17:10 PM PST by Eva
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What a beautiful child. I couldn’t read much of the story because it’s difficult to read when I’m crying. I will say this, that I can only imagine how painful it must be for this woman to see her child suffer. She is wrong, but I feel very sorry for her and her son. I hope that she can find God and in so doing, find peace and acceptance.


24 posted on 03/01/2012 3:19:22 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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I challenge her to look him in the eyes and tell him that instead of “confessing” to a sympathetic liberal rag.


25 posted on 03/01/2012 3:19:54 PM PST by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
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