[Darteaus94025]

Just try to imagine it - a world without the disabled, e.g. Democrats!

[Myrddin]

Precisely how it does so may ultimately depend on society’s response to a simple question: Is the world really better off without people with disabilities?

Steven Hawking (ALS). Beethoven (deaf), Van Gogh (mentally ill), John Nash (Nobel laureate mathemation, schizophrenic), Helen Keller (blind and deaf).

[Myrddin]

Einsten (Aspergers), Alexander Graham Bell (learning disability), Thomas Alva Edison (slightly deaf, learning disability, diabetic), Henry Ford (dyslexic), Isaac Newton (stuttered, epilepsy), Leonardo Da Vince (dyslexic), General George Patton (dyslexic).

[neverdem]

The Cabal That Quietly Took Over the House

To the Slaughter - British lions come up lambs in Woolwich. (Mark Steyn)

Nuclear futures: thorium could be the silver bullet to solve our energy crisis

'Winter' - maybe even snow - to return for Memorial Day weekend

Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

[metmom]

ping

[WildWeasel]

I am sad when people want to discard children like a disposable razor merely because they are different.

[Yaelle]

This bothers me so very much. I have a child with genetic differences and he is a precious person. What wonderful people the world would miss if people were encouraged to never let them become.

[Tax-chick]

The same reasoning that is used to promote killing a disabled person before birth can be used to promote killing a person who acquires a disability (through injury or illness) later in life. And it already is.

“Who decides?” Start by asking, “Who pays?”

[exDemMom]

There is no way to breed genetic abnormalities out of the human population. With each person having around 200 de novo mutations, it is inevitable that some of those mutations will be in critical genes that control development or behavior. Some mutations, like Downs syndrome, are fairly easy to spot. Although disabled people can be killed, their existence cannot be prevented. So eugenics is a futile discipline.

[KC_Lion]

[NoGrayZone]

"It can also give parents time to prepare psychologically for the birth of a child they may not have expected."

And what damage do these "doctors" inflict on expecting parents when they are WRONG, 2 BABIES IN A ROW??? Not even an apology after trying to coerce them into aborting 2 lovely healthy babies?

I know of 3 mothers who were all told to abort their babies because "there was something wrong". ALL 4 BABIES WERE BORN COMPLETELY HEALTHY!

Nor did these mothers care. They wanted their babies, come hell or high water. The "doctors" put the parents through heck with their "genetic counceling".

[JimRed]

Now, if they could only screen for liberalism...

[bolobaby]

The vast majority of abortions have *nothing* to do with potential disabilities or the health of the women.

It’s a lifestyle choice.