Posted on 03/10/2018 9:04:53 AM PST by EdnaMode
There is a new push in antiabortion circles to pass state laws aimed at barring women from terminating their pregnancies after the fetus has been determined to have Down syndrome. These laws are unconstitutional, unenforceable and wrong.
This is a difficult subject to discuss because there are so many parents who have and cherish a child with Down syndrome. Many people with Down syndrome live happy and fulfilled lives. The new Gerber baby with Down syndrome is awfully cute.
I have had two children; I was old enough, when I became pregnant, that it made sense to do the testing for Down syndrome. Back then, it was amniocentesis, performed after 15 weeks; now, chorionic villus sampling can provide a conclusive determination as early as nine weeks. I can say without hesitation that, tragic as it would have felt and ghastly as a second-trimester abortion would have been, I would have terminated those pregnancies had the testing come back positive. I would have grieved the loss and moved on.
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My nephew has DS...he fights for what is right! He’s smart, too. What is wrong with idiots today?
or 6 fingers,
or two color eyes,
or autism,
or any form of retardation,
or disability,
or ugly,
or sick,
- these are all categories of children mothers must be allowed to kill. It is their constitutional right to make the final determination to continue or end their child's life.
By virtue of its absolute dependence on its mother's body for its very life all babies forfeit any personal right to life.
Because motherhood is sacred.
I want the same right, the right to kill another human being that causes me inconvenience.
“There are few things more dangerous to Society than a Wealthy Socialist.”
That.
You see for these are the times that early testing prepares and shapes our future when that time of great sadness is upon us, and thank God we have science reminding us of the higher level of value for the short brief moments our beloved unborn children are with us.
The grieving part comes when you lose someone you desperately want to live. The only thing for this woman to properly grieve is her selfish and evil decision to abort her child
Mothers are treated as the owners of their children, and thus their children are treated as the property of mothers.
All of that arises from mothers being treated as The Parent vis-a-vis the disenfranchisement of fathers.
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