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But wouldn't that be because you weren't born that way? If you were born with disabilities, you wouldn't know another way.
Severe medical issues, treatments, surgeries etc. suck even if you are 2 years old with severe cognitive disabilities. Struggling to breath until you die at age 4 while experiencing lots and lots of pain?
I'm again talking about the ENTIRE range of disability. Not the "disabled" you see on TV or on group trips to the zoo or bagging groceries.
OK, I'm not giving an opinion one way or the other regarding abortion, but your last paragraph is a bit overdone. Most Down Syndrome people are in fact, not self supporting, even if they are working.
A close friend has a 25 year old, high functioning Downs daughter (Susan). She does work, but must keep her hours under the SSI limit or she will lose benefits.
Susan's mother was under 35 when she became pregnant, so did not get an amniocentesis. She was a special ed. teacher, so was an informed parent from the very beginning. Susan started therapy immediately after birth and is a lovely young woman. However, she has multiple cognitive deficits and will never be able to live on her own.
Downs children are just that forever and ever - children. I watch my retired friends still providing care for their 'child' and know that I would never want to live their life, no matter how OK they are with it (and they are).
My friend is very up front with her thoughts and she told me a while ago that if she had known she was carrying a Downs child, she would have aborted.
So people should have a baby with a profound disability requiring significant medical, financial, and parental resources...while society as a whole is telling people they don't want to help people provide for those with that type of disability?
Yeah right. People get to have a say in what to do when they help me with the consequences of forcing that decision.
It's easy to tell people what they think others should do, and skip away leaving others to hold the bag. That's not responsibility.
Beforing starting to watch American Horror Stories I would have been in the abort camp, but now I'm not so sure, Jamie Brewer who plays Adelaide is simple a beautiful and talented young women. Who I think the world is a better place having her in it. Not knowing the side of the parents of the severely mentally retarded I say it's their choice.
I wasn't aware that the polio vaccine was used to kill a class of people.
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