Comments on: Doctors Suggested Aborting Future Heisman Winner http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/12/11/doctors-suggested-aborting-future-heisman-winner/ The Truth Will Set You Free- John 8:32 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:21:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: theobromophile http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/12/11/doctors-suggested-aborting-future-heisman-winner/#comment-966 theobromophile Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:23:16 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/12/11/doctors-suggested-aborting-future-heisman-winner/#comment-966 Tammi, I'm cracking up at that last line. You're on a roll this week with your parenting advice. :) Seriously, though - WTF? Okay, I can understand abortion if it's you or the kid and the kid might not make it anyway, or the kid is basically dying during delivery or something awful like that. It happens - like once in a freakin blue moon. Now, as an able-bodied person, I don't understand what it would be like to go through life disabled or disfigured... but did these murderous morons miss the part where 1) plastic surgery will take care of most disfigurements; and 2) modern medicine will take care of a lot of disabilities? Aren't these the same people who are screaming that we need to use stem cells to help out the disabled folks? Okay, we've gotten adult stem cells to revert into pluripotent cells; now, will y'all PLEASE stop trying to kill everyone who has yet to exit the womb? Let's not forget the most important part: yes, the kid MIGHT be disabled. Maybe life as a disabled person really, really sucks. But does it suck worse than being dead? Usually, no - otherwise, disabled people would be killing themselves right and left. How about a little bit of CHOICE for those kids - like the choice of whether or not to be alive? The doctor isn't making a medical decision; he is saying, "Your child's quality of life is going to be so bad as to be worse than never being born." That's not within his training, expertise, or wisdom. Final thought: talk about that mom getting everything back. She's not saddled with guilt about an abortion; she's proud, every time she sees her son, for standing up to her doctor and knowing that he could lead a happy, productive, meaningful life. He did so, and in spades. With a mom like that, though, it's not a surprise. Tammi, I’m cracking up at that last line. You’re on a roll this week with your parenting advice. :)

Seriously, though - WTF? Okay, I can understand abortion if it’s you or the kid and the kid might not make it anyway, or the kid is basically dying during delivery or something awful like that. It happens - like once in a freakin blue moon.

Now, as an able-bodied person, I don’t understand what it would be like to go through life disabled or disfigured… but did these murderous morons miss the part where 1) plastic surgery will take care of most disfigurements; and 2) modern medicine will take care of a lot of disabilities? Aren’t these the same people who are screaming that we need to use stem cells to help out the disabled folks? Okay, we’ve gotten adult stem cells to revert into pluripotent cells; now, will y’all PLEASE stop trying to kill everyone who has yet to exit the womb?

Let’s not forget the most important part: yes, the kid MIGHT be disabled. Maybe life as a disabled person really, really sucks. But does it suck worse than being dead? Usually, no - otherwise, disabled people would be killing themselves right and left. How about a little bit of CHOICE for those kids - like the choice of whether or not to be alive? The doctor isn’t making a medical decision; he is saying, “Your child’s quality of life is going to be so bad as to be worse than never being born.” That’s not within his training, expertise, or wisdom.

Final thought: talk about that mom getting everything back. She’s not saddled with guilt about an abortion; she’s proud, every time she sees her son, for standing up to her doctor and knowing that he could lead a happy, productive, meaningful life. He did so, and in spades. With a mom like that, though, it’s not a surprise.

]]> By: Sunflower Desert http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/12/11/doctors-suggested-aborting-future-heisman-winner/#comment-965 Sunflower Desert Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:09:51 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/12/11/doctors-suggested-aborting-future-heisman-winner/#comment-965 <p>Oh my gosh ... that makes me cry. Can I cuss? Where in the hell do doctors get off? Sorry, it seems like in so many cases that it's just easier for the doctor to murder an innocent rather than do their freaking job and save lives. It might be a little more work but I think the end result is worth it.</p> <p>If I was that kid (he's probably not as vicious as myself) I would be finding that doctor and saying, "Remember me? I'm that little baby you thought would be better of dead. Guess you were WRONG!"</p> <p>Mothers need to buck up and take a stand against this crap. When a doctor advises you to have an abortion, slap the living crap out of him. Hey, play the hormone card, after all you're pregnant.</p> Oh my gosh … that makes me cry. Can I cuss? Where in the hell do doctors get off? Sorry, it seems like in so many cases that it’s just easier for the doctor to murder an innocent rather than do their freaking job and save lives. It might be a little more work but I think the end result is worth it.

If I was that kid (he’s probably not as vicious as myself) I would be finding that doctor and saying, “Remember me? I’m that little baby you thought would be better of dead. Guess you were WRONG!”

Mothers need to buck up and take a stand against this crap. When a doctor advises you to have an abortion, slap the living crap out of him. Hey, play the hormone card, after all you’re pregnant.

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