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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
What are you thinking; you think it is ok to kill a baby just because it is disabled, are you advocating that Steve Wonder, and many people who achieved great things (despite their disability) should be killed at birth!!!  
No one asks the child if they want to die, or to be aborted, we all suffer bad things in life, some are worse than others, but we should not just kill ourselves and others. Despite this I understand what you mean, but I do not agree with you on this!!!
As for animals, no one asks them if they want to be “put down” |
I can understand what I said getting your back up, it's not something I just come out with without really thinking about it. I try and think back to my earliest memory, and it has always been when I was 4 years old. Don't misunderstand me, if a baby is born and develops a personality then I wouldn't expect the parents to abort their child because their is a bond, but when a baby is just out of the womb I don't believe it would know any difference but if it is disabled or deformed, no one will convince me that they are not going to suffer in later life. Terminating at birth is like, what you don't have, you wont miss.
That is just my opinion, and I respect your opinion, but I will never be in a position influence policy one way or another, but I have been inside a few places where they look after these people and believe me it is heartbreaking. Many are scarsely human, some have spent years in one position staring at nothing, never speaking a single word or recognising their surroundings. Unable to even watch tv. So many of these pitiful creatures are literally no more than the proverbial vegatable, Aptly named, although over used. In my heart of hearts I couldn't condone anyone to an existence like that. That isn't living, that is just existing in a hell, christ, I couldn't wish that on my worse enemy.