This Saddens Me
I just read that on LGF.
Who the HELL are they to be playing God?!!!
I’ve known some that are mentally retarded-and they have hearts of gold. What right do medical “professionals” have to decided that babies like them are ‘unworthy’ of life?!
Don’t think it can’t happen here.
Earlier in the year, some “parents” were allowed to withold food from their severely brain-damage new-born because if the baby lived he would have a very poor “quality of life”. it happened in Indiana-I think-and I’m sickened. BarbPosted by Annoying Little Twerp
11/30/2004 at 06:06 PM
I think it’s just yet another example of how socialistic (and communistic) nations/governments/regimes value life less than our nation that was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
Before I became a father, I was torn between pro-life and the libertarian attitude of ‘let a woman choose’, altho leaning towards pro-life. Now with 2 kids, I am STAUNCHLY pro-life. I have ZERO respect for anyone who gets an abortion as a method of birth control, and I firmly believe anyone who has a partial birth abortion should not have the priviledge of pro-creating again since they obviously don’t have a grasp of the responsibility or commitment that is involved with the enormity of bringing a life into the world (yes, I am saying partial birth abortion people should be involuntarily sterilized.).
Posted by FJBill
11/30/2004 at 06:24 PM
ack - bad phrasing:
Yes, I am saying that a woman who has a partial birth abortion should be involuntarily sterilized.
Posted by FJBill
11/30/2004 at 06:25 PM
Vilmar,
I have been privileged to have known four or five men that I have called “best friend” in my life. One of whom was a man named Jeffrey. When I met him Jeffrey was 30 years old and I was 38. Jeffrey was confined to a wheelchair and could not talk. He could not control his limbs except for sporadic jerking movements. However, he could make noises and facial expressions that allowed him to communicate with people who took the time to learn the rudimentary form of communication that he was limited to.
Jeffrey was born this way. At birth, his umbilical cord got tangled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain for an extended length of time causing major brain damage, mainly to motor control. However, it did not stop him from thinking and trying to be a part of the society around him.
Jeffrey had a good and decent family who loved him and took care of his needs including bathing him and keeping him hygenically clean. His father took him to the department store in the small town where he lived every day and Jeffrey would “converse” with everyone who stopped in. I visited him every day and we pulled pranks on people and just generally had a good time.
I haven’t seen Jeffrey in nearly twenty years and I’m afraid to go visit his family because the doctors said he probably wouldn’t live beyond his 35th birthday. I couldn’t face the tragedy of knowing Jeffrey is dead. I want to remember him as I knew him way back then.
But when I read of this kind of thing going on and read about people having abortions I can’t help but remember Jeffrey’s laugh. It wasn’t a normal laugh .. but then again, Jeffrey was an extraordinary fellow. I wish you all could have met him. My life is better for having known him.
Wherever you are Jeffrey, I love ya man! BANZAI!
Until the 50s and the advent of ‘modern’
medicine where the woman goes to a hospital
with many attendants to birth, doctors ...
routinely dispatched newborns too messed
up to survive. As did midwives. So has it
been for 25,000 years. That we assume the
responsibility for maintaining the very
infirm does NOT remove that genetically
from our biology. No more than declaring
vegetarianism will remove the genes that
make us omnivores. The sentiments involved
here are quasi-religious and very recent
in nature. I say try to seperate emotion
from the reality of survival. They are NOT
connected you know?Posted by Steel Turman
11/30/2004 at 08:49 PM
Sorry. No lengthy comment here. Just couldn’t get past the second paragraph, is all.
Farking sad.
Posted by kermit
11/30/2004 at 09:55 PM
Boo hoo. whine whimper sniffle sniffle.
Sad? SAD?
What’s SAD is when someone has such F’ed up priorities that their ability to f@$% without inconvenience takes precedence over what could potentially be a beautiful little baby. In this day and age, with the widespread subsidized availability of contraceptives, there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO justification for convenience abortions. To save the life of the mother, or in cases of incest and rape, I will grant that, while extremely distasteful to me, I understand those reasons.
I’ll apologize and shut up when a million+ babies are not killed every year.
Posted by FJBill
12/01/2004 at 01:20 AM
For the first two paragraphs all I could think was how closely this resembles Nazi beliefs of a “pure race”. By the time I hit the end of the article, I felt sad. I understand the emotional burden a sick child would place on the parents.
I know that the Romans would leave the sick child in the woods. However, the Illiad and the Oddessy were composed by one of the survivors.
The acceptance of euthenasia is a victory for EVIL. This is an attempt to get the “camel’s nose under the tent”. The gradual push towards acceptance cannot be allowed.
Posted by Tacberry
12/01/2004 at 08:03 AM
I’m not quite sure, but I think that when I said I couldn’t get through the first two paragraphs, FJBill may have thought that I meant the comment paragraphs. I meant the paragraphs in the story.
Recently we found out that someone in our family had gotten someone close to our family pregnant. By the time we found out, there was an addendum to the story. Based on the fact that they thought that we were going to kill one or both of them when we found out, they set up an abortion, with the help of a few rogue people in the family and they tried to cover it up.
There are now at least 6 family members not talking to each other, based on the fact that they are either angry, or just so shocked, they have no idea what to say.
We here are staunchly anti-abortion. What makes the story in this post even worse is that they are talking about state sanctioned euthanasia without consent, be it an adult or an infant. This is found to be reprehensible. Even in the case of incest or rape I cannot accept it. I used to know a woman who was unfortunately raped by her cousin and the act produced a baby girl. The girl was given up for adoption and the mother carried on a relationship with her as her ‘aunt’. The girl is normal and fine, and a beautiful life that could have been wasted for the sake of semantics.
To say that I would intentionally make a comment condoning this kind of tripe is ludicrous at best and bears correction.
Posted by kermit
12/01/2004 at 08:26 AM
OOPS! Kermit, I sincerely apologize. I indeed thought you meant my post. Sorry about that. I am also sorry for the situation your family has been put into.
-Bill
Posted by FJBill
12/01/2004 at 08:58 AM
No sweat. Just thought I should clear up the context of my comment.
Posted by kermit
12/01/2004 at 10:51 PM
