I think there's a difference between 'sick' and 'misery'. For example, one of my cousin's was born missing a kidney. That's fine. She can still have a normal, happy life. My problem is that Down's syndrome means suffering during a short life. The short life is something of a mercy, really, and that's part of what kills me -- when heavily disabled kids die, the family feels relief and sorrow mixed together, because at least the kid isn't in pain anymore. The idea of a woman knowing that her child is going to endure that sort of pain, and forcing the child to go through it? It's repugnant to me. I can't believe that anyone could be so blindly principled as to not think about what's the more compassionate path for the child involved. It might make her feel like a good person to say that she'd never ever kill a baby no matter what but honestly? That baby is not going to thank you for it.
That said, she doesn't seem to be doing the raising. Three days after giving birth, she was back at work and says that the husband takes care of the kid -- the husband who has two jobs, by the way. Yeah, no. My family had both parents, a live-in nurse, and a live-in maid taking care of my sister and everyone was still exhausted. I don't believe that one guy on his own can take care of a kid with Down's syndrome, hold down two jobs and take care of four other normal kids besides that.
This kid's getting short-shafted because the mother wanted to prove how pro-life she is, and I am filled with RAGE at the thought that anyone would do that to a child, that anyone could bring a child into this world knowing its existence is going to be composed of suffering. RAGE. Seriously, this angers me more about her than any of her actual political stances, none of which I happen to agree with either.
As for Obama, yeah, it was a sound strategic move! My main concern is really his foreign policy (I will never get over his brilliant idea of bombing Pakistan!), but I'm really not sure about Biden's Three Iraq (http://tinyurl.com/58q5cm) policy. It reeks too much of what happened in India when the British decided to make Pakistan a separate country and Partition came slamming down -- India and Pakistan are still having problems to this very day. Though at least none of the Iraqi states could have WMD, since Bush has pretty much turned Iraq upside down looking for them and found nothing but a lot of annoyed Iraqis.
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That said, she doesn't seem to be doing the raising. Three days after giving birth, she was back at work and says that the husband takes care of the kid -- the husband who has two jobs, by the way. Yeah, no. My family had both parents, a live-in nurse, and a live-in maid taking care of my sister and everyone was still exhausted. I don't believe that one guy on his own can take care of a kid with Down's syndrome, hold down two jobs and take care of four other normal kids besides that.
This kid's getting short-shafted because the mother wanted to prove how pro-life she is, and I am filled with RAGE at the thought that anyone would do that to a child, that anyone could bring a child into this world knowing its existence is going to be composed of suffering. RAGE. Seriously, this angers me more about her than any of her actual political stances, none of which I happen to agree with either.
As for Obama, yeah, it was a sound strategic move! My main concern is really his foreign policy (I will never get over his brilliant idea of bombing Pakistan!), but I'm really not sure about Biden's Three Iraq (http://tinyurl.com/58q5cm) policy. It reeks too much of what happened in India when the British decided to make Pakistan a separate country and Partition came slamming down -- India and Pakistan are still having problems to this very day. Though at least none of the Iraqi states could have WMD, since Bush has pretty much turned Iraq upside down looking for them and found nothing but a lot of annoyed Iraqis.