Why is our culture so hostile towards preborn babies w/ disabilities or genetic anomalies? Countless mothers abort their babies after inconclusive prenatal screening tests that are 80-93% wrong. No child should be killed, let alone because of a chance she won't be "perfect."
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The prenatal tests are not 80 to 93% wrong. That said, I oppose negative eugenics on principle. But there are some kids born with conditions incompatible with life. That doesn't mean they will be disabled for the rest of their long lives. It means they will die in infancy, having spent the entirety of their short lives in pain.
Rather than attacking abortion, try educating the public on disability. Now there's a novel idea. There is so much overt discrimination out there it would shock most people to comprehend the extent of it.
My auntie had Down's Syndrome, as does my second cousin. After having seen what my grandparents went through with her, I would not blame anyone who aborted a fetus with this chromosome abnormality or others.
I just had a thought…if there was developed a prenatal test screening procedure that could determine with, say, 95-97% certainty whether the embryo or fetus would become gay or/and transgender, how many would get the test done and choose to abort if the result said the future child would indeed be gay or trans?
“No child should be killed, let alone because of a chance she won't be "perfect."”
No child should, I agree. However I do not consider a brainless fetus as a child till it develops the aforementioned brains. Simple enough? It’s not killing somebody who already exists, it’s preventing a consciousness from ever forming in the first place and you can only kill what already exist, fuckhead.
Now that being said I would gladly abort my own if I knew for a fact they were to suffer from some serious defects, specially on the mental spectrum but any sufficiently heavy defect would do. Not wanting to put more disadvantaged people into a society which is perpetually complicent in disadvantaging them is much more responsible an action than to bring forth more misery into this planet out of a selfish bid for reproduction at all costs.
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