1) With this abortion in cases of special needs debate=
I’m on the spectrum (Level 1 & college educated in a real degree). If my autism were any more severe I would NOT want to be on the planet.
You have to think about the realistic QOL that would happen if the fetus was born.
Ma’am! YOU gave up on your child. Who refused IEP’s, ABA and told everyone his IQ was low? Ewwwwww. At least your goblin is smart enough to tell you leave and knows his mummy is going through something. You are not a great mom KJ, sit down
I went to a coffee shop the other day and was greeted by a 73 year old woman. The sweetest lady. I asked her how day was going and there was a look of concern coming over her as she sighed and said “okay, but I’m working my second job today”.
I tipped her as best as I could and have been praying for her ever since.
This is a real life example of what’s wrong with America. We can’t even take care of our elders! What kind of society lets its elders suffer like this? Meanwhile we can send endless $$ to Israel and Ukraine!?!?
America is in a deep state of decay. This HAS to change!
It's not all covered. There's an incredible amount of tests, medications, travel, equipment and every plan has caps. Worse, pediatric cancer research is so underfunded.
I've seen many families ultimately use their last dollars on a funeral. I've run races and shaved my head for fundraising with everyone I know who's seen the same.
This is a dirty little secret in pediateic care.
@jeremyct They likely maxed out the policy. This happened to us when our son contracted meningitis and was a coma. The experience broke us mentally, physically, spiritually, and financially. Time and bankruptcy court did help us heal.
Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.
He told me he’s not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.
They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don’t.
@MadelaineLucyH Knew soooo many guys in the military who did this and would try to dodge prividing for their wives extended families by never giving their wives money and only gifts. So the wives would just mail the handbags and clothes to her family to sell anyway
@GeorgeJourneys@MadelaineLucyH@MT_6226 When I was last in the UK recently I was told that the colloquial name for these guys is “my ex-husband who paid for the house and pays me monthly maintenance”
I attended Trump’s big 4th of July event during his first administration. It was PACKED!
Today while on vacation I am an hour away from DC with zero desire to attend the “Great State Fair”.
Its clear I am not alone in this feeling.
Mass migration + gay rights = uncomfortable truth.
Europe imported millions from cultures where homosexuality is illegal or punishable by death.
Result? Rising attacks on gay people in cities like London, Paris, and Stockholm. Pride parades need heavy police protection — or get canceled.
You can support legal immigration and gay rights and still say: unchecked mass migration from incompatible value systems threatens both.
Open borders aren't compassionate if they erode the freedoms that made the West attractive in the first place.
Data over dogma.
Integration matters.
@MrSausageGet The midterms are meaningless. Just more Uniparty aholes with an R in front of their title.
Fck em.
Trump needs to be impeached. I don't gaf which branch of the uniparty does it or for what stated reason.
He's a corrupt fraud. They all are.
@MrSausageGet He needs to stop producing events and bring results. No state fairs. No polls. No ballrooms. No golden eagles to hang on the front of the White House. No UFC matches. No golf courses. JUST DO THE STUFF HE RAN ON.
@VladTheInflator Rich family I know had to send kid to an ER said it looked like the third world -patients in the hallways had to pull strings to get him a room-regular rich is exposed- unless your uber rich there’s no escaping anymore