all this talk about aborting disabled kids reminds me of a story from my own life. i guess ive never opened up about it before.
when in my early 20s i had a fling with this girl. call her rachel. rachel was a serious lefty, which meant something then. grew up poor and hard, sharp enough to move up but two feet in the old culture.
one morning out of nowhere she started describing a scenario to me, with some warmth and animation. what would i do, she asked, if she got pregnant and the baby was disabled. like, really disabled. i believe she used the phrase "fucked up beyond hope of living a normal life."
i found this incredibly off-putting. but it was one of those questions that obviously had a correct answer, and i had the presence of mind to deliver it looking her dead in the eye.
"i suppose," i ventured, "i would have to name it rachel."
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@McJuggerNuggets you are only looking at it from one perspective. think about from the pov that someone sees an unborn baby as just another human. then someone advocates if it's inconvenient it's fine for a while and then no unless something else a b c d e, but does this not just muddle murder?
@hayliekyu they are deciding for that human whether they should live a life at all and deciding FOR them whether they deserve to try to live a life... the human decided when they had sex whether the risk of birth was worth it... (in most cases)
Years ago, my wife and I learned our unborn son likely had a rare genetic disorder.
We were scared, and agonized over what to do. We were on the edge of terminating the pregnancy.
We made a hard choice—but the right one. Today he turns 20.
We couldn’t be prouder of the man he’s become.