Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
I'm really not enjoying the way people are talking about disabled children and I'm going to remind you that your perfectly healthy kid could become disabled at any moment, literally overnight, and no amount of NIPTs or screenings could've predicted it, and then what will you do?
@StarbaseRR@cynmdmi@swils0608 My point is that this person is being intentionally misleading by using foster children as her argument... because foster children are mostly not adoptable.
@rightwingnutrs The whole popularity aspect is really stupid...
We could look back in time and find briad support for all sorts of evil things. Does that mean that things like slavery, polygamy, incest, etc are moral? Obviously not.
I asked this person if they advocated for killing a child if they became disabled a few years after birth.
He said, of course not, that would be killing a person. That's wrong.
I then asked how many weeks into a pregnancy does he think a baby in the womb becomes a person
He said 15-20 weeks
Ladies and gentlemen, the DS baby that was recently aborted passed his personhood threshold. (She was 20 weeks)
So according to his own moral framework, aborting that baby was murder.
He remained silent after I pointed that out to him.
These people are ghouls. They have no consistent ethics and their only Northstar is their pleasure.
@malmesburyman I mean... you could just "sterilize" people who kill their child by putting them in prison for murder too. Which I am fully in favor of actually.
@FraserBerryFarm It may never be the thickest patch of hair, but I genuinely don't think it looks like she'll be bald there currently.
The scab/scarring looks like it's healed really nicely too.
@FraserBerryFarm I do think it looks promising. Babies and toddlers take forever to grow hair and for it to thicken. The first couple years half their hair follicles just basically sit dormant.
@TiffaniMarie483 I regularly babysat for a family trying to foster-to-adopt and holy crap it was just a series of gut wrenching developments every few months. Kids theyโd cared for getting abused on reunification attempts, โnever mindโ moments right before the papers were signed, it was so hard
@LadyNimby Exactly. You should've thought about that and accepted the possibility BEFORE you found yourself in that position then.
Maybe you'd be better off as a nun if you can't possibly cope with a family member having a disability and relying on you.
One of the sickest aspects of our culture is that many people see children as items that exist for the sake of the parent's wishes...
and not that the parents exist for the sake of their children's well-being. Their love for their child is conditional upon their own comfort.
Having children has made me a lot more pro-choice.
Taking care of children is hard. Part of the payoff is imagining them living full lives as adults.
I donโt know how anyone could find the motivation to take care of them if they knew that wasnโt possible. Thatโs why only religious people donโt abort in these situations.
Then you know that the majority of foster kids are not adoptable too right? Plus adopting a child with medical needs out of foster care can cost them their benefits which incentivizes families to not do that in order to maintain needed care for those kids.
Or are we just going to skip those facts?