Is it wrong to starve a child to death just because she has Down syndrome?
That's exactly what happened in 1982 when parents of a newborn with Down syndrome named “Baby Doe” withheld a common surgery to help the baby digest food.
The case made national news and, even though the hospital fought the decision, the courts sided with the parents, who allowed their child to die of dehydration five days later.
In 1984, the “Baby Doe amendment” was added to the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in order to prevent hospitals from withholding food, fluids, or medically indicated care to children merely because they are disabled.
But if it is wrong to starve a child to death just because she has Down syndrome, then surely it is just as wrong to dismember a child in the womb because she has the exact same condition.
In fact, there is a term for this kind of discrimination against the disabled: ableism.
Our society has learned that people with disabilities are still people, and so we reasonably accommodate them with things like handicapped parking and braille on signposts.
But aborting someone because he is disabled is, to put it mildly, not very accommodating. And when it is done systematically, it is a form of social oppression against marginalized communities.
Just as we wouldn’t euthanize a child who became disabled through an accident or an illness, we should not kill a child in the womb for the same reason.
People who are using Artemis II to say SpaceX is bad are so funny because the very intelligent people at NASA, who they're glazing, love SpaceX.
NASA repeatedly trusts SpaceX with their astronauts, satellites and probes, and have contracted SpaceX to land astronauts on the Moon. The two work together and benefit each other.
Anyway, there is no point arguing that NASA/SpaceX is better than the other because they are fundamentally different. SpaceX provides cheap, safe and reliable launch services for economic interests. NASA does science and R&D for national interests.
I know the hate mainly comes from Elon being the CEO and that's just dumb. If you don't like the guy running a company, that doesn't mean the company's products are bad, dangerous or immoral to use.
I hope a dislike of SpaceX just an opinion held by the loudest, most annoying people and not the average person because SpaceX will be heavily involved with a lot of future missions in space and I don't want that to effect the public's opinion and enjoyment of space exploration through pointless discourse like this.
THE #NFL HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE REFEREES.
THIS WAS CALLED A CATCH FOR THE #RAMS.
LAST NIGHT THIS WAS CALLED AN INTERCEPTION FOR THE #BRONCOS AGAINST THE #BILLS.
NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA WHAT THE ACTUAL RULE IS.
THIS IS A COMPLETE DISASTER.