Zionist Gentile. Proud Dad. Lucky Husband. Flawed Christian. Fellow at the Wuhan Institute of Kalashnikov Studies. #SalsaPrivilege#BlackGunsMatter#1A#2A
1. End the Drug War
2. Fix schools (likely through school choice initiatives or alternate funding mechanisms)
3. Reform/remove onerous occupational licensing regs.
4. Address the malincentives that led to the US leading the world in children being raised in single adult homes.
@cybelethebest@Hestia_Esq If you are talking about possible genetic therapy to correct the problem with the chromosome, that is an interesting question. Personally I would say it's not. You are correcting an error in development, not ending a life because of that error. Others may disagree.
@cybelethebest Much like how censorship need not be government sponsored neither must eugenics. It's a philosophy that can be implemented by force or persuasion.
Unfortunately the increasingly narcissistic character of our society makes us vulnerable to persuasion based on convenience.
@AlysssaHazel They've been milking the test and diagnosis for clicks and engagement for 2 weeks.
They are literal ghouls feeding off their own dead child.
I don't know who this gentleman is, but this is sad. I'm sorry for him and his wife. I don't want to reply to him and add to the pile-on, so I screenshotted this.
Abortion is wrong. There are very few cases in which it is medically necessary. We have an adult Down Syndrome daughter, and she is a person. There is, as Mr. Ridgway said, a glitch in her code, but she's still a person. (I've got a few bugs in my code myself, by the way. Don't you?)
European countries will talk about Down Syndrome being nearly eradicated, as if someone had developed a vaccine for it. But we know otherwise. Down Syndrome people are indeed disappearing from Western societies, but it's due to horrific procedures nobody wants to see.
Let's welcome all life, even Down Syndrome life. Do not give in to the coarsening of society and the callousing of our hearts, caused by abortion on demand.
Just learned that the couple who aborted their baby for having Downs was a) documenting the story for weeks for clicks and b) has a disabled dog they've spent tons of $$ keeping alive. Anyone who pretends this is some morally gray issue rather that straight-up evil is either stupid or lying.
There was a day when D was in the NICU that we thought we'd lose her. She'd had several spells overnight (moments when her heart rate or oxygen dropped significantly), and when I arrived, her nurse told me to 'keep her awake.'
Keep her awake.
I can't begin to put into words the anguish I felt in that one moment. I remember what I was wearing down to my shoes. I remember the bag I was carrying ... I remember her blanket that day.
Keep her awake.
I sat next to her Isolette, rubbing her back and reading to her through tears for many hours, scared to leave her side. At one point, the nurse came back and told me to take a break, so I went into the parent room and sobbed while calling my husband.
It was at that point in my life that I understood what it meant to kneel and pray. I prayed harder than I had ever prayed in my life. I made every bargain under the sun with God that day, even offered myself ... anything so that she could live.
Eventually, after many hours of crying, reading, praying, and more crying, the doctors figured out she was anemic; one small change to her meds and she was like a new preemie. They also put her back on CPAP to give her time to rest since she had struggled so much on the cannula.
The relief her dad and I felt in that moment ... there are really no words to describe that moment either.
Grateful doesn't begin to cover it.
Blessed.
Humbled.
I still cry thinking about that day, 20 years later.
Honestly, it's hard to explain to people who haven't watched very small babies (including their own) fight to live how important and valuable life truly is.
There is no greater gift than life. None.
And sorry, but there are no promises with any child; even 'normal' babies are a lot of work. Even 'normal' kids struggle ...
No guarantees, even if you think your baby is perfect.
Parenting is not about what you get from the child; it's about what the child gets from you. You are the reason they are here, so it's on you to do the best you can with what you have every day.
Perfect or not.
@ASFleischman@NRowe041726 You should be forced to print out this thread for clients to read before they hire you as an advocate. I’m not sure you could persuade me to eat a chocolate bar.
This is 1930s style eugenics. I understand that it sounds different in the original German but it’s still an ideology straight out of the third reich handbook.
@abbythelibb_@Shoshannah6623 Um no…there is nothing righteous in knowingly having a kid that will objectively be less of a person and struggle every single day. In fact, having a kid with downs is evil
@Stockb119987@BrentAWilliams2 Cool. I was initially taking it as if you were saying it’s an unrealistic fantasy. Then I reread and figured there was a possible alternate explanation.