When his grandson with Down Syndrome was born, he resolved that he would never
abort a child with Down Syndrome again (currently, over 90 percent of children with Down Syndrome are aborted).
It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to
abort a child with severe birth defects.
Not exact matches
That
aborted children are disposed of as so much medical garbage is of a piece
with society's denial of their personhood.
instead of allowing
children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing kids
with down syndrome to be born into the homes of junkies and illiterates, we can
abort the
children OR every person who shows up at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take home and raise.
If parents may
abort a fetus
with Down's syndrome — whether to make room for another baby, to spare it a life of possible frustration, or simply to avoid the expense and fatigue of caring for a retarded
child — then they may also painlessly kill an infant.
I replied
with how about when a mother (who has other
children) requires medical care that will require the fetus to be
aborted as a situation.
I do not want 14 year old girls going into a back alley
with a coat hanger, or having someone repeatedly punching them in the stomach to
abort an unwanted
child.
And we are to speak, we who
abort while in the birth canal, who infect women and
children with STD's, etc., etc..
So... if the country is about half pro-life and half pro-choice, but» (90 %) of unborn
children diagnosed
with Down syndrome are now
aborted,» that means that the vast majority of pro-lifers would rather have an abortion than a
child with Down syndrome.
After a woman said she wouldn't know what to do if she became pregnant
with a
child with Down's syndrome, Dawkins tweeted: «
Abort it and try again.
The conflict between the mothers who choose not to
abort a Down syndrome
child and these who do is salient at the Web site «The Ragged Edge,» where the mother of such a
child expresses her disgust
with «A Heartbreaking Choice»: «In other words, their fetuses had no value as imperfect living beings.
Terry Teachout is uncomfortable
with the concept of an evidently religious and certainly socially conservative composer, John Boyle, composing a requiem for
aborted children.
Did you know that the majority of
children who are diagnosed
with Down syndrome internationally will be
aborted?
More than 90 percent of French
children prenatally diagnosed
with Down syndrome are
aborted.
According to some academic studies, more than 90 percent of French
children prenatally diagnosed
with Down syndrome are
aborted.
The mother who raises (rather than
aborts) a Down syndrome
child is falsely made equivalent «in other contexts,
with creativity» (not by Moran, but by the self - defined creative class).
I would suggest that it's due to an awakening to the real pain that promiscuity and abortion entail; others might say that it's actually based in «rights talk,» that young people identify
with aborted children (as of this January 22, anyone under the age of thirty could have been
aborted) and see abortion as an attack on their siblings and classmates, rather than a matter of women's self «determination.
2) blood type has nothing to do
with how the
child develops, outside the odd occurance of the RH factors being different and the mother's body (created by god according to you) attempts to
abort the foriegn body (fetus) because it doesn't blend in
with the mother's defence systems.
The parents of
children with Down syndrome could have
aborted.
My wife had awoken to the same reality, and in one of the most galvanizing moments of our marriage,
with firm voice she informed the doctor that she would never consider
aborting a
child within her womb.
Oh Jayne I don't know if I could
abort so far into a pregnancy either.Abortion is such an emotive subject especially when you have to carry the burden around
with you all your life.As you say if a
child is so severely disabled their quality of life and yours would justify it.I'm glad all is ok
with you and the baby and I'm looking forward to seeing the little bub when she arrives x Aly recently posted... Mamarazzi - Are You Constantly Taking Photos Of Your Kids?
At issue this time is whether it would be ethical to use eggs from an
aborted fetus to provide an infertile woman
with a chance to have a
child.
«It would be difficult for any
child to come to terms
with having been created by
aborted fetuses.»
Together the three sections, irrelevantly uneven in quality, make bold statements: the legalization of abortion has made it no less controversial; the decision to
abort is fraught
with as many complexities as the decision to bear the
child; all men are pigs (hey, I agree); etc..
The local judge (Graf, The Brady Bunch Movie) in the small town is so fed up
with seeing her face, and the fact that she has had four
children already (all of which had to be given up for adoption due to their mother's behavior), that when he discovers she is pregnant again decides to make law history and have her put in prison for endangering the life of her fetus, making it clear he would be a bit more lenient
with her if she were to have it
aborted.
But then he meets Mary (Amanda Seyfried), who begs him to counsel her husband, Michael (Philip Ettinger), a radical environmentalist so consumed
with his fears of the Earth's impending doom that he wants Mary to
abort their unborn
child.
The Communist Chinese regime has been at the forefront of global «population - control» schemes, forcibly
aborting and sterilizing hundreds of millions of innocent people
with UN assistance as part of its ghoulish «one -
child» policy.
When it was time to
abort the mission around 10.30 pm, I wobbled into a cab
with a big wig and a
child - man who I presumed was some up - and - comer... so I kindly asked what he did at the company and the old bloke chortled «he runs it»!