“Virtually no systems in place” for helping mom of disabled baby
by Carder
But in our race to find heroes and villains, we fall victim to a common and dangerous error: treating the event as entirely a matter of free choice made by independent individuals guided only by their own moral compass. There is no need for context. And we certainly don’t want to talk about the social structures that might make the mother’s choice predictable and even understandable.
Buried in the story is the fact that the mother is a native Armenian, and the father is from New Zealand. In other words, the mother is from a country where doctors and family members routinely assume that a disabled child should not and cannot be kept at home.
Even worse: throughout the post-Soviet world, there are virtually no systems in place for providing even a minimal amount of useful information, let alone support, to a mother who has just given birth to a DS (Down Syndrome) baby.
~ Eliot Borenstein explaining the possible reason behind a mother threatening to divorce her husband if he kept their newborn Down Syndrome baby, Huffington Post, February 6
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Gee, Eliot, it’s not like Americans kill 90% of our Down syndrome children. Why do our doctors recommend abortions so frequently? Afraid the imperfect are gonna take up too many handicapped parking spaces?
Oh, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t judge. After all, judging is a worse crime than abandonment or abortion…
Related to this issue of how should the medical system address prenatal Down Syndrome detection, I just discovered TODAY a researcher who is illuminating the problems in this area. He is Bryan Skotko, a medical doctor with a master’s in public policy. He is at Harvard – once they find out what he is doing, he will have to be looking for another job – aborting “defective” humans is a leading political agenda item of communists.
http://brianskotko.com/
He has a good handful of peer-reviewed articles in Medline.
Will the imperfect take over too many parking spaces?
This is actually one of the modern arguments for eugenics. This includes Frederick Osborn’s “Preface to Eugenics.” He and others present this argument:
In the past, “mental defectives” did not survive, or were discrete victims of infanticide (abandoning or neglecting the handicapped soon after birth, etc.).
In the present, “they” have all of these “rights,” and we are helping them survive to reproductive age.
“They” are reproducing.
“They” (well-represented in low socioeconomic status) are reproducing more than “us.”
Therefore, “they” are watering down the gene pool.
Therefore, our species is destined for extinction.
Our only hope is to put elitist intellectuals in charge to decide who gets to live, who gets to reproduce, and who gets put to death for being genetically unfit.