I would normally have left my 9/11 post stand, but I came across the following story whilst exploring some blogs in Canada, and I find myself aghast. I then confirmed the story with the LA Times. Regarding Todd and Sarah Palin’s decision to keep their Downs Syndrome infant:
But a senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality. And thereby reduce the number of abortions.
What? Is this doctor absolutely insane? Have we devolved in society to such a point that, if a newborn isn’t precisely perfect, we must abort them, no questions asked?
Continuing:
Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Ottawa, worries that Palin’s now renowned decision may cause abortions in Canada to decline as other women there and elsewhere opt to follow suit.
There just happens to be a Downs child, Shane, living next door to me. He’s in his late 20s and enjoys his life. His mother, Darlene, considers him to be a blessing. He functions nicely, speaks well, walks, talks, enjoys going to the nearby swimming pool in the summer. He helps his mother in the yard, takes the bus to the nearby town. So because he may have been a “challenge” a time or two, he should have been aborted?
My God, how the Leftists and Socialists really are the Party of Negativism, Arrogance, Elitism and Death. Let’s just kill everyone, Leftists, and leave the world to the trees and rocks. And, by the way, you first.
BZ
I can just hear the wheels in their heads turning: DAMN IT!!!! Less abortions, DAMN IT!!!
Loathe the left.
I just shake my head. How can minds actually FUNCTION like that? I laughed like Hell when I heard Savage quantify Liberalism as a mental disorder. Now I’m really beginning to think so.
BZ
But they scream bloody murder if we kill something for dinner or electrocute a serial killer. Insane is not the word for it. Try evil.
Wasn’t it the NAZIs that demanded physical perfection for their Aryan race??
Sure sounds a bit similar to me…
A PURE race, free from ALL defects, wouldn’t that be automatons??
Shop: good word. Apologies; I forgot that one.
TF: why, that’s an excellent point, Fred.
BZ
Savage quantify Liberalism as a mental disorder.
Hmmm…possible genetic birth defect?
Abort! Abort! Abort!
J/K…but not really.
J/K….
Dont less abortions in Canada cost Health Canada less money then? They could put that money towards helping someone who is sick, OOPS, my bad thats not their job. Their job is DENYING help to those that need it. Sorry
Pretty powerful and to the point post. You did an excellent job at making your point referring to the boy next door with downs.
I read this article too, the other day and I am telling you it befuddled me. I can’t get over their crassness and how they claim to be out for the ‘little guy’.. the poor children whose parents spank them. Where self-esteem in a child is SO important.. SAVE DARFUR!! YET, they think it is o.k. to kill a baby just because it has disability, you know, the helpless little guy. WHat was it Barack said when he said that whatever you do unto the least of these you do unto me.. quoting Jesus.. I wonder how ‘the least’ (all the downs babies) applies to that Barack?
Remember how AP played up how bad the turnaround in Iraq was?
“Gravediggers face unemployment”
Gotta love the Left! Always the clouds amongst the silver linings…
I gotta tell ya…. there is definitely something in the air they breath in Onscario and Queerbec… Them people are just totally bent, and the sad part is that with rep by population, they control the friggen country… The infection they have some how went across the border, and infected a few people in Chicago, one of which is running for Pres….
The health care system in this country is screwed, and is consuming 89% of the budgets in some Provinces…. it’s going broke, and is gonna crash. The election on Oct 14th may only bring in measures to delay it a bit… and you have people that want to adopt this system?…. sheeesh…
Like you say BZ… this wingnut should be taken out and aborted, along with the rest of his ilk….
I’m with Shoprat, the left are clearly evil. “Murdering” serial killers, terrorist, and animals for food is not ok with them, but to kill a baby is totally fine.
Plus, this is the first time I heard a doctor actually encourage abortion, I suppose he gets a cut from everyone he does it on.
This is one of the most troubling things I have EVER read, BZ…..
“Loathe the left”…right.
As if I COULD any more than I DO NOW, right?
Good Lord! The liberals get more deranged every day!
And here I am with some health issues. I wonder how long it will be before they try to take me out, or anyone who isn’t 100% fit. Logan’s Run really doesn’t seem that far-fetched anymore, does it?
It is completely incomprehensible!!!!!
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BZ:
This is why I cannot vote for the Demoncats. This sick madness makes my stomach churn. Especially since my little son is only three months old. I recall wondering what the AFP screening results would be and my husband asked me what if something was wrong. I told him that I didn’t give a damn because God blessed us with a child and he would be perfect no matter what genetic issues he had (if any). I am lucky that he came out okay because before I found out I was pregnant, I wasn’t taking the best care of myself.
Although I don’t care for McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, I DO respect her and her husband for putting their money where their mouth was and keeping their son.
We truly live in a screwed up world when non perfection is met with scorn. It used to be that the upcoming birth of a child was a celebrated event. Now,the birthing process is institutionalized and unfortunately those who run the institution don’t seem to care about children at all!