Can confirm. Basically only religious people, generally conservatives, ever give a Downs baby a chance. See a Downs baby can never be a desirable status symbol to display to other upper middle class parents, will never play soccer (well), and will never get a 35 on the ACT, become a doctor, of anything else you can brag about. If you go to special Olympics you will find yourself in the company of people who are almost all more religious than typical.
Maybe i'm just horrible person. Please convince me that it's bad to abort a baby with down syndrome. Because religion? I'm against most abortion but if your baby is going to, for their entire lives, be a burden to everyone, isn't it unfair to them to knowingly bring them into the world?
Abortion is bad because it kills a baby. But a down syndrome baby is bad because it kills the parents, slowly over time as their resources get wasted on a nonproductive member of society. I'm talking about the drooling vegetables, not the the happy high functioners that end up bagging groceries. Problem is, you will never know which one it will be until it's too late.
Your normal kids, if you can have any, get screwed as your time is wasted on the severely retarded one if they end up being the severely retarded kind. I hate abortion, but I would not be willing to take the chance. Why risk having one like that, when you can try again and have several functional kids and a normal family? I feel like this is the natural conclusion people would make, but unfortunately, while natural things are good, nature doesn't care for being "nice" and "polite". The truth - that choosing to try for a normal family down the line is better than risking only having the one severely retarded child - is ugly, but it is the truth.
Can confirm. Basically only religious people, generally conservatives, ever give a Downs baby a chance. See a Downs baby can never be a desirable status symbol to display to other upper middle class parents, will never play soccer (well), and will never get a 35 on the ACT, become a doctor, of anything else you can brag about. If you go to special Olympics you will find yourself in the company of people who are almost all more religious than typical.
Maybe i'm just horrible person. Please convince me that it's bad to abort a baby with down syndrome. Because religion? I'm against most abortion but if your baby is going to, for their entire lives, be a burden to everyone, isn't it unfair to them to knowingly bring them into the world?
Abortion is bad because it kills a baby. But a down syndrome baby is bad because it kills the parents, slowly over time as their resources get wasted on a nonproductive member of society. I'm talking about the drooling vegetables, not the the happy high functioners that end up bagging groceries. Problem is, you will never know which one it will be until it's too late.
Your normal kids, if you can have any, get screwed as your time is wasted on the severely retarded one if they end up being the severely retarded kind. I hate abortion, but I would not be willing to take the chance. Why risk having one like that, when you can try again and have several functional kids and a normal family? I feel like this is the natural conclusion people would make, but unfortunately, while natural things are good, nature doesn't care for being "nice" and "polite". The truth - that choosing to try for a normal family down the line is better than risking only having the one severely retarded child - is ugly, but it is the truth.