Would YOU abort a disabled baby?

I want to know your opinions on this topic, post a comment or make a video response!

and sorry i look off my head in the video, i was pretty tired lol

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[xXannaluvXx]

No WAY would I abort a baby with a disability! But I guess it's a personal decision.

Have you seen the movie "Lessons from Tom".. I think that is what it is called. But it is about a 40 year old man with severe downs syndrome and he came across as the happiest, funniest, cutest person ever. After watching it I just felt so happy and uplifted.

[emmalinasdaniel]

@xXannaluvXx no i havent seen that one, it sounds good, ill have to check it out :) thanks man :)

[VonPopinjay]

Some good points, but with the disabilities you mentioned I would not abort but there other factors such as quality of life with other disabilities that would require a more reasoned approach.

[wheelchairby284]

I'm phyiscally disabled and I ski, SCUBA dive, and I'm a published writer on the subject of disability. Put your disbelief of religion aside- because when it comes down to it, it is actually extremely immoral and cruel to assume that a child wont live a full life. We don't need abortion- many times if a child does not have the will or to live, it won't.

[wheelchairby284]

to say you'd do it because you wouldn't want a child to go through the possibility of people mistreating them completely misses the point. Many of the problems that people with disabilities deal with are gone and they are able to live full lives. I myself am phyisically disabled, and an accomplished writer on this subject among many other things. It isn't the fact that these babies have disabilities that need to be fixed, it is the negative attitudes about disability that need fixing.

[Paiten13]

@nyker07 I am 18 year old with asperges syndrome. i was born with autism where I couldn't talk or have eye contact and my mum gave daily therapy and now I have asperges syndrome now I can talk and have a proper conversation. My family is not religious. I also have a rare physical condition where I need a wheelchair. It breaks my heart when people like you don't give people like me a chance. I live a a very normal life its just harder to do things. I am studying to be a special needs teacher aid

[tazluvpizza]

@airrocker001 So, we should make a "master race", correct? Abort the useless but keep the useful, right?

[tazluvpizza]

@nyker07

When is this going to end? Now we can choose between life and death because of being "disabled". How long until we make that choice broader?

[tazluvpizza]

@nyker07 Let me ask you this. Should we start aborting those who are "undesirable" and not according to our standards?

Should those people at school have been aborted who are in special ed.? Should my mentally disabled relatives have been aborted? Should I have been aborted just because I probably have autism/learning disabilities? Who are any of us to say should and shouldn't get to live? you know that's what happened in Hitler's day, right? He killed those mentally and physically disabled.

[tazluvpizza]

@nyker07 I've seen disabled people when I was at school. They may not be perfect, if you looked into so many of their faces you'd see life, happy lives. I know someone with down syndrome in my family. I only met him once but he deserves to live just like the rest of us. He's had such a special impact on my life. People like him change your life.

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[tazluvpizza]

@nyker07 How far would you take it? Would it be just down syndrome? Or would you abort autistic and cerebral palsy unborn children too?

Do you think it's ok to kill them after they're born?

It's cruel to force someone to live a life if they won't live fully? So, just don't let them live at all?

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[tazluvpizza]

First to respound to the video, I would never abort. It doesn't matter the condition. He/she'd still be a person, a very unique and one of a kind person. Besides, downsyndrome tests aren't always accurate. I'd love my little child no matter the condition!

[nyker07]

Think about it people...why do we put dogs down? Because they're suffering, they can't go about life normally, and we don't want them to be in pain. Same applies with abortions. A child could be born with anuses for eyes and some religious people would find a way to say it was a gift from god instead of aborting it. The people against abortion are bringing our species down. Why would you NOT want to eliminate disease? You want more burdens on the economy and in your life? Idiots.