Individual Autonomy and Systemic Devaluation

Individual Autonomy and Systemic Devaluation
Bruce Uditsky, question and panel response
The Modern Pursuit of Human Perfection: Defining Who is Worthy of Life
A Public Dialogue
October 23, 2008, University of Alberta

Category:

Education

Tags:

• human perfection
• eugenics
• What Sorts Network
• AACL
• CACL public dialogue

[draphaelc]

The real concern is possibly misidentified given the line that what they are doing is to eliminate lower IQs while we are actively fed HFCS, MSG, Nutrisweet, psychoactive chemicals, etc. to chemically lobotmize all of us into docile zombies. With the common themes in the action of these substances, I think any possibility of coincidence can be eliminated. What's really up? THINK NOW!

[tdhssp]

This is clearly a disservice and over-lap whereby impartial law cannot transpire when representative litigator is employed by the government

Furthermore, to add insult to injury and high-light the absurdity of situation: The same solicitor openly referred to Samantha during legal proceedings as, "It".

[tdhssp]

The woman refers to the child as one who "suffers" from her chromosome diagnosis. Anyone who knew Samantha can attest that she did not suffer from her condition, but was a most happy-go-lucky child. Other families whose children are similarly diagnosed with the chromosome duplication syndrome, Tetrasomy 18, will intuitively know this truth from experience.

A hearing to ascertain that the child's life will be well-represented was held.

[tdhssp]

Frankly, the unknown can be terrifying. Then, perspective is altered:

I knew her. I loved her. I saw that despite slower development, she was simply a little girl. A beautiful little girl with a mind of her own, who was loving and mischievious and just simply HER.

The lawyer who will speak about the child, of course, comes into the picture following the little girl's death. She has no idea WHO Samantha was. No amount of education appears to be able to enlighten, however...

[tdhssp]

The solicitor assigned to Samantha's case, for example, is a young woman who frankly, is not someone easily to relate to whatsoever. Perhaps she is simply not attune to families, has never experienced motherhood or has had the opportunity to know and appreciate that all human life is valuable. Until the birth of a child who is diagnosed with, for instance, a genetic condition, the privilege of knowing an individual with an outward disability may be foreign.

[tdhssp]

There is a Fatality Inquiry for a little girl, Samantha Martin, in Alberta, Canada. One that the family, insisted upon because if there is a possibility to prevent the loss of other vulnerable children, then this must transpire.

What has truly been most difficult to process is the leadership of authorities who view children with disabilities as less important that individuals without medical/developmental difference. It has been a most eye-opening and staggering position to find oneself in: