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Registered: March 10, 2005
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quote: Originally posted by Jenos: quote: okay wow..(I cant find the right words) other than youre such a guy...and I feel sorry for you.
Stop with the stereotypes.
I said that he was a "guy" (which he is believe it or not) because most girls wouldnt say they would abort a baby because it was going to have mental handicaps. Maybe I'm wrong, but ya know, since I am a girl myself, I have the right to say that.
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison
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Registered: May 03, 2003
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quote: okay wow..(I cant find the right words) other than youre such a guy...and I feel sorry for you.
Stop with the stereotypes.
I like these calm little moments before the storm.
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Registered: March 10, 2005
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quote: Originally posted by clpo13:
Personally, I can't stand kids, and having to raise a child who can't do anything on his/her own would be more than I would stand for. So if I knew my kid was going to be severely mentally challenged, yes, I would have my wife have an abortion, if she wanted to, that is.
okay wow..(I cant find the right words) other than youre such a guy...and I feel sorry for you.
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." - James Madison
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Registered: November 05, 2004
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Personally, I can't stand kids, and having to raise a child who can't do anything on his/her own would be more than I would stand for. So if I knew my kid was going to be severely mentally challenged, yes, I would have my wife have an abortion, if she wanted to, that is.
The more you know, the less you don't know.
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Registered: December 14, 2004
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I think I would choose to have the baby, unless he/she would die from her condition. However, I think parents do have the right to abort based on mental retardation.
They'll like us when we win - Toby Ziegler.
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Registered: August 30, 2003
Posts: 125
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hopefully, if I was having a kid with somebody in the first place, we'd have already made up our minds to take care of them no matter what---meaning if there was something that made them forever dependent on us we'd take up the responisibility. Just because the severely mentally challenged don't progress past early developmental stages and may not communicate doesn't mean that they don't have awareness or that they're incapable of feeling joy and fulfillment. A severely mentally challenged person might not be able to become a rocket scientist, but that doesn't mean that they can't live and take pleasure in simple things or that they'd want to die once alive. I can't even try to decide that for somebody...even if they are only a potential somebody....
An eye for an eye makes the world blind
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Registered: March 08, 2005
Posts: 170
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I definitly wouldn't abort a child just because it was mentally challenged (is that the right word?). Every baby is a blessing, and how smart they are shouldn't matter. The parents of kids that are mentally challenged that I know don't think of their child as a burden, but as a blessing, and they love them just the same.
Sing like you know the words, dance like no one's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
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Registered: December 11, 2003
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Yes, I'd abort it. No one deserves that life. If my child was autistic though, or had Asperger's, I'd let him/her live.
"Regardless, I have always, and will always, succeed."
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