Or, theoretically, if you knew you were going to be born handicapped would you choose to live or not be born?
2006-07-14 08:35:05 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
no i would not have thno is not fare form him or her. the baby has the right to be normal and have a normal childhood and ger older and have a normal life not is my call.
i know is hard but my sister is handicapped i ask my mother the same question she told me that she loves my sister with all her heart but if she knew she would not have her becase she is getting older and she can't take care of her. she doesn't trust many people only our family. If you can't be with this child all your life do not have it. is like having a little baby all the time.
i don't think adoption will do any good too many sick fuc* in this world to have a baby that will never be able to know right form wrong.
life is not a movie. you will get older and will not be able to take care of this baby this baby will not. my sister is 22 and she acts as if she was 3 years old. she can't talk and is so hard for my family and i to take her to school and to take care of her. i love her with all my heart and i will take care of her once my mother can't but is too hard. trust me is very hard to worry about someone every single minute of life. and to take care of someone all your life.
not having the child doesn't mean you don't love him or her it mean that you do not want that baby to have a hard life.
2006-07-14 08:41:30 · answer #1 · answered by 4ever21 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would. It would be a definite trial, but I'm against abortions in such cases. If you really don't want to raise a handicapped child, then have the baby and give it up for adoption so someone else can love it. I had a friend who knew her baby had trisomy 18, and she still carried the baby to term, but he only lived a couple of hours. She knew that would happen before he was born, but she was so glad she got to see him and hold him.
2006-07-14 08:40:08 · answer #2 · answered by Amber E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I'm sure it would be hard at times to care for a handicapped child, but in my opinion there is no choice involved. I would love my child no matter what, and there is no way I could ever give up a child or have an abortion because they weren't perfect. No one is really perfect anyway.
2006-07-14 09:24:40 · answer #3 · answered by StayAtHomeMom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's a tough one.
I guess if I knew I was having a medically needy child and there was enough knowledge out about the particular problem he/she had and I thought I could take care of it I would have it.
If I was having a child with a rare condition that I knew in my heart would be very hard for them to deal with, together with a lack of medical treatment for that ailment, I guess I would terminate early.
If I knew I was going to be born with major deformities I would choose not to be born at all. I know it's selfish, but it's the truth.
2006-07-14 08:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by melbel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, i would. my stepmom had cancer, and the doctor told her to abort the baby, cuz there was a VERY high risk that he'd be mentally and/os physically handicapped. she refused to, and when the baby was born, it was perfectly normal, and didn't have any handicaps! so, sometimes, the doctors are wrong. you never know, u could be aborting a perfectly healthy baby. and, if i was to be born handicapped, i dont know why, but i'd still want to be born.
2006-07-14 08:54:07 · answer #5 · answered by clueless 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would depend on the quality of life. Handicapped people can live very normal, active lives.
If it was more of a brain deformation (hydrocyphalis), then I don't think so. I would just feel that living as a vegetable is not really living.
2006-07-14 08:39:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would depend on the quality of the child's life. if it was seriously deformed and would die as soon as it was out of the womb, then maybe, but i'll never know until that situation has presented itselft to me. if it were a mental handicap, then i would still have the baby, mental disabilities won't stand in the way of having a wonderful life.
2006-07-14 08:43:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I wouldn't. What- if I died? A handicapped child is taken care of and happy as long as the mother is alive...Only God knows what happens next...
2006-07-14 08:41:50 · answer #8 · answered by Babz M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The disabled is one group that all of us can join at any time! If we're not born disabled, we can get that way by someone's carelessness or disease or just living long enough. Conversely, someone who is born disabled can be cured or work around it.
2006-07-14 08:39:17 · answer #9 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would still have the child. There is no way of knowing how trying it would be, but it is your child and even from the beginning there is unconditional love.
2006-07-14 08:44:53 · answer #10 · answered by Krissy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋