a question about pro-life and disabilities?

Question

okay, imagine someone gets pregnant and does not want to abort, the child is pretty positively going to be disabled in SOME (deformed? downs syndrome?) way, and they are going to put it up for adoption due to not being able to take care of it (lack of money? being way too young? raped?)

how many disabled babies really get adopted?

anyone care to put their opinion (keeping this example in mind,)?

i generally think the same thing as you, but there are so many happy disabled people in the world, albeit the obvious teasing and struggles they might have, they are generally happy, and if you are saying to abort it if you know it will be disabled, wouldn't that kind of be like saying lets kill all of the disabled people because they are going to struggle due to their disablity?

are you serious??
everything you said about the disabled person being lonely goes the same for a "smart" person who is "unattractive" being lonely and terribly depressed. what you are saying is completely ridiculous, that is just like saying that everyone who is lonely cannot overcome the loneliness. just because someone is retarded doesnt mean they cannot find love. i have seen couples with both downsyndrome. and you also implied that the only reason someone wouldnt abort a disabled child is because they would feel guilty. would you not feel equally, or more, guilty for killing an innocent life because it is disabled?

Answer 1

There are families who will adopt special needs children...however, I don't think a child should be put thru the trauma of being totally dependent on strangers who may or may not provide well for him or her.

Answer 2

I adopted my son 24 years ago. He was born with Down syndrome and addicted to cocaine. I wanted to adopt a baby - any baby. And he is the one who was first offered to me for adoption. I figured that you don't get to choose your children when they are born to you - why should you when you adopt them?

hI am SO glad that his mom did not know enough to get an amnio and abort him. I thank her each year about this time for being courageous enough to give him up. He is the light of my life and the best thing to ever happen to me. I think we were meant to be mother and son.

To old and not so wise: He has a very good life and that is why he is happy. He would not have had a happy life if he grew up with the family he was born into. It has nothing to do with IQ. You can be happy or unhappy with a low IQ -same as if you have a high one.

My son is far from lonely. He goes out with friends 3-4 nights a week. These are friends with and without disabilities.

When I am old and die he will still have these friends - and maybe even a wife. He is very popular with the ladies (ladies without disabilities I might add.)

People with disabilities have the right to life just as anyone else does. I am all for people having first trimester abortions when they see this embryo as a mistake. But once this embryo is viable - then for me abortion is off the tabel unless a mothers life is at risk.

"Statistics show that 90% of Down's Syndrome babies detected before birth are aborted- while at the same time adoption agencies have waiting lists of people who want a Down's Syndrome child to adopt."
http://www.helium.com/tm/129178/euthanasiacom-secondhand-smoke-document

Answer 3

It seemed to me when we were looking at adoption that there is virtually no such thing as an unwanted BABY, even with handicaps. It's older kids that can be hard to place.
I don't support the idea of eliminating handicaps by killing the handicapped. I felt this way even before I met, married, and had children with a man with spastic quadriplegia. You can't tell before birth or in the newborn stage what abilities a person will turn out to have.

Answer 4

I've known people who have adopted babies with Downs syndrome and even AIDS, and it takes a very special kind of person to do that. I am against abortion for convenience, but think people should have a right to terminate a pregnancy if there are serious abnormalities, the problem is deciding where to draw that line.

Answer 5

I don't know how many disabled baby's get adopted but we have a friend of the family that is about 27 yrs old and (this has nothing to do with it) but she weighs 100 lbs. and she gave birth to one downs syndrome and then she adopted another one with downs syndrome. And they really don't have money.. But i believe when you have God on your side you can do anything. That girl is such a blessing.

Answer 6

There are organizations that will take disabled children, there is one local in my state, The Galiliean Childrens Home, they take in kids from all over the world. They will give them the Love and medical care they need to have a happy productive life.

Answer 7

I don't know how many but there's a thing such as treatment foster care that is basically to keep the disabled, disinfranchised youths that weren't wanted by their parents for those reasons.

Answer 8

A life is a life, it is very precious. I don't think you should abort it's murder. It sounds like you have allot of unwanted luggage racing in your mind pray to god, listen to any answers he gives you let hi hep he will take all your worries and help.

Answer 9

I heard of an unborne baby already diagnosed with HIV and like six families wanting to adopt him. People will adopt those babies, too.

Answer 10

What is really going on inside the mind of a person who WANTS to adopt a disabled child? Do THEY need attention? And yeah most of the mentally disabled children are happy due to the fact that their IQ is about 50 points. And say that disabled child grows up? what kind of person wants to marry them? So they wind up lonely and disabled? and what happens if they need supervised care and the person who adopts them grows old and dies and no one is there to care for the grown up child? Now they have to go to a state facility where they could have possibly been thier whole life anyway if no one adopted them. Yeah these are alot of negative what if's.. but they need to be explored, why bring a child into this world that you dont want to raise yourself? because you might feel guilty.....

you know its funny how the only point you could argue against was lonliness...yes even "normal" people get lonely. No I would feel no guilt for aborting a disabled child. I espicially would not want to give birth to the kid and pass the burdon onto someone else. Why else would you give birth to a child you didnt want if it wernt for the fact that you would feel guilty about aborting it.