Her smile can light up a room. Her hugs make all the problems of the world melt away, if only for a few minutes. Now, prenatal testing is getting “rid” of those that are imperfect.
i do not mean to say that those that abort are bad people. i didn’t know there was anything wrong with Taylor before she was born, so i can’t imagine what it’s like to carry a child to term that you know is going to have a disability. i do know that it wouldn’t have mattered if i had known. While i do not judge those that chose to abort for whatever reason, i do know it would never be an option for me.
Even knowing the heartache that Master and i are going through right now with Taylor’s deteriorating health, it doesn’t take away from the good she brings to our lives.
i just wonder what it will be like in several years, when there are very few disabled kids. Will that mean that the “normal” person will have less of a tolerance for those that do have disabilities? i was told by an insensitive case worker, when Taylor was only 2, that i shouldn’t have had her…that with all the prenatal testing, she couldn’t understand why i would give birth to a “drain on society”. Yes, my mouth hung open as i’m sure yours is doing now.
No one wants their child to have problems. God knows Master and i do not want Taylor to suffer. But God had a purpose for her life, otherwise she would not have made it to term.
- Some ethicists now go so far as to argue for a "duty" to abort a baby with a Down diagnosis. This is an assault upon the dignity of every human being. The fact that so few Down syndrome babies now make it to birth is a sign that America is making its own pact with the Culture of Death.
Back in 2005, ethicist George Neumayr commented: "Each year in America fewer and fewer disabled infants are born. The reason is eugenic abortion. Doctors and their patients use prenatal technology to screen unborn children for disabilities, then they use that information to abort a high percentage of them. Without much scrutiny or debate, a eugenics designed to weed out the disabled has become commonplace."
http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1144
This just seems so sad to me. While Taylor doesn’t have Down’s Syndrome, she does share the basis of it. She has an extra chromosome, albeit hers is rarer than Down’s, it just has to make you think. Are people as a whole going to be less tolerant of the disabled? i realize i asked this earlier in my blog, but it is a question that begs to be asked again and again, just to get people to think.
Is my child any less valuable than a “typical child”? my answer to that question is a resounding NO! If anything, she is more precious as she has the ability to make parents of healthy kids get down on their knees and thank God they are not on the same road i and countless (though fewer) parents are on.
So, kathleen…that was the journal topic that i had in mind to write. i hope it was worth your wait. And yes, it is sort of a rant, although it is rather mild compared to others. *smiles*
3 comments:
Even before i had an atypical child, i very much developed a love of such precious children. i must, i just finished up six years obtaining a degree to teach them. And yes, the world is full of people that believe in eugenic abortion; BUT there are just as many (if not more) of us that believe its wrong. We just need to keep faith in humanity-albeit at times its so damned hard.
Keep hanging in there. It seems our princess' are on our minds at the same time sister dear; wonder if that is a sign of the times to come? The good times...(smiles)
This is a Scripture that I have always thought about when I ponder these types of issues, including my own disability:
As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.
John 9:1-3
I wonder why the hell did I ever become paralyzed and my life changed forever?
It is amazing how many people we affect in our lives and how God uses us to help others.
That is a loving God, unlike some of the other crazy cults in the world. It all starts in the heart.
It's a wonderful life comes to mind here too. How many people have enjoyed and are blessed by Taylor and her sweet, unjudgemental, eternal childlike attitude? Hundreds, probably thousands over her 18 years, not to mention her family on a daily basis.
I did not intend to hijack your journal (even though I can do that since I own you!), but I, like you feel strongly about this.
I know how much people would miss out, if they chose to kill someone like our Princess without even giving the child a chance.
Master
i feel just as strongly as all three of Y/you do. There is a saying that "history is doomed to repeat itself" does anyone remember Adolf Hitler?
hugs to you and your Princess,
i wish i could experience just one of her hugs or inocent smiles.
kathleen {SG}
Proud to be called doulos to
Jesus Christ and Sir Geoffrey
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