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Originally Posted by Makarov
Yes, I absolutely agree with that. That is a horrific devaluing of the lives of disabled persons and really cannot be tolerated (in Canadian society anyway).
EDIT: Although, on second thought, is it intolerable if a person chose to abort a fetus because a doctor diagnosed (within the first couple of months for example) that the child would be born with some horrible disablility? I don't know. These are actually quite interesting moral problems.
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There was a time when severely disabled kids were put to one side of the delivary room at birth and it was left to fate to decide, most just passed away in the first few minutes, it is weird and unfortunate that medical science has advanced to a point where they can keep just about anything alive without really considering whether that is, in and of itself, a good thing.