tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post5742823411194382664..comments2024-03-19T18:36:41.875-04:00Comments on Yes, That Too: Abortion and Eugenics are not the same thing.Alyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413844178426365789noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post-34342446448811606962013-01-08T21:51:30.680-05:002013-01-08T21:51:30.680-05:00Getting a lot of views from a post about my commen...Getting a lot of views from a post about my comment. Seems like someone took "any argument that aborting a fetus is for the sake of the fetus is malarkey, always," to mean that aborting over disability is malarkey, always and for all arguments? That is a failure of logic.<br />There are other arguments that can be made.<br />Some of them are for the sake of living children. Some of them are based in eugenics. Some of them have nothing to do with disability. But if it is based on the well-being of the fetus that you are aborting, it is an excuse to make you feel better. Go think about the REAL reason, cause the kid ain't it.<br />I'm pro-choice. I just think you should be honest with yourself about why you are making your choices, and some reasons are just excuses to not think about the real ones.Alyssahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06413844178426365789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post-24976245331053344242013-01-08T12:10:18.978-05:002013-01-08T12:10:18.978-05:00I actually answered this in the post...
"If i...I actually answered this in the post...<br />"If it is not societal pressure, but is because the child will have a disability, it is based on eugenic principles, but iffy on actually being eugenics."<br />Some of the reasons you gave are based in eugenics, some don't even have anything to do with disability. <br />The only one that is neither is the group homes thing, which is a "And that's why you don't PUT someone in them, plus any argument that aborting a fetus is for the sake of the fetus is malarkey, always."Alyssahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06413844178426365789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426050656197929065.post-30841761859884329032013-01-08T12:01:55.729-05:002013-01-08T12:01:55.729-05:00So, if a woman decides to have a wanted baby abort...So, if a woman decides to have a wanted baby aborted because she finds out it has Down syndrome it that actually eugenics? She is not pressured by society to make this decision. She makes the choice to terminate the pregnancy based on the quality of life for the child, the potential variability in how severely the baby will be effected by Down syndrome which NO prenatal test can answer, her values, her age, her family life situation (existing number of other children), her financial situation, her suport (or lack of) and her love for the actual child not to want to put them through mental, physical & sexual abuse situations such as group homes that are notorious for neglect and/or abuse. Is THAT eugenics? Because I don't think it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com