tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762973281804900132.post4527753657843261663..comments2019-12-21T17:29:47.466-08:00Comments on A Thought of Her Own: A ban that I could really get behind.CCKlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01595435875402929138noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762973281804900132.post-2696039636679316812012-07-08T08:07:27.971-07:002012-07-08T08:07:27.971-07:00Contemporary surgical precedures for complications...Contemporary surgical precedures for complications related to Down Syndrome have a 97% likelihood of success. COULD a child fall into that 3 percent and die after such a surgery is performed? Sure. But, in most cases, Down Syndrome becomes fatal only when the parents decide that it's going to be, by withholding surgery.Safepreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02413820592803882296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762973281804900132.post-56076159114534261182012-07-07T14:04:52.955-07:002012-07-07T14:04:52.955-07:00I'm still going back to levels of severity for...I'm still going back to levels of severity for this issue. While one disability such as Downs may be a mild case, another (along with related complications) can be fatal. And regardless, I feel that a woman should have the right to choose. But aborting because you wanted a girl and got a boy, or vice versa....no.CCKlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595435875402929138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762973281804900132.post-54014318532408966272012-07-07T12:22:28.019-07:002012-07-07T12:22:28.019-07:00My colleague Joe would call this post and example ...My colleague Joe would call this post and example of "The Cultural Double Standard" regarding abortions for disability vs. sex selection. You are horrified by sex selection abortion because you live in a Western country where women have a lot of freedom and the idea of one gender being preferable to the others is known to be wrong. <br /><br />Disability, like gender, is a form of diversity. Hence, abortions performed to address non-fatal disabilities are selective abortions, just like those done to address gender. A woman aborting for gender is no more "shallow" than one aborting for Down Syndrome. Both kinds of abortion involve a judgement about the life the child would live and the exercise of a preference not to embrace that life.Safepreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02413820592803882296noreply@blogger.com