The other day I saw a very rare person...a toddler with Down's syndrome. There has been a huge decrease in the number of babies born in the US with Down's Syndrome. While most people would think that a decrease in babies being born with Down's is a good thing, it really isn't. I didn't say that there was a decrease in the number of babies being diagnosed with Down's, just the number of them being born. Because we have improved our ability to diagnose conditions in-utero, we are able to know if a child will have Down's early in a pregnancy. Due to this, up to 90% of babies with Down's are killed before they are born.
I don't have any children with Down's, but do have children with other special needs. I know that I wouldn't have ended their life if I had known before they were born, so I really don't understand how a woman can end a life just because they aren't perfect.
What is a perfect person? Does having physical and mental difficulties make you expendable? In our society it does. What will happen as we increase the number of conditions we can diagnose during pregnancy? Will ADD/ADHD or Autism be grounds for killing babies? What about the ones they miss? Do we kill them if they are diagnosed after birth?
Our society's fixation with perfection has lead us to exterminating people. The human race has done that before and it cost over 6 million people their lives in the gas chambers and another 60 million on the battlefields, towns and cities.
Are we headed down that road again? I hope not, but as I watch the euthanasia and abortion factions push for more deaths due to imperfection, and we speed towards rationed national healthcare, I don't see how we can avoid it.