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By: Sarah Palin Resigns « Letters from Glome

Sarah Palin Resigns « Letters from Glome — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:26:19 +0000

[...] From here it looks like the pro-abortion types on the left who spewed venom on Palin’s kids couldn’t stand the fact of Trig. The fact that the Palins knowingly brought a Down’s Syndrom child into the world flipped [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:52:17 +0000

“Much of the pro-abortion push originally came out of the eugenics movement of the 1930’s.”

Which were pretty much universally supported, even by doctors and churches.

Get yer history straight, kiddo.

As for the lunatic remarks about pro-abortion: I’m anti-abortion, but I loathe the thought of the government enforcing moral choices based on religious belief.

By: Cathy Adamkiewicz

Cathy Adamkiewicz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:36:50 +0000

I’m so busy applauding that I don’t know what to say..
My heart is simply overwhelmed with pain for those who don’t understand the great gift of Down Syndrome persons to our world.
If we lose our ability to show compassion, what have we become?
How dare we presume that those with Down Syndrome do not “contribute” to the world in a meaningful way?

By: Kate B

Kate B — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:28:35 +0000

that man sounds like a modern-day eugenist, next thing he’ll say is that she shouldnt be elected VP because the doesn’t have blonde hair or blue eyes

By: de libertate » Embarrassed to be a libertarian

de libertate » Embarrassed to be a libertarian — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:49:48 +0000

[...] the surface this seems like inflammatory and perhaps harsh, but I’m not sure myself. One blogger called it “pretty vile stuff” another blogger called him an asshole, repeatedly. The [...]

By: Right Wing News

Right Wing News — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:10:34 +0000

Memo For File LXXIV…

Quoting myself over at Cassy’s place, as usual, nurturing my bad software-developer’s habit of leaving absolutely nothing unsaid. The subject is this weird article written up by some asshole by the name of Nicholas Provenzo, who is “troubled by…[G…

By: Mike_M

Mike_M — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:29:31 +0000

Well since Provenzo shut down his comments, I’ll have to hope that he takes a peek.

I challenge him to go make this argument the next time the Special Olympics are held. Walk right up and tell everyone that they are marginally productive leeches and that aborting them would have been the “moral” thing to do.

I wonder if he has the intellectual consistency to do it?

By: Morgan K Freeberg

Morgan K Freeberg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:06:48 +0000

Further thoughts for Mr. Provenzo.

By: tasteslikechicken

tasteslikechicken — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:53:10 +0000

MK Friedman having attended to the other part already, I’ll react to the line about “worked his way up to the severely disabled kids.” I did that, too, on my first job out of college. I am still proud of that, and appreciate the beauty your brother found in the situation.

By: Morgan K Freeberg

Morgan K Freeberg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:35:07 +0000

I’ll field that one.

Nick, the subject under discussion is Sarah Palin, a woman who chose to carry the child to term.

Your hypotheticals have to do with women who, of their own free will, would choose to abort. That is how you are molding and shaping Cassy’s position — forcing a woman to carry a child to term.

Therefore, it is *you* who are lying and erecting straw men.

Back to the subject at hand.

Gov. Palin chose to carry her child to term, and you expressed your concerns. I don’t think it’s exactly going out on a limb to say you disapproved.

Like many, I am troubled by the implications of Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s decision to knowingly give birth to a child disabled with Down syndrome. Given that Palin’s decision is being celebrated in some quarters, it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome (or by extension, any unborn fetus)—a freedom that anti-abortion advocates seek to deny.

There, in a single paragraph, you twist the discussion away from the freedom to carry a child to term vs. being forced to abort, to the freedom to abort vs. being forced to carry the child to term. It seems you can’t quite keep your mind on the topic you’ve chosen to discuss.

This decision your making on behalf of these women, that they should be reviewing the pregnancy for a possible abortion based on perceived birth defects, *easily* leads to eugenics. Actually, I don’t want to speak for Cassy or others, but many of us would say you’re already there. Meanwhile, if you’re arguing about a woman’s right to choose abortion vs. carrying the pregnancy to term — then the question naturally arises, what is the point of your column in the first place?? Why be concerned? A woman chose. All’s right with the world, according to your own worldview, in the Palin household.