Why is the world so eugenics-happy? (rant)

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I don't think anyone should be forced to have any child, a healthy or disabled one, so people are free to abort any fetus that they don't want to birth and raise or even birth then give to others to raise.

OP, would you have a problem with mothers letting die or killing their non-disabled kids? There you go.

I think ALL lives, whether disabled or not, are worthy of living.

It really bothers me that the same people who don't want other disabilities to be aborted actually don't want to make abortion illegal.

The reason that society has that type of mindset is because they don't believe that every life has value, which it does. They're unaware of the working disabled population who work at regular jobs along side their typical peers. They're unaware that the working disabled are actually helping out the economy because they're purchasing items with their own money which in turn makes for a stronger economy.

I'd also rather have a special needs child than a child that's practically perfect in every way. I love people and characters with disabilities so much, that I call them Sids after Sid from Flushed Away. :O)

it seems to me that the ones most enthusiastically into eugenics are the same people who look at me and think i'm one of those useless eaters because i'm not a big wheel.

Abortion is murder, eugenics is guaranteed as long as it is tolerated as abortion is considered an acceptable form of birth control. Pretty soon we'll probably have 'designer babies', humanity is in it's last throes before being superseded by machines. You can guarantee 100% if they ever find an Autism gene that the would be en mass maybe even required abortions, I bet they're looking for it very hard right at this very moment. Most people see the disabled as a burden and unworthy of life, seeing it as even sympathetic to extinguish it. How many people say they would kill themselves if they ever became disabled? How many people would straight up ostracize people who are disabled? It's a terrible affliction, people are terrible too, it all sucks as we live time of moral decay and societal collapse.

people with disabilities exist for a reason. that reason is not apparent to most humans, but to some, for sure.

"People with disabilities are a burden to society."
Tell that to Bill Gates, Temple Grandin, a surprising amount of U.S. Presidents (was looking up FDR because I forgot his name and stumbled on this http://askearn.org/exchange/disability- ... residents/ ), Michael Phelps, Albert Einstein... if none of these people were given a chance at life, a chance to build a career, a chance to speak up, the world would be very different today.

Awful lot of hypocrisy on here. I don't think abortion should be tolerated for the disabled any more or less than other lives.

Why do people get mad when I want to say abortion shouldn't be tolerated in general?

Good luck trying to stop people from getting rid of unwanted children. Even if you manage to stop the unwilling parents from letting them die, imagine what kind of lousy upbringing they’re going to get. If the parents are determined, they can very easily keep them too ignorant and helpless, with learned helplessness, to have a chance to survive at eighteen when they’re kicked out. If they’re smart, they’ll do it without doing anything that can legally be considered abuse or letting anyone else see any evidence that they’re being less than excellent parents. It’ll be the children’s fault alone that they fail to be viable adults.

The point is that anyone can be great if given the chance. Sure, most people won't be the next Einstein or anything like that, but everyone can do something meaningful with their lives, even if it's small, like being a janitor and keeping the school clean so kids don't get sick. If it weren't for janitors and garbage collectors we would still be getting the plague.

And I was talking about disability in general, not just autism. I think Michael Phelps has ADHD, and there's another swimmer whose name I forget whose chest caves in and swimming started out as a therapy and he got really good at it.

Most people I know are unwanted/accident/surprise children, including me. Their parents love them and they have meaningful, successful lives in their own way. If everybody's first response when faced with unexpected pregnancy was abortion, the world would miss out on a lot of awesome people, and their parents wouldn't know how awesome they were at parenting.