I remember reading somewhere that in Iceland, only 2-3 babies with Down Syndrome are born each year. The rest are aborted, just because they have Down Syndrome. It’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard of. I also heard of a mother whose doctor detected DS in her baby and SUGGESTED an abortion over anything else. Obviously, she replied “Heck no!” She said in an interview that she was absolutely mortified that her doctor even suggested that.
I also watched a documentary about parents with children who have severe cerebral palsy. All of the comments said “Thier bodies are just shells. They don’t deserve to live.”
Pre natal scans for Autism are being pushed for. And that most likely means more abortions to come.
This is the world we live in. People literally think that we don’t deserve to live just because we have an extra chromosome, or our brains work differently, or we can’t move our muscles. This is the world that ableist people have built, and pride themselves for “improving humanity.” But they’re not improving humanity. If anything, they’ve proved they’re inhumanity to the world by spouting such nonsense. By saying we don’t deserve to live. By supporting and even PERFORMING eugenics.
If you’re reading this, please know that you deserve to live. Your disability makes you wonderful and unique, and the world is a better place because you’re here. Don’t listen to the ableists. They’re totally and completely wrong.
I was born into an abusive family and nearly ended my life several times. I have PTSD and difficulty adjusting to normal social behavior. I press on and go to therapy and I’m better now, better than I’ve ever been. I’m going to go back to school, learn forensics, go to medical school. Maybe I won’t change much, maybe I won’t change the world, but my time working in a hospital taught me its the little things that mean the biggest to people who are hurting.
I don’t have to prove to anyone that I’m worth something, despite my pain and the difficulties. Fuck everyone who says I’d be better off dead.
I am disabled and mentally ill. I am an abuse survivor.
My life has value. I deserve to live despite my past and disabilities. In fact, I live TO SPITE my past and disabilities.
Every person deserves the right to live.
I was a child of rape. True, violent rape.
So many people would lead my biomom by the hand, drums beating and banners flying, to the abortion mill. Everyone would “””understand”””
but I’d not be. I’d never be. My life, even conceived in evil, has value. If even MY life has value, then all of yours does.
Don’t give up. Believe in the you that I believe in!
Not sure what this has to do with abortion though.
I guess it’s addressing people who abort babies who have dawn’s syndrome or other birth defects
And still. That’s not really a problem with abortion.
it’s definitely the issue with abortion. the philosophy of being pro-choice demands that you believe that human life is not intrinsic, but dependent on their circumstances (i.e. unborn, disabled, undeveloped) and changeable.
say what you will, say abortion helped you, all the power to you. but to be pro-choice requires that some humans assign values to others, rather than all being equally valuable.
it’s the dependency on a mother’s resources and body that’s the issue, right? Because it violates her rights to autonomy, we have the right to destroy it. well, autonomy isn’t just bodily. autonomy can be financial. no one has a right to your money or your house or car. those things are yours, and that’s why stealing them is a crime.
should we be able to kill whatever violates my autonomy? a newborn child violates the autonomy of hospital and parental resources. it cannot exist independently. it is dependent in its nature. and since abortion advocates perceive some humans as less valuable due to their dependency on the resources of others, it should also be morally correct to terminate the life of a newborn child. because it violates the bodily and financial autonomy of the people around it, who must give their bodily labor and financial resources in order that it may survive.
i don’t think I am being dishonest here, am i? that’s the logical, most consistent conclusion of the pro-choice argument. unless you would like to clarify for me why you don’t care about financial and bodily autonomy unless it’s pertaining to abortion?
Can I also just include that there is a grave difference between some stranger trying to use something of yours by force and a human being who was forced to be dependent on you.
Obviously, someone coming into your house is an intruder, but if someone is in my house against their will (because of MY actions 99% of the time), then they are 100% completely innocent and deserve to be moved from a dependent state to an independent one peacefully. It isn’t their fault that they are there in the position they are in. And most of the time, it is honestly your fault.But regardless, the point is they are there against their will. They are innocent!To betray someone in that position is completely corrupt and an act of aggression because you are taking advantage of something completely innocent and vulnerable. An act of dominance against the innocent is always aggression. Not to mention that this human being is your own flesh and blood. Regardless of how bad you have it, you cannot be seen as equally vulnerable when you are the dominant person in that kind of a situation.
Abortion is an abuse of power and government is suppose to be there to end the abuse of power. Obviously not by eliminating power(that’s not possible nor is power inherently bad), but by balancing it all out so that no one is taken advantage of. Especially the vulnerable since they are at the biggest risk of abuse.
Except you weren’t a human. You were a fertilized egg. You were the beginning stages of mitosis. Not a human.
Right sorry. Things magically become human at birth. Lol forgot.
Actually…
Your cells, skin cells, feet cells, heart cells, muscle cells, brain cells, etc. have DNA. That should be no surprise to you.
What is surprising is that the cells in your skin hold the DNA for your heart. The cells in your lungs hold the DNA for your feet. The cells everywhere in your body hold all the DNA for every other cell. Touch your tongue. You’re touching cells that hold information for your intestines, your stomach, your eyes, ALL of you.
Excluding red blood cells, of course, since they have no nuclei and therefore no DNA.
But here is where it is interesting.
In fact, when the embryo grows this big, it has the same exact genetic information as before. There is more DNA, but the DNA is the same. It only reprints the same instruction manual over and over.
Just one cell of this embryo holds all the DNA for gender, hair color, nose shape, the length of his/her toes, any genetic disorders, and even gene-influenced personality traits. So, even if this embryo is not human to you, the only thing it will ever be is human. It has no DNA to be a frog or an oak tree. It only has the DNA to code and form a human.
All of those cells are human cells. How could you say they are not human? What else could it be? Certainly not a frog, certainly not an oak tree!
All humans are deserving of life. All lives are worthy of protection.
Lee Jong-rak is the South Korean pastor who created the “Baby Box”. The idea is that mothers who do not want their babies can leave them inside the box which includes a thick towel and lights and heating to keep the baby warm. When a baby is placed inside the box, a bell rings in Lee Jon-rak’s home which the box is attached to, and he or a member of his staff will go and collect the unwanted baby and bring them inside to his orphanage. Hundreds of babies are left abandoned at the side of the road in South Korea yearly and Jong-rak knew the perfect way to save the lives of these innocent babies. There is a sign above the drop box which reads: “Place to leave babies.” He confessed that he didn’t expect the box to be as popular as it has been. On one occasion a mother dropping her baby off explained to him that she had poison to kill herself and her baby but because of this box, she had an alternative. On another occasion, a baby was left with this heart wrenching note:
“My baby! Mom is so sorry. I am so sorry to make this decision. My son! I hope you to meet great parents, and I am very, very sorry . I don’t deserve to say a word. Sorry, sorry, and I love you my son. Mom loves you more than anything else. I leave you here because I don’t know who your father is. I used to think about something bad, but I guess this box is safer for you.That’s why I decided to leave you here. My son, Please forgive me.”
I woke up this morning in the shadows of Cinderella Castle, to a phone call from a friend who knows my story well. She informed me of a recent tweet by Planned Parenthood regarding the need for a Disney Princess who’s had an abortion.
“We need a disney princess who’s had an abortion / We need a disney princess who’s pro-choice / We need a disney princess who’s an undocumented immigrant / We need a disney princess who’s actually a union worker / We need a disney princess who’s trans”.
In 1981, I worked as a Singer/Dancer at Disney World, where my voice was used in recordings as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty for special events and ongoing shows. I performed, on average, five shows a day in front of Cinderella’s castle, singing and dancing to “Some Day my Prince Will Come” and “When You Wish Upon a Star.” At the age of 18, I became pregnant and had an abortion to keep my job as a singing princess. There was no pressure from the company or management to abort my baby. I didn’t tell them. But I made a decision on my own that I quickly lived to regret.
In the immediate days following my abortion, I struggled deeply. I continued to sing songs in front of the castle about dreams coming true, but eventually had to quit my dream job due to my inability to reconcile my decision within myself. I wanted to die.
Eventually, I found healing. It was an arduous struggle to navigate my personal grief. But by the grace of God, I am living an amazing life.
I married a great guy (my prince). A few years later I gave birth to a beautiful daughter. I conceived my son on the first trip back to Disney World following my departure. I went on to advocate for orphans and adopted five children. I am the mother of one daughter from Guatemala who was born to someone I see as a Guatemalan Princess (14 years old at the time she gave birth to my little girl). She decided NOT to abort her baby. My daughter Matéa’s name means “Gift from God.”
Three of my children watched their mother die from AIDS in Ethiopia. Their Ethiopian Mother Bayoush resembled a gorgeous African Princess. They were left alone in the world, and we were blessed to adopt them.
My son Alec was labeled invalid and almost sent to die in an orphanage known for rampant abuse in Ukraine. We adopted him from the baby home when he was 5. His mother (Princess) Tetyana made a difficult decision in giving birth to her baby and then abandoned him at the hospital at two days old. Her bravery in giving her child life before she died has been a gift to us.
We are a blended family of immigrants and American born children representing Jewish culture, Christian, British Royal heritage, Hispanic, Ukranian, and African. And we all are a Disney family beautifully woven together by God’s grace and living in the shadow of Cinderella’s castle in Orlando.
Planned Parenthood defended their tweet with the following:
“Today, we joined an ongoing Twitter conversation about the kinds of princesses people want to see in an attempt to make a point about the importance of telling stories that challenge stigma and championing stories that too often don’t get told,” said Melissa Reed, Planned Parenthood’s president and CEO. “Upon reflection, we decided that the seriousness of the point we were trying to make was not appropriate for the subject matter or context, and we removed the tweet.”
I am in the process of writing a book about Cinderella, focusing on the incredible strength of Cinderella in overcoming life in the fire and ashes as an orphan herself. She was tortured and enslaved by the ugly stepsisters, who didn’t understand her story and tried to rewrite her destiny by taking away her rightful position standing next to the King. Cinderella defied her stepmother and stepsisters in taking the throne by storming the castle gates adorned in supernatural favor to battle for her happily ever after.
Disney doesn’t need a princess who has had an abortion. For years feminists have been princess bashing because they clearly don’t really grasp the depth of the princess stories that have already been told of overcoming evil, beauty rising out of the ugliness of the world, empowering love that is willing to slay dragons, resurrecting life after evil witch potions threaten to poison and demanding true love in a world that wants to rewrite the happy ending into something less romantic. Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Merida, Ariel, Mulan all represent strength, power, grace, favor, determination and beauty out of ashes.
Abortion doesn’t empower.
Cinderella, in defying her stepmother and sisters, has been empowering women for thousands of years. Cinderella, the orphan girl, enslaved by the women in the house and her story cannot be improved upon. A slave girl breaking down a door meant to keep her from her destiny as queen (locked by the women assigned to take care of her) speaks volumes to our daughters. Cinderella, poised in her tattered servant clothing walking into the room to place her foot in HER glass slipper before the prince, shows us about grace and dignity. Cinderella claiming her destiny and position as queen, even as the abusive stepsisters try to keep her from it, reminds our daughters that oftentimes beauty, purity, determination and grace through the fire — wins.
My family walks down Main Street USA to gaze upon Cinderella’s castle almost daily. We are strong, happy, peaceful. The princesses in my home represent Africa, Guatemala, America. I brought my children to live here as a reminder that orphans can take a position on a throne inside of a castle and that dreams do come true. The princess stories that exist cannot be improved upon by any of the think-tank sessions inside of Planned Parenthood. It’s time to stop the Princess bashing and understand that iconic fairy tales cannot be improved upon by a politically motivated agenda.
Maybe the reason Planned Parenthood wants to rewrite the princess stories is that stories of evil witches in pursuit of killing off beautiful princesses have already been told. I guess they don’t like their part of the story.
damn, guess fetuses arent “parasitic clumps of cells” after all
People who consider babies parasites are sociopaths. It isn’t even a correct classification lmao it is a product of natural human reproduction. Its like people forgot that the actual purpose of sex is to reproduce.
A “Hand of Hope” and the earliest human interaction ever recorded!
This photograph shows a 21-week-old unborn fetus reaching out towards the surgeon during an in-the-womb surgery.
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother’s womb. The operation should have been performed while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. The uterus is then restored back inside.
As the surgeon completed the surgery, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed, hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon’s finger, as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life.
Via @medicaltalks 🕊
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