[tri-med] Re: Request for help, please

----- Original Message ----- (Let me vent for a moment, please)  Our kids 
 >are worth just as much, if not more, than the average person!!!  This gets 
 >me so irate.  I am so sick and tired of the doctors thinking they know 
 >everything and that they think they can choose who is "worth" saving.

Going to take the unpopular devil's advocate position here........what you 
need to remember is that the general population has a large number of people 
who feel the same way as the afore mentioned drs.

Look at the people on these lists whose own families ignore, devalue or act 
in a nasty manner to their children. Those family members/friends who were 
vocal, even after birth, that the pregnancy should have been terminated.

There are a lot of people who don't value others for varying reasons and 
there are MANY people who don't think that the disabled are a worth what 
they cost the government as they are not productive and/or participants in 
society. They are seen as a social and financial drain with no value.

This general feeling 'helps' the drs make the choices they do in terms of 
'terminal' illnesses....it's not just a medical issue but also a social one.

If there weren't the negative social mentality on this issue then most 
likely there wouldn't be a medical one.
They do go hand in hand.
And this is part of why more people don't get outraged and vocal about 
happenings such as Barbara experienced.

Michelle mom to Alex (20, partial trisomy 14 mosaic) and Molly (16)
MichiganUSA



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