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Originally Posted by Makedde
You know the sad thing? If she were an animal, they would have shot her on birth.
That's the sad truth of it all - that can't be done for children born with defects like this - every effort must be made to save them, when their lives may be virtually pointless.
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Animals are shot when their existence is inconvenient, a threshold that can come quite a while before life is a curse.
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Originally Posted by SpankyTheWhale
You don't know what you are talking about in the same way that Seigi doesn't know what he is talking about. You both seem to have skipped a post or two. Retrace your steps in this thread.
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Yeah, I was referring to Julianna and didn't notice Makedde wasn't. You could be more specific though, I thought you were addressing my thoughts on her case. I stand by my opinion that aborting her would not have been in her best interests.
To any readers coming in: on the first post is link to a second case, the really cold posts are with respect to this case, which (although I can't find it in the case report) apparently has no brain. Literally. No thoughts, no pain, no hunger, no joy, no emotion, no sight, no hearing, no memory, no person. (Hence my use of the word "case" rather than "baby".)
http://www.obgyn.net/ultrasound/ultr...3/merchan_lbwc
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Originally Posted by Makedde
You mean to say that people would never be disillusioned with the way they look?
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Oh she'll be disillusioned. Heavily. A pity she can't be kept away from reflective surfaces for her early years. But being disillusioned doesn't automatically make life a curse.