I can see how you might think abortion was the right choice in this situation. I can't say that I wouldn't think so as well were the choice up to me. And I'm perfectly comfortable with people holding controversial opinions. I am past the issue of whether or not she should have been aborted. I don't care about that now. I want to address why I think your opinion is so disturbing, because I think my reasoning needs to be made more clear.
I just think that calling a human child with all the thoughts, emotions and inner life as any other human child a "creature" just because they have sever physical deformities is pretty disgusting, especially coming from someone who must have, in their lifetime, heard some pretty nasty things said about them just because they didn't fit someone's ideas of normal. Juliana is not a "creature". Calling her a creature is akin to calling a black person or a homosexual a creature. It is absolutely analogous to racism and homophobia. Because someone looks a certain way or was born with a different set of characteristics, they are automatically sub-human... in the eyes of bigots.
You can talk the pretty talk about opinions all you want. It doesn't change the fact that what you said and how you feel is a very real form of bigotry. And I hate to break it to you, but it's people who hold those same views as yourself who will make her life difficult. Don't blame her parents because you can't handle her. Blame yourself!
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