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In the discussion thread: Santorum: Obama is CULLING the Disabled through Abortion [View all]

Sun Feb 19, 2012, 11:12 PM

Odin2005 (48,255 posts)

22. Anti-choice attitudes are common among the autistic community for that reason.

And I'll admit, that my own fear of Eugenics had put me at odds with some "choice absolutists". We need to be really careful about the intersection of abortion and pre-natal testing lest the specter of Eugenics raises it's ugly head.

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25 replies	Author	Time	Post
Santorum: Obama is CULLING the Disabled through Abortion [View all]	K Gardner	Feb 2012	OP
run of the mill republican BS	Cosmocat	Feb 2012	#1
Nope, projection, wrote a song about it, and it goes like this.	WingDinger	Feb 2012	#5
Yup.. agreed, and I wrote one too...	K Gardner	Feb 2012	#7
Here is another philosopher on the subject.	WingDinger	Feb 2012	#9
oh. my. god. n/t	K Gardner	Feb 2012	#17
Reminds me of "death panels" and every other outrageous lie	BootinUp	Feb 2012	#2
Look at the following link: He says the Netherlands euthanizes	K Gardner	Feb 2012	#18
Interesting they see no "choice" aspect	treestar	Feb 2012	#3
But if there is extremely strong social pressure saying...	Odin2005	Feb 2012	#23
This is Hitleresque in its implication. Nothing less than. n/t	K Gardner	Feb 2012	#4
+1 nt	steve2470	Feb 2012	#24
They seem to want to have the	Worried senior	Feb 2012	#6
Right, so the disabled poor get.. what? n/t	K Gardner	Feb 2012	#8
Republicans prefer to "cull the disabled" the old fashioned way.	Denninmi	Feb 2012	#10
Exactly. No one bothers to point this out in interviews, tho..	K Gardner	Feb 2012	#15
but making sure the disabled and poor have no real access to affordable health care isn't culling?	niyad	Feb 2012	#11
Us disabled are weakening the breed. We must accept our plight.	WingDinger	Feb 2012	#21
Um...then why are so many red states trying to require pre-abortion sonograms to discourage it?	tanyev	Feb 2012	#12
Those dont confirm abnormalities, just impress the heartbeat and form to the woman.	WingDinger	Feb 2012	#13
OK, got it.	tanyev	Feb 2012	#14
Ugh	Proud Liberal Dem	Feb 2012	#16
Santorum is sickly sensational. He talks in a conspiratorial tone...	Frustratedlady	Feb 2012	#19
santorum and the gop are accessory to multiple rapes.	Nah7anyule	Feb 2012	#20
Anti-choice attitudes are common among the autistic community for that reason.	Odin2005	Feb 2012	#22
It's the death panels all over again	davidpdx	Feb 2012	#25

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