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Iceland is about to eradicate Down syndrome. How? Using prenatal testing and abortion.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450509/down-syndrome-iceland-cbs-news-disturbing-report

This is what I call a really sick,vile society.
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Pherick41-45, M
Yea sick! How dare they want to have healthy children, vile fucks! 馃檮
CierzoM
@Pherick Only healthy children deserve to live. Ubermenschen must die
Pherick41-45, M
@Cierzo I have no idea what Ubermenschen have to do with this, but its not about deserving to live. Its about a child that will be very deformed. I suppose some parents are willing to take that risk. Some, however, may have 2 or 3 children already and no think they can handle the physical, financial and mental burdens of a child with Downs. Not to mention how it would impact their current children.

People make decisions and those decisions are some of the toughest they have ever had to face, but they do so in hopes of making a better life for them and their future children. Not your place to judge.
CierzoM
@Pherick We are talking about human beings, not electronical devices that can be thrown out when they are faulty. When a couple decides to have a baby,they must be aware that the risk that he is not born healthy is always there.

Not my place to judge? There is something called free speech.
Pherick41-45, M
@Cierzo Not a human being, a mass of cells. Someday that could be born as a human being, but not until then.

Your right to Free Speech doesn't give you the right to judge. I guess you could still do it, just makes you look like an ass when you do.
CierzoM
@Pherick Sorry but I will not shut up when I see something that I consider vile
ravenwind4351-55, F
@Pherick Have you ever seen or even know about Down Sydrome? Is to be deformed to have different facial features from others? Should we eradicate ANYONE whose facial features don't meet with our standards? That is rather outrageous.
Pherick41-45, M
@ravenwind43 I have to ask the same about you. Do you think that Down syndrome is JUST a facial feature abnormality? I hope you are being sarcastic ...
ravenwind4351-55, F
@Pherick You said "deformed" and I was attempting to guess what you meant by that and use the facial features as the example. Being deformed has to do with some twisted representation of the human body. Facial features and cognitive ability isn't the same as a deformity.
Pherick41-45, M
@ravenwind43 Oh I see where I said that. I am sorry, poor choice of words. I meant its about having a child with Down Syndrome. I should have said that, as you said deformed was a very poor choice of words.
ravenwind4351-55, F
@Pherick A very big majority of millennial's walking around right now cannot identify where a state is on a map, nor have any understanding of simple things. They show an appalling lack of social and functional skills. Many of them cannot take care of themselves (18-25) without parental help. Their use of the English language and grammar is embarrassing. Their lives revolve around their phone and attention seeking behavior and when attention fails to deliver they use drama such as cutting and talking about mental health disorders and threatening suicide so someone will look at them. They are obsessed with their phones and often express sociopathic behavior on an almost daily basis.
So I ask, what gives them the right to exist over someone with Down Syndrome? They are not living a life that is likely to amount to much and will be pushed through life because it's the "nice" thing to do. Wouldn't society be bettered by removing these potentially defective babies before they cost the world heartache and money?
You can use the argument well some of them might do good. I daresay some people with Down Syndrome also do well, they are more genuine in their actions towards others. If I have the chance to spend the day with someone with Down Syndrome over one of these attention seeking sociopath millennial's I would choose it in a heartbeat:)