Why isn't it legal for cases like this? With the exception of a few RARE cases... there is no quality of life there. Just pain. For the child and the mother/family.
BUT NO. "It's a human! It's sacred!" How about... it's in pain and it's kinder to put them down!
Oh, but the fact that a FEW have managed to survive is "enough" to prove there's a chance and so yeah. I agree though. Human euthanasia should be legal with very strict circumstances. Say oh ... I believe it's Norway or Denmark that allows it?
The ones that don't have a chance die pretty quickly anyway. The ones that do -- well, I'm pretty sure Ryan Gonzalez and his cohorts would be pretty offended at the suggestion that they should have been "put down."
I mean, I agree in principle that there needs to be some kind of well-regulated legal human euthanasia protocol, but yeesh. A lot of disabled-rights advocates are (rightfully, I think) suspicious of human euthanasia, you know, and it's because they're concerned about the possibility of abled caretakers and legal guardians making blanket judgments about severely disabled folks' "poor quality of life" and having them euthanized - because they're financial burdens, or because they can't wrap their heads around the idea that someone could possibly live a decent life "like that", or whatever.
I'm not talking about simple disabilities, I'm talking about when a child is born into a world consisting of nothing but pain, such as Harly children. THAT is poor quality of life.
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Human euthanasia. D:
Why isn't it legal for cases like this? With the exception of a few RARE cases... there is no quality of life there. Just pain. For the child and the mother/family.
BUT NO. "It's a human! It's sacred!" How about... it's in pain and it's kinder to put them down!
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I mean, I agree in principle that there needs to be some kind of well-regulated legal human euthanasia protocol, but yeesh. A lot of disabled-rights advocates are (rightfully, I think) suspicious of human euthanasia, you know, and it's because they're concerned about the possibility of abled caretakers and legal guardians making blanket judgments about severely disabled folks' "poor quality of life" and having them euthanized - because they're financial burdens, or because they can't wrap their heads around the idea that someone could possibly live a decent life "like that", or whatever.
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http://asylumeclectica.com/asylum/malady/archives/harlequin.htm
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