When science hands us a way to pre-natally diagnose Autism, the horror will be unspeakable. And its coming.
Our friend Leticia reminds us to be careful when we donate to disabilities charities. With some charities, the bulk of the funds goes to pre-natal diagnosis. Of course, the reality of the matter is that R&D into pre-natal diagnosis is usually not about a cure. As Leticia puts it, “AKA search and destroy techniques to kill babies with the disability. Not curing our children who already have the disability. “
This is what happened with March of Dimes.
Such was the case with the March of Dimes and abortion of babies with Down syndrome in the 1970’s and the same thing is happening now that Autism may soon be prenatally diagnosed.
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The National Down Syndrome Society and National Down Syndrome Congress both call themselves pro-choice as well. We already have a 90% abortion rate of our children, yet they stand silently by about it.
If or when they can effectively pre-natally diagnose Autism or even just susceptibility to Autism, abortion will be the solution and the carnage will be unspeakable.
BigGovernment.com is on the story of the very highly paid head of Autism speaks being appointed to Obama’s Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee IACC.
Ridiculously high compensation is not the only reason to be concerned with Dawson’s appointment and Autism Speaks. The IACC provides advice to Sebelius regarding Federal activities related to autism spectrum disorder. (ASD). They also exchange information on and coordinate activities among the member agencies and organizations. Dawson’s employment by Autism Speaks ensures that their agenda will be carried out. Instead of funding services for families and individuals, Autism Speaks’ operating budget goes primarily towards research on the cause of autism, much of it devoted to finding particular genes with an eye to developing a prenatal test. As families of children with Down Syndrome are aware, the existence of prenatal testing for autism means a vast increase in the eugenic abortion of children with autism before they are born.
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Geraldine Dawson is part of a movement determined to eradicate people with autism from our society. We need more respect and understanding when it comes to the autism community. Sebelius’ choice to appoint Dawson to the IACC does not represent the hope and change that many in the autism community were expecting.
Dark days are ahead. Very dark days.
May 14, 2010 at 5:11 am
How easy it is for such an inclusive, multi-cultural, tolerant, self-laudatory people filled with beaming pride in their amazing technology to turn into the worst of repulsive Nazi orcs.
May 14, 2010 at 6:01 am
Amazing how many of the things that are SUPPOSED to be for good causes end up going evil, no? (For example, the Komen foundation supports abortion and fetal stemcell research. Makes me sick to my stomach to think of the money I spent after my mom was diagnosed- which I THOUGHT would help other folks coping with breast cancer– going to to murder babies.)
I will say it again, since I've found many will not believe it:
My mother has breast cancer, and will not take a cure that involves dead babies.
I am more likely than average to have breast cancer. I will not take a cure that involves dead babies.
When I find out a "good works" group involves killing babies, I will speak out against them.
May 14, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I've always been leery of Autism Speaks because they've been such an advocate of finding the cure and the cause. I want them to focus on helping families who struggle every single day to provide services for their autistic child.
It's a shame that this organization is the one in the limelight.
My son has autism. I wouldn't change a thing.
May 14, 2010 at 2:39 pm
OK so get this:
Now there is a study that links Autism to vaccines made from aborted babies. (There is no link between Autism and other vaccines though.) (See excerpt and link to article below)
So, first they kill babies and make vaccines from their corpses. Then they give the vaccines to babies and those babies get Autism.
Now they want to kill unborn children that show signs of Autism.
So they kill some babies, give Autism to other babies, and kill more babies that have Autism. What will be the next step in this cycle? Euthanize Autistic children as well? Hey that way everyone dies. Just sickening.
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LifeNews.com April 21st
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6272.html
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Two pro-life advocates say a new study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency shows a correlation between the use of cells from babies in abortions in vaccines and an increase in autism rates. They say the study provides another problem from pro-life advocates who are already concerned about the abortion-vaccine tie.
The study, published in February in the publication Environmental Science & Technology, confirms 1988 as a “change point” in the rise of Autism Disorder rate.
"Although the debate about the nature of increasing autism continues, the potential for this increase to be real and involve exogenous environmental stressors exists," the study says.
May 14, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Dark days have been here for 37 years. We have become an exterminationist culture.
What part of 50,000,000 don't we understand? All of it.
May 14, 2010 at 3:13 pm
As the mother of a child with Down Synrdome, the whisper campaign against the unborn who are known to be "imperfect" as indicated by the genetic tests is subtle and quiet at first. "You have other children." if you do. "You can HAVE other children." "If You Have OTHER children, They won't necessarily have Down Syndrome so you could have Other children." and taking you into a nice room with pastel wall covers and soft lighting and saying, "Your tests indicate Trisomy 21. You have a decision to make."
I'm always fearful when scientists say, "Well, it won't come to that." Which means, we haven't the moral strength or desire to stand against this but we'll pacify you by saying, "Don't you worry dear."
And when we get this test, it will be proscribed as part of good prenatal health.
When we have tests to reveal Autism and Down Syndrome and MS and Parkinson's and Cystic Fibrosis and eventually perhaps ADD and Schitzophrenia and perhaps predilictions towards alcholism or bi-polar, these too will be reasons to abort "for the greater good."
The euphamisims will emphasize our guilt in failing to abort. "You don't want your baby to suffer do you? That would be Cruel."
And so we will be a designer world by default, eliminating everyone not predetermined to be perfect. We will tolerate deviation eventually less and less as we quest to be perfect and anticipate and erradicate all flaws by killing all who can be determined prebirth to have flaws.
Once we get to that point, what will stop us from eliminating those who come out not as advertised?
May 14, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Couldn't have said it better, SherryTex.
May 14, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Sick and disturbing–but not surprising. I have a son with Aspergers, and he's a gift. I have an aunt whose first child has Down Syndrome and whose second child has Autism. When will these schmucks wake up to the reality that people with Down Syndrome bring a lot more good to this world than they're doing with their eugenic slaughter of supposedly "less perfect" children–as though people born without Down Syndrome or Autism are somehow more valuable or worthy of our love.
Let's face it. For these folks, it all comes down to how useful these people are to them–and how much money it might cost the government to provide the services it's in a desperate rush to take over. Fewer Down Syndrome and Autistic kids means, I guess, less money needed for Special Ed in schools, though we're not costing them anything, since we pulled our Aspie son out of the public school where he was bored, frustrated and angry most of the time. Now we homeschool him, along with his younger sisters. I don't want the government teaching my kids, any more than I want them deciding which of my kids is more worth saving. They've proven themselves wholly incapable and untrustworthy on both counts.
May 14, 2010 at 4:08 pm
"Amazing how many of the things that are SUPPOSED to be for good causes end up going evil, no?"
sigh, yes. My company is joining in with the Bike MS. I LOVE biking and would love to bike to help people with MS get the help they need, however, the MS society makes no bones whatsoever about donating money to ESCR. Ugh…
I told them I couldn't bike for that reason, and that I would donate to another cause that didn't kill humans to save them. However I haven't found another group and feel stuck, so I'm going to donate to the local church instead.
May 14, 2010 at 4:24 pm
I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, but
http://www.all.org/charities/
has a list of charities with their positions on ESCR.
Also this:
http://www.dcrtl.org/charities/index.html
May 14, 2010 at 4:26 pm
The Michael Fund, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is an organization dedicated to intertwining scientific research for the prevention of genetic defects and the pro-life philosophy.
No idea how legit they are, but it's nice to see the idea around.
May 14, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for the links, it's sad to see how many "charities" are participating in such evils.
May 14, 2010 at 7:14 pm
My oldest has Asperger's. I have no problem with research to attempt to "cure" it in some (ethical!!!) fashion, or more likely, to develop better therapy techniques to allow him to function more independently in larger society.
He can be quite maddening at times. Teenagers are hard enough even without being on the spectrum.
But for him to have been quietly "eliminated" before birth?? What a horrifying thought… 🙁
May 14, 2010 at 9:05 pm
And ObamaCare is the ground floor which will allow these bureaucrats of death to flourish. It will become first a suggestion and then it will become mandatory to abort the "unfit". And with the hospitals, doctors, and nurses becoming nothing more than state employees, there will be plenty of room for mischief. Just imagine the kind of power they will have over us. Already this week there a proposed bill which will force states to report to HHS our children's obesity index. This of course will be done by local doctors and nurses during routine check ups. The proposed law will also make our medical professionals "suggest" ways to overcome obesity, and will send progress reports to HHS. And you can bet Child Protectice Services will get in on the action.
One can easily imagine in a decade or less a situation where HHS gets informed of a woman carrying an autisitic or down's child. It doesn't a genius to imagine some bureaucrat marking this child for termination, and mailing an apppointment letter to the parents kindly but firmly directing them to the nearest abortion clinic. And like China, these abortions will not be mere suggestions.
May 14, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Yikes. Jerome, I hope it doesn't come to that in this country, but we do seem to be headed in that direction. I wonder if it'll even be optional anymore to undergo certain prenatal screening tests (as it is now) to detect Down Syndrome, Trisomy 18 or other potential health problems (Spina Bifida, Cystic Fibrosis, etc).
Interesting that while a so-called "right to privacy" ruling led to Roe v. Wade, the government doesn't have any qualms about peering into a woman's womb to see if the child she carries is worth saving–according to his potential usefulness to the state and how much it'll cost the "village" to care for him from cradle to grave. They'll use whatever lies they have at their disposal to justify overruling a mother's decision NOT to abort her baby–if that baby is deemed, by the state, undesirable.
And, yet, where else in the world could we go? What can we do but pray and keep alert and be ready–and willing–to fight?
And Margaret, my son has frequent Aspie-level meltdowns and still has to work on many social difficulties, and we're working on those things with him. I can't help but wonder what adolescence will add to the mix. 😉 Somedays are so rough, I've been known to call it, under my breath, "Pain in the A$$pergers," though I love my son, and, more times than not, he surprises me in good ways, too. I wouldn't change him, though I do hope, for his sake, that we can help him with some of the social difficulties. I don't mind if he's an introvert. I'm one myself. It's the sudden, passionate, jumping to conclusions about what someone meant by what he said (sometimes involving complete strangers who said something harmless) or did that can be difficult to defuse–as with many other typical Aspie situations. They make me laugh after I've got some distance, but when we're in the middle of it, I want to cry sometimes.
He's a good kid–very bright and imaginative and usually very eager to please and to help out. He LOVES being homeschooled, he asks great questions, and he loves playing with his sisters–sometimes. He's a sweetheart, but he can also be very, very control-freaky. Maybe it's just the German blood, but that plus the Aspie traits wears me a little thin somedays.
I'm not all that impressed by the public school's bag of tricks for how to deal with kids on the Autism Spectrum. I won't go into all their ideas, but what has helped us more than the school's Special Ed services were the times when we could talk to other parents of kids with Aspergers and Autism. Just knowing that they were going through a lot of the same stuff, and getting some ideas from them–as well as sharing what we'd learned–has helped a lot.
Anyway, enough writing for now. One of my kids needs me.
May 15, 2010 at 1:07 am
You know, when I read about this search and destroy in the womb method of medicine, it makes me cringe. Not only is it obviously wrong, but good LORD! Look it. What this means, then, is that if, God forbid, one of our children is in an accident and is suddenly home-bound or retarded because of the accident, we can legally kill them. I mean, it wouldn't take much to stretch it from the womb to outside the womb.
It all makes me very sad.
May 15, 2010 at 4:32 am
Folks, a way to fight this is for us to get active. That includes joining the local prolife movement, gettting involved in local politics, starting conversations in the breakroom and around the watercooler, etc.
We can be a part of the problem or a part of the solution. Life isn't a popularity contest.
And those aborted babies who were less than some idiot's ideal of "perfect" will stand in judgment against our nation all too soon. May God have mercy on us.
May 15, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Ok. I feel like I'll need to preface this by stating that I am totally pro-life in every aspect of the word and I will not support any organization, individual, etc. that does not respect the dignity of human life–monetarily or otherwise.
HOWEVER, just the chance (unfortunately, in this society, the large chance) that people will use prenatal screening results as a reason to opt for abortion is not a sufficient reason to stop research for said prenatal screening or, as KC said, to stop focusing on "finding the cure and cause" of a disabling condition.
Disabled children are gifts to society, yes. But just because I would not love my autistic child any less than my "normal" child does not mean that I don't wish that he had been able to live a healthy life in which he was able to have all the experiences that his sibling did. And if there was a cure for him (I reiterate–a cure that does not come from stem-cell research) I would gratefully accept it.
If nothing else, knowing that my child will have Autism while he is still in the womb would give me a few months to research Autism and to better prepare myself for being a parent of an autistic child.
There will always be people who try to warp good into evil. But that cannot make us scared to use the gifts God has given us. We can only pray that God, in his infinite love and mercy, will change their hard hearts and show them The Way.
May 15, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I don't have a problem with prenatal screening in and of itself, either. I took the triple screen blood test because I want to be prepared if something is wrong–seriously wrong–and I want our doctor to know about it, too, so he'll know what kind of care our baby will need when he's born. "Baby looks healthy and strong," are beautiful words to hear.
If there is a gene that makes a child autistic–or more susceptible to things that might overtax his system (as speculated by some articles I've read), I wouldn't mind knowing ahead of time, just to be prepared.
I've read more books and articles on Aspergers than I can count to try to figure out what my son's going through and how best to help him. I've no idea if his Aspergers is genetic or caused by a vaccination or by something else. Wading through all the different opinions on the subject hasn't really helped; I'm not a scientist. All I can go on is what my son is going through now, and we're learning as we go.
I would certainly agree, though, that the fact that some misuse prenatal tests is no reason to stop prenatal tests altogether. In and of themselves, they are not an evil. They're a tool. In the wrong hands, they can lead to murder. In the right hands, they can save lives or at least improve them.
May 16, 2010 at 7:36 am
At the risk of seeming self-promoting, I wrote on this subject at my blog a couple months ago about what good comes through "abnormal" people, the very sort whom our society wants to snuff out.
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