The abortion debate that wasn't

This opinion piece by George Neumayr is a real eye opener, and if you are - like me - pro-life, it is a definite must-read!

Unborn children are increasingly being aborted if, through prenatal testing, they are found to have genetic defects, and in many cases, if it is merely suspected that they might have genetic defects.

If this practice had been available in the late 1940's to the 1950's, my sister-in-law who has MS, along with her sister who might also develope this disease, might have been aborted, so as to not be a "burden" to their parents in later life. If that had happened, my brother would have been deprived of his soul-mate, and his children, and I would have been deprived of my sister-in-law - a very bright, vivacious person - and my nephew and niece, and their children. There also exists the possibility that my brother, sister, and I would all have never been born, as we all carry some genetic defects that affect our health.

Eugenics is what this is called, which is the overt manipulation of the population to achieve "desirable" traits, first practiced in large part by the Nazi regime, who attempted to eliminate "undesirables" from their population. Is that where we as a society are headed? Do we really want to "play God", eliminating "undesirables" - people who are afflicted with such things as MS, spina bifida, palsy in all it's forms? How about blindness, or deafness? Why don't we just eliminate people who will need to wear glasses while we're at it. What kind of "message" are we sending to those with disabilities - are they really "undesirable", and have no place in society? What about Stephen Hawking, regarded as probably the most astute physicist ever - surpassing even Albert Einstein? Where would our current - and future - understanding of physics be without Hawking?

Why don't we hear more about this? Because it's a "dirty little secret" that the pro-abortionists - including "Madame Hillary" - don't want the rest of us to know about, that's why.

This practice needs more exposure, so that it can be stopped!