Trig Palin is a burden to society and should have been aborted.
Posted on September 17, 2008
So says columnist Nicholas Provenzo, the latest as*hat in a series of as*hats to make attacks on Sarah Palin using her son Trig.
As everyone in the United States knows, Sarah Palin found out early in her pregnancy that her son would have Down’s Syndrome. Rather than aborting Trig, she went through with the pregnancy and now has a five-month-old beautiful baby boy. Even if you are pro-abortion, it’s a good story, right? Every woman has the right to “choose”, as they like to say. Except you’re supposed to choose what liberals tell you to choose.
Provenzo isn’t the first to suggest Trig should have been aborted. But he is the latest, and here’s some excerpts from his disgusting column:
Like many, I am troubled by the implications of Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s decision to knowingly give birth to a child disabled with Down syndrome. Given that Palin’s decision is being celebrated in some quarters, it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome (or by extension, any unborn fetus)—a freedom that anti-abortion advocates seek to deny.
A parent has a moral obligation to provide for his or her children until these children are equipped to provide for themselves. Because a person afflicted with Down syndrome is only capable of being marginally productive (if at all) and requires constant care and supervision, unless a parent enjoys the wealth to provide for the lifetime of assistance that their child will require, they are essentially stranding the cost of their child’s life upon others.
So while anti-abortion commentators such as Michael Franc of the National Review sees Down syndrome’s victims as “ambassadors of God” who “offer us the opportunity to rise to that greatest of all challenges,” for many, that opportunity for challenge is little more than a lifetime of endless burden. In this light, it is completely legitimate for a woman to look at the circumstances of her life and decide that having a child with Down syndrome (or any child for that matter) is not an obligation that she can accept. After all, the choice to have a child is a profoundly selfish choice; that is, a choice that is an expression of the parent’s personal desire to create new life.
And most parents seek to create healthy life; in the case of the unborn fetuses shown to have severe developmental disabilities, one study reports that over 90% of these fetuses are aborted prior to birth. But if you notice, the anti-abortion zealots try to attach a dirty little slur to these abortions, labeling them a form of eugenics.
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[W]e need the mentally retarded to teach us how to better sacrifice our lives and divest ourselves of our self-interested ways more than they need us to care for them. At Noodlefood, Diana Hsieh condemns such a stand as “the worship of retardation.” Given that Palin had complete foreknowledge of her child’s severe disability yet nevertheless chose to have it, it is hard not to see her choice as anything less.
Pretty vile stuff.
So, I guess in this guy’s mind, we should have no Helen Kellers or Franklin D. Roosevelts; no Lord Byrons, Lord Nelsons, or Beethovens. Is that the argument? That unless you’re 100% “healthy” — and by whose standards is “healthy” defined anyway? — you don’t have a right to live? And what gives this guy the right to decide?
And just so you know, this guy is no small potatoes columnist either. He’s written for the Washington Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He’s been on Bill Maher’s show. He isn’t some minor-league columnist who no one knows and has never heard of.
Views such as his are despicable and indefensible. I can only imagine how families with disabled children must feel upon reading this. Not only does this man think that it’s wrong to proceed with a pregnancy that will bear a child with a disability, but he thinks you are selfish and irresponsible. That child’s life is not a blessing to him, but a burden. And not only is his position the correct position, but it’s the moral one!
How crazy can you get?
What’s so ridiculous is that this isn’t his child to be upset over. It was Todd and Sarah Palin’s decision to have Trig, and no one else’s. To them, Trig’s birth was not a burden. So what is he complaining about? I guess you could say that maybe a family that is not as well-off financially as the Palins’ might see a disabled child as a burden — but if they don’t see it that way, then what’s the problem?!
It’s sad that someone can’t see anything but hatred and negativity in the beauty of a child with a disability like Down’s Syndrome. (And FYI, Nicholas, Down’s Syndrome does not automatically mean a lifetime of care and supervision with zero productivity, as*hat.)
Just a little personal story: my brother worked at a summer camp for children with disabilities, right up until weeks before he passed away. I can tell you with complete and total honesty that he loved doing it. He got so much joy out of being with those children. Some of them were mildly disabled and completely capable of taking care of themselves. Others were severely disabled, requiring constant 24/7 supervision. My brother worked his way up to the severely disabled kids, and loved every second of it. He never complained or thought it was too hard. And I can tell you he certainly never saw any of “his” kids’ lives as a waste or a burden. He loved those children, heart and soul. And when I say loved, I mean it. He truly and sincerely loved them. I don’t think he would have been prouder of anything else he had done in his life.
But to this guy, people like my brother, and Sarah Palin, and other parents and friends and caretakers of people with disabilities are idiots who are not only dumb and selfish, but immoral. How sickening.
To close, does all the talk about Trig Palin needing to be aborted simply because he has a disability remind anyone else of Hitler’s talk of a perfect Aryan race?
Oh, but wait. I forgot. These guys are the “tolerant” ones.
Hat Tip: Newsbusters
Cross-posted from Cassy’s blog.
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There does not even need to be a “disability” or a “deformity” unless someone else labels it as such. My husband is Deaf, hereditary for many generations in his family. Knowingly and willingly I chose to have children with him, understanding that there was a 50% chance that my child(ren) would be deaf as well. We have a daughter and a son, both born with sensorineural hearing loss. “I’m so sorry,” people say. “Can they fix that?” people ask.
Why is it “broken” and needing to be “fixed”? We communicate very effectively through ASL. We don’t NEED to be fixed, and we certainly don’t need pity. It’s people WITHOUT the “disability” who label it as such, not the ones who “suffer” from it, and then go on to ensure that it REMAINS a disability.
So I guess by this dude’s twisted logic, my children should have never been born? Perhaps I should be locked away for choosing to “breed” with someone knowing that my children will likely be “disabled” as well?
This makes me SICK.
The bigotry against people with developmental disabilities is appalling.
Bigoted people act as if having a developmental disability means you have nothing to offer the world. They’re wrong.
Some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met have lived the bulk of their lives in a total institution, a place where I had the privilege of working. Society lost more by putting them there than they themselves lost by being there.
But you can’t get a bigot to see that.
Our enlightened liberals and progressives have become the century’s prototype of dictatorial arrogance, ignorance, bias, and hatefulness.
Today’s liberals and progressives believe they are superior to and smarter than we who think differently and therefore are entitled to rule over we lesser orders who believe differently and fail to recognize the lefts’ erudition, genius and wisdom and therefore should be eliminated, be we “normal or disabled.
Today’s left, more than a little, bring to mind those who delivered the world the death camps, gulags, and killing fields of the twentieth resemble. Should our present day left ever get their finger on the power button in our society get ready for a replay of Auschwitz, Magadan, and Kolyma and it will be we conservatives who the left have been demonizing as hateful, racist, and evil for the last century that will be exterminated. The American amoral, moral relativism infected left, has become so deranged that they are capable of horrors that will make those of the SS, Gestapo, and NKVD appear generous and kind-hearted.
More than a few of the stalinism infected “progressives” with whom I have crossed ideological swords finished an exchange by cursing me and telling me that people who thought like me should be killed.
“Trig Palin is a burden to society and should have been aborted.
So says columnist Nicholas Provenzo,”
Oh, there certainly is a burden to society lurking about, but it ain’t the cute little baby – it’s the disgusting columnist.
Provenzo writes “Because a person afflicted with Down syndrome is only capable of being marginally productive (if at all) and requires constant care and supervision, unless a parent enjoys the wealth to provide for the lifetime of assistance that their child will require, they are essentially stranding the cost of their child’s life upon others.”
Somebody introduce this ignorant man to Karen Gaffney please (www.karengaffneyfoundation.com), I’d like her to tell him about her life. I’ve had the priviledge of meeting Karen on several occasions, have nothing but admiration for her and all she has achieved in life and is striving for for people with disabilities.
I would call her a friend – now wouldn’t that choke him, thinking of someone with DS in that way.
That’s just my point, though. Lugnuts like this are the ones forcing people like my husband and my children – and so many others – into the margins, labeling them as disabled and then forcing them to BE disabled, turning a blind eye while things like access to jobs that would allow them to be productive are denied to them, forcing far too many to have to accept that government check in order to survive. Why? Fear of the unknown, or just plain stupidity? Are people like this guy so ignorant they can’t see that learning to communicate with the Deaf or work around handicaps would open up the workplace for them, instead of labeling them “retards” (which Deaf does NOT equate to “retarded”) and telling them they are a burden on society… and MAYBEJUSTMAYBE bridging the gap between our worlds? Opening up society to everyone so we can function as a whole can only benefit the whole…..
Ah forget it, they probably ARE just too stupid to get it. And what’s amazing, I always thought “liberal” and “Democratic” were supposed to be words to describe the more “accepting” party??? They’re busy fighting for black rights, and women’s rights, and gay rights, even Muslim rights, so I guess they just don’t have time for fighting for “disabled” rights. Easier to stuff someone in a pigeonhole and forget about them until they become useful enough to be used. As soon as they can figure out a way to manipulate the situation to their favor though, you can guarantee they’ll start parading around the “less desirable” element of our society – those with “disabilities.”
Thank God I saw the light, and turned my back on that party years ago. I like my little niche, my pigeonhole I’ve been stuffed in, full of Republican and Independent friends of every stripe who practice far more tolerance than some of these left-wing wing-nuts.
I’ve got much stronger words to say, but I’ll keep them to myself.
First, Nick Provenzo has responded to the many misrepresentations of his views in a followup post at:
http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2008/09/fundamental-right-to-abortion.htm
Second, I’m going to speak up to support Nick Provenzo’s *moral* defense of the 90% of women who have learned that their fetus has DS and who eventually chose to abort.
If a woman takes a serious look at the consequences for her life of having an abortion vs. raising that child, and she decides that an abortion would best foster her happiness in the full context of her life, then that is her legal right. And more importantly, she would also be making the *morally* right choice for herself.
Of course, if a woman chooses to have the DS child, that is her right and I genuinely hope that things work out as well as possible for the child and the family.
But to uphold the 10% women who choose to have the DS child as automatically morally superior to the 90% who choose to abort is wrong.
Those women who have made the difficult decision to abort do not deserve to be tarred with the label “murderer” for choosing their own happiness. And anyone who would attempt to saddle those women with an unearned guilt should be ashamed of themselves.
Nick Proveno isn’t a liberal. You’d know this if you’d done even the most basic research. He’s a constitutionalist and founder of “The Center of the Advancement of Capitalism.”
According to his bio, “Via his work at the center,Provenzo has established and led advocacy programs in defense of victims of the governmental violation of individual rights in areas including antitrust, fundamental tax reform, property rights, environmental legislation, genetic research, and the Elián Gonzalez immigration case.” Not at all liberal. Sounds like a libertarian, really.
You guys really should look things up before you post things.
http://www.capmag.com/author.asp?name=30