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  1. WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Ryan Case said:
    WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    Ryan Case <[email hidden]> wrote:

    >WillBrink wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>In article <[email hidden]>, Dally <[email hidden]>
    >>wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>How's that?
    >>
    >>
    >>Terrible and estrogen filled. If I was told by the doc tests showed the
    >>kid was going to come out with DS, I would go in there myself with a
    >>spoon and terminate it.
    >>
    >
    >
    >As the parent of a special needs child I can say without doubt that you
    >just destroyed any respect I had for you.
    >

    Your personal experience is irrelevant. It's great you love your special
    needs kid, but given the choice, I would want the option to terminate,
    and if they were not already in this world, I would want to save them
    and I the heartbreak of such afflictions.

    Hmmm. I am sure that if I had the time and desire I could come up with a
    pretty convincing argument comparing the pains and benefits of raising
    such a child with the pains and benefits of working out/lifting weights.

    And I would have no problems countering such an odd comparison. I have
    much respect for people who give all they have to raising a DS kid.

    I want to make sure that I don't misrepresent myself here. My son is not
    DS. He is Hemipalegic (sp).

    Quoted message said:

    Bottom line however is it's not what you or anyone else wished for or
    hoped for, but what you got.

    Careful there. My wife and I skipped the tests that could have told us
    whether or not our son had certain hereditary problems as it didn't
    matter to us. When we chose to have a child we chose to love whoever and
    whatever we were given. (I could include some faith based reasoning, but
    I don't want to stir up the aetheist jews.)

    I will tell you that I have never felt like my son was "what I got".
    That is quite obviously an outside perspective of someone who looks at
    children with physical/mental differences like a parting gift for the
    parents that didn't win.

    Do you have *any* children?

    Oh, and having the tests wouldn't have done any good. Just from an
    informational standpoint. It was an compatability issue between my 5'6"
    wife and my 10.5lb (at birth) son. He ended up constricting the
    umbylical (sp) cord in the last week causing a hypoxic episode, causing
    a stroke, causing kidney failure, causing liver failure, causing
    respitory failure, causing adrenal gland failure.....Stupid doctor kept
    saying, "oh, he'll be an average 7~8lb baby." If anyone should be
    terminated it should be him for being lax.

    Quoted message said:

    People should have the choice to decide if
    that's what they want vs having it forced on them by right to life born
    again Hitlers that have taken over large parts of the government at this
    time.

    I don't disagree that people should have a choice. People should be free
    to make the wrong choices. I just see what you forsee as your choice in
    that situation as the wrong one. And a very selfish one at that. And yes
    I agree that there is a movement in our country to let a group of libral
    "do gooders" try to make everyone's decisions for them. And yes I think
    that it is wrong.

    And for the same reasons that people should be allowed to make the wrong
    choices, I should be allowed to try and make them see why I think that
    it is the wrong choice.

    I would like the opportunity, if you will let me, to retract my former
    comment concerning respect for you. It was a knee jerk reaction, based
    on emotions from my own life experiences. I have been lurking here on
    and off for the better part of five years and have found you to be one
    of the better regulars. In fact, I get your newsletter etc.

    I would like to strongly encourage you to find someone that you know who
    has a special needs child and spend some time with them. In fact spend a
    lot of time with them. Then reconsider your stance on this. If you were
    in my neck of the woods I would gladly have you out to meet my son. (He
    turns two on Sunday).

    It makes me sick to think that such a loving, joyful, happy little boy
    could have not had the chance to touch the people that he has, becuase a
    parent could have terminated him due to *complications*.

    http://jamesrobert.us/images/robbie/aug_04_13.jpg

    Ryan Case

  2. Ryan Case said:

    Do you have *any* children?

    God forbid. Luckily his testicles are shriveled up like raisains from
    the roids, so the world is safe.

    TBR

    "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
    more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
    the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
    White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
    H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
    "Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
    but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."
    S**t list: Charlie Bendahoe, TBR imposter

  3. Ryan Case said:

    Do you have *any* children?

    God forbid. Luckily his testicles are shriveled up like raisains from
    the roids, so the world is safe.

    TBR

    "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
    more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
    the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
    White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
    H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
    "Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
    but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."
    S**t list: Charlie Bendahoe, TBR imposter

  4. In article <[email hidden]>,

    The Bill Rodgers said:
    WillBrink said:

    It appears not only are you retarded, your memory for the stupid [censored]
    you spout is poor:

    "Wrong. Massachusetts for one, has no self defense statue." stated by
    you. You were then corrected and ran off back down your hole where you
    now stay.

    Keep up the good work.

    No, you fell right into my trap. You claimed I commented on a gun law,
    the self defense statute has nothing to do with guns.

    And your comments on said self defense laws in MA were wrong, and you
    tucked your tail and ran like a [censored] when your ignorance was corrected.

    Quoted message said:

    You are a moron.

    You think that back peddle you are doing will save you here? Bwaha ha ha
    ha. That's funny.

    --
    Will Brink @ http://www.brinkzone.com/

  5. In article <[email hidden]>,

    The Bill Rodgers said:
    WillBrink said:

    It appears not only are you retarded, your memory for the stupid [censored]
    you spout is poor:

    "Wrong. Massachusetts for one, has no self defense statue." stated by
    you. You were then corrected and ran off back down your hole where you
    now stay.

    Keep up the good work.

    No, you fell right into my trap. You claimed I commented on a gun law,
    the self defense statute has nothing to do with guns.

    And your comments on said self defense laws in MA were wrong, and you
    tucked your tail and ran like a [censored] when your ignorance was corrected.

    Quoted message said:

    You are a moron.

    You think that back peddle you are doing will save you here? Bwaha ha ha
    ha. That's funny.

    --
    Will Brink @ http://www.brinkzone.com/

  6. WillBrink said:

    And your comments on said self defense laws in MA were wrong, and you
    tucked your tail and ran like a [censored] when your ignorance was corrected.

    No it is not wrong. There are currently thousands of people in jail on
    charges because they chose to defend themselves. There is no self
    defense law in mass.
    And although you are the definitive authority on [censored], there's a
    reason I don't respond when I'm away from the PC for awhile, and when
    I check in there's 95 posts, mostly telling Dally how fat and ugly she
    is, I chose not to read them. Ignoring the biggest bunch of [censored] I
    ever saw gathered in one NG, is not running.

    TBR

    "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
    more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
    the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
    White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
    H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
    "Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
    but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."
    S**t list: Charlie Bendahoe, TBR imposter

  7. WillBrink said:

    And your comments on said self defense laws in MA were wrong, and you
    tucked your tail and ran like a [censored] when your ignorance was corrected.

    No it is not wrong. There are currently thousands of people in jail on
    charges because they chose to defend themselves. There is no self
    defense law in mass.
    And although you are the definitive authority on [censored], there's a
    reason I don't respond when I'm away from the PC for awhile, and when
    I check in there's 95 posts, mostly telling Dally how fat and ugly she
    is, I chose not to read them. Ignoring the biggest bunch of [censored] I
    ever saw gathered in one NG, is not running.

    TBR

    "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
    more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
    the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
    White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
    H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
    "Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
    but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."
    S**t list: Charlie Bendahoe, TBR imposter

  8. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Ryan Case said:
    WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Ryan Case said:

    WillBrink wrote:

    >In article <[email hidden]>,
    > Ryan Case <[email hidden]> wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>WillBrink wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>In article <[email hidden]>, Dally <[email hidden]>
    >>>wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>How's that?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>Terrible and estrogen filled. If I was told by the doc tests showed the
    >>>kid was going to come out with DS, I would go in there myself with a
    >>>spoon and terminate it.
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>As the parent of a special needs child I can say without doubt that you
    >>just destroyed any respect I had for you.
    >>
    >
    >
    >Your personal experience is irrelevant. It's great you love your special
    >needs kid, but given the choice, I would want the option to terminate,
    >and if they were not already in this world, I would want to save them
    >and I the heartbreak of such afflictions.
    >

    Hmmm. I am sure that if I had the time and desire I could come up with a
    pretty convincing argument comparing the pains and benefits of raising
    such a child with the pains and benefits of working out/lifting weights.

    And I would have no problems countering such an odd comparison. I have
    much respect for people who give all they have to raising a DS kid.

    I want to make sure that I don't misrepresent myself here. My son is not
    DS. He is Hemipalegic (sp).

    Quoted message said:

    Bottom line however is it's not what you or anyone else wished for or
    hoped for, but what you got.

    Careful there. My wife and I skipped the tests that could have told us
    whether or not our son had certain hereditary problems as it didn't
    matter to us. When we chose to have a child we chose to love whoever and
    whatever we were given. (I could include some faith based reasoning, but
    I don't want to stir up the aetheist jews.)

    Ah, so if you go to have another kid, and the doc says "we now have a
    drug that is 100% safe and effective for making sure that problem is
    corrected with this next child" your response would be "no thanx doc, we
    want another kid who is Hemipalegic." Sorry, I don't buy it nor would
    any parent turn that away. You can justify all you want how grateful you
    are to have a special needs kid. It wont have any effects on me as I
    know the truth. No one wishes for a handicapped, SD, retarded, etc kid
    and given the actual choice, would choose not to have it if they could
    cure it. The rest is academic as to what I would choose to have and
    what you have chosen to accept.

    --
    Will Brink @ http://www.brinkzone.com/

  9. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Ryan Case said:
    WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Ryan Case said:

    WillBrink wrote:

    >In article <[email hidden]>,
    > Ryan Case <[email hidden]> wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>WillBrink wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>In article <[email hidden]>, Dally <[email hidden]>
    >>>wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>How's that?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>Terrible and estrogen filled. If I was told by the doc tests showed the
    >>>kid was going to come out with DS, I would go in there myself with a
    >>>spoon and terminate it.
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>As the parent of a special needs child I can say without doubt that you
    >>just destroyed any respect I had for you.
    >>
    >
    >
    >Your personal experience is irrelevant. It's great you love your special
    >needs kid, but given the choice, I would want the option to terminate,
    >and if they were not already in this world, I would want to save them
    >and I the heartbreak of such afflictions.
    >

    Hmmm. I am sure that if I had the time and desire I could come up with a
    pretty convincing argument comparing the pains and benefits of raising
    such a child with the pains and benefits of working out/lifting weights.

    And I would have no problems countering such an odd comparison. I have
    much respect for people who give all they have to raising a DS kid.

    I want to make sure that I don't misrepresent myself here. My son is not
    DS. He is Hemipalegic (sp).

    Quoted message said:

    Bottom line however is it's not what you or anyone else wished for or
    hoped for, but what you got.

    Careful there. My wife and I skipped the tests that could have told us
    whether or not our son had certain hereditary problems as it didn't
    matter to us. When we chose to have a child we chose to love whoever and
    whatever we were given. (I could include some faith based reasoning, but
    I don't want to stir up the aetheist jews.)

    Ah, so if you go to have another kid, and the doc says "we now have a
    drug that is 100% safe and effective for making sure that problem is
    corrected with this next child" your response would be "no thanx doc, we
    want another kid who is Hemipalegic." Sorry, I don't buy it nor would
    any parent turn that away. You can justify all you want how grateful you
    are to have a special needs kid. It wont have any effects on me as I
    know the truth. No one wishes for a handicapped, SD, retarded, etc kid
    and given the actual choice, would choose not to have it if they could
    cure it. The rest is academic as to what I would choose to have and
    what you have chosen to accept.

    --
    Will Brink @ http://www.brinkzone.com/

  10. WillBrink said:

    Ah, so if you go to have another kid, and the doc says "we now have a
    drug that is 100% safe and effective for making sure that problem is
    corrected with this next child" your response would be "no thanx doc, we
    want another kid who is Hemipalegic." Sorry, I don't buy it nor would
    any parent turn that away.

    Willbur, you aren't paying attention. Now you're just grasping at
    straws, and making stuff up.

    TBR

    "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
    more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
    the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
    White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
    H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
    "Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
    but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."
    S**t list: Charlie Bendahoe, TBR imposter

  11. "David Cohen" <[email hidden]> wrote > "WillBrink"
    <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:
    Dally said:

    WillBrink wrote:
    > Dally <[email hidden]> wrote:
    >>How's that?

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    > Terrible and estrogen filled.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Succinct and descriptive (of the author as well as the text.)

    Quoted message said:

    Succinct and descriptive = estrogen filled dribble to the reader.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    > If I was told by the doc tests showed the
    > kid was going to come out with DS, I would go in there myself with a
    > spoon and terminate it.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Yeah, probably, but wouldn't you want to be in there with a spoon
    terminating ANY pregnancy?

    Quoted message said:

    Hmmm, you have a point there....

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    It's okay to HOPE for a stellar example of our genes being expressed,
    but if you want kids, really really want kids, you take what you get.

    Quoted message said:

    Thus why I don't have kids. Might get stuck with a girl....

    That's why obstetricians smack babies on the butt when they're born.

    Knocks the [censored] off the stupid ones.


    An original MFW medical opinion.

  12. Ryan Case said:

    It makes me sick to think that such a loving, joyful, happy little boy
    could have not had the chance to touch the people that he has, becuase a
    parent could have terminated him due to *complications*.

    http://jamesrobert.us/images/robbie/aug_04_13.jpg

    Lovely. And not a drop of estrogen to be found.

    Dally

  13. Dally said:

    Lovely. And not a drop of estrogen to be found.

    Then why is he sitting on that guys face? And even more disturbing,
    why is the guy enjoying it?

    TBR

    "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
    more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
    the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
    White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
    H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
    "Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
    but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."
    S**t list: Charlie Bendahoe, TBR imposter

  14. WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Ryan Case said:
    WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    Ryan Case <[email hidden]> wrote:

    >WillBrink wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>In article <[email hidden]>,
    >>Ryan Case <[email hidden]> wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>WillBrink wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>In article <[email hidden]>, Dally <[email hidden]>
    >>>>wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>>How's that?
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>Terrible and estrogen filled. If I was told by the doc tests showed the
    >>>>kid was going to come out with DS, I would go in there myself with a
    >>>>spoon and terminate it.
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>As the parent of a special needs child I can say without doubt that you
    >>>just destroyed any respect I had for you.
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>Your personal experience is irrelevant. It's great you love your special
    >>needs kid, but given the choice, I would want the option to terminate,
    >>and if they were not already in this world, I would want to save them
    >>and I the heartbreak of such afflictions.
    >>
    >
    >Hmmm. I am sure that if I had the time and desire I could come up with a
    >pretty convincing argument comparing the pains and benefits of raising
    >such a child with the pains and benefits of working out/lifting weights.

    And I would have no problems countering such an odd comparison. I have
    much respect for people who give all they have to raising a DS kid.

    I want to make sure that I don't misrepresent myself here. My son is not
    DS. He is Hemipalegic (sp).

    Quoted message said:

    Bottom line however is it's not what you or anyone else wished for or
    hoped for, but what you got.

    Careful there. My wife and I skipped the tests that could have told us
    whether or not our son had certain hereditary problems as it didn't
    matter to us. When we chose to have a child we chose to love whoever and
    whatever we were given. (I could include some faith based reasoning, but
    I don't want to stir up the aetheist jews.)

    Ah, so if you go to have another kid, and the doc says "we now have a
    drug that is 100% safe and effective for making sure that problem is
    corrected with this next child" your response would be "no thanx doc, we
    want another kid who is Hemipalegic."

    No. And I didn't mean to imply this. (Sorry if it seemed that I was)

    What I am simply stating is that a child not being "medically perfect"
    is not reason to terminate it in my eyes. But I also don't see aborting
    an imperfect pregnancy as a solution or a means of "making sure that
    problem is corrected". And it seams to me that you are in a round about
    way equating the two.

    Quite simply, if in the first tri-mester I was told that my next child
    was going to hemi (yes I have heard all the dodge jokes.) I wouldn't
    even have to think about whether or not I was going to keep him.

    Of course I would rather my son didn't have to go through these
    difficulties. I would be crazy to wish otherwise. But that doesn't mean
    that I feel he would have been better off to not exist. Which is what it
    seemed you were saying.

    Quoted message said:

    Sorry, I don't buy it nor would
    any parent turn that away. You can justify all you want how grateful you
    are to have a special needs kid.

    Once again, there is a major difference between turning away a cure, and
    turning away from a pregnancy because of complications. You seem to be
    equating the again.

    I am greatful to have a child, special needs or not. The truth of the
    matter is that when you are in this kind of situation it is just life.
    Not normal life, or special needs life or any of that other labeling
    [censored]. It is life, dealing with the hand you are dealt, just like my bum
    knee, skin cancer and bad skin, but on a different level.

    Quoted message said:

    It wont have any effects on me as I
    know the truth.
    No one wishes for a handicapped, SD, retarded, etc kid
    and given the actual choice, would choose not to have it if they could
    cure it.

    I am not stating the opposite to that (although I do have some friends
    that would like to adopt a DS child). What I was saying is that there
    are many folks out there who don't see killing a pregnancy becuase it is
    imperfect as an option. I feel I must bring us back to what caused me to
    have the emotional knee jerk reaction in your original post. You stated
    that you would abort a "imperfect" pregnancy. Now you are talking about
    curing it. Two different things. Plain and simple. Curing an ilness/
    malidy usually does not require the death of the host/afflicted. What
    you are talking about is irradication.

    One must be careful. This almost smacks of halocost. Curing the world of
    DS babies by aborting them. (because you don't know me very well, I feel
    it is in the best interest of this discussion to let you know that that
    was a good natured jab.)

    Quoted message said:

    The rest is academic as to what I would choose to have and
    what you have chosen to accept.

    Agreed. And a part of me feels sorry for you for your, albeit
    hypothetical, decision in the matter. I hope that something happens in
    your life to cause you to change your mind. But I am not going to make
    it my job to try and do so.

    Ryan

    Quoted message said:
  15. WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Ryan Case said:
    WillBrink said:

    In article <[email hidden]>,
    Ryan Case <[email hidden]> wrote:

    >WillBrink wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>In article <[email hidden]>,
    >>Ryan Case <[email hidden]> wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>WillBrink wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>In article <[email hidden]>, Dally <[email hidden]>
    >>>>wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>>How's that?
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>Terrible and estrogen filled. If I was told by the doc tests showed the
    >>>>kid was going to come out with DS, I would go in there myself with a
    >>>>spoon and terminate it.
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>As the parent of a special needs child I can say without doubt that you
    >>>just destroyed any respect I had for you.
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>Your personal experience is irrelevant. It's great you love your special
    >>needs kid, but given the choice, I would want the option to terminate,
    >>and if they were not already in this world, I would want to save them
    >>and I the heartbreak of such afflictions.
    >>
    >
    >Hmmm. I am sure that if I had the time and desire I could come up with a
    >pretty convincing argument comparing the pains and benefits of raising
    >such a child with the pains and benefits of working out/lifting weights.

    And I would have no problems countering such an odd comparison. I have
    much respect for people who give all they have to raising a DS kid.

    I want to make sure that I don't misrepresent myself here. My son is not
    DS. He is Hemipalegic (sp).

    Quoted message said:

    Bottom line however is it's not what you or anyone else wished for or
    hoped for, but what you got.

    Careful there. My wife and I skipped the tests that could have told us
    whether or not our son had certain hereditary problems as it didn't
    matter to us. When we chose to have a child we chose to love whoever and
    whatever we were given. (I could include some faith based reasoning, but
    I don't want to stir up the aetheist jews.)

    Ah, so if you go to have another kid, and the doc says "we now have a
    drug that is 100% safe and effective for making sure that problem is
    corrected with this next child" your response would be "no thanx doc, we
    want another kid who is Hemipalegic."

    No. And I didn't mean to imply this. (Sorry if it seemed that I was)

    What I am simply stating is that a child not being "medically perfect"
    is not reason to terminate it in my eyes. But I also don't see aborting
    an imperfect pregnancy as a solution or a means of "making sure that
    problem is corrected". And it seams to me that you are in a round about
    way equating the two.

    Quite simply, if in the first tri-mester I was told that my next child
    was going to hemi (yes I have heard all the dodge jokes.) I wouldn't
    even have to think about whether or not I was going to keep him.

    Of course I would rather my son didn't have to go through these
    difficulties. I would be crazy to wish otherwise. But that doesn't mean
    that I feel he would have been better off to not exist. Which is what it
    seemed you were saying.

    Quoted message said:

    Sorry, I don't buy it nor would
    any parent turn that away. You can justify all you want how grateful you
    are to have a special needs kid.

    Once again, there is a major difference between turning away a cure, and
    turning away from a pregnancy because of complications. You seem to be
    equating the again.

    I am greatful to have a child, special needs or not. The truth of the
    matter is that when you are in this kind of situation it is just life.
    Not normal life, or special needs life or any of that other labeling
    [censored]. It is life, dealing with the hand you are dealt, just like my bum
    knee, skin cancer and bad skin, but on a different level.

    Quoted message said:

    It wont have any effects on me as I
    know the truth.
    No one wishes for a handicapped, SD, retarded, etc kid
    and given the actual choice, would choose not to have it if they could
    cure it.

    I am not stating the opposite to that (although I do have some friends
    that would like to adopt a DS child). What I was saying is that there
    are many folks out there who don't see killing a pregnancy becuase it is
    imperfect as an option. I feel I must bring us back to what caused me to
    have the emotional knee jerk reaction in your original post. You stated
    that you would abort a "imperfect" pregnancy. Now you are talking about
    curing it. Two different things. Plain and simple. Curing an ilness/
    malidy usually does not require the death of the host/afflicted. What
    you are talking about is irradication.

    One must be careful. This almost smacks of halocost. Curing the world of
    DS babies by aborting them. (because you don't know me very well, I feel
    it is in the best interest of this discussion to let you know that that
    was a good natured jab.)

    Quoted message said:

    The rest is academic as to what I would choose to have and
    what you have chosen to accept.

    Agreed. And a part of me feels sorry for you for your, albeit
    hypothetical, decision in the matter. I hope that something happens in
    your life to cause you to change your mind. But I am not going to make
    it my job to try and do so.

    Ryan

    Quoted message said:
  16. The Bill Rodgers said:
    Dally said:

    Lovely. And not a drop of estrogen to be found.

    Then why is he sitting on that guys face? And even more disturbing,
    why is the guy enjoying it?

    I was pretty sure that I was going to have to dislike you for your sig
    alone, but you made me laugh.

    Ryan

  17. The Bill Rodgers said:
    Dally said:

    Lovely. And not a drop of estrogen to be found.

    Then why is he sitting on that guys face? And even more disturbing,
    why is the guy enjoying it?

    I was pretty sure that I was going to have to dislike you for your sig
    alone, but you made me laugh.

    Ryan

  18. Ryan Case said:
    The Bill Rodgers said:
    Dally said:

    Lovely. And not a drop of estrogen to be found.

    Then why is he sitting on that guys face? And even more disturbing,
    why is the guy enjoying it?

    I was pretty sure that I was going to have to dislike you for your sig
    alone, but you made me laugh.

    Ryan

    He made me think, "ewwww". The guy is a bit creepy if you ask me.

    Dally

  19. Ryan Case said:
    The Bill Rodgers said:
    Dally said:

    Lovely. And not a drop of estrogen to be found.

    Then why is he sitting on that guys face? And even more disturbing,
    why is the guy enjoying it?

    I was pretty sure that I was going to have to dislike you for your sig
    alone, but you made me laugh.

    Ryan

    He made me think, "ewwww". The guy is a bit creepy if you ask me.

    Dally

  20. Ryan Case said:

    Agreed. And a part of me feels sorry for you for your, albeit
    hypothetical, decision in the matter. I hope that something happens in
    your life to cause you to change your mind. But I am not going to make
    it my job to try and do so.

    Oops, sorry, I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the MFW charter that you
    absolutely MUST spend 800 posts on attempting to change his mind.

    HTH.

    Dally

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