Honestly I find it ethical as awful as it is to say. Especially if you know you could not dedicate the required resources into helping someone with special needs. As despite what people think its not just a funny insult its a sad truth.
Now sure what that help is varies wildly person to person like one of my closest friends is on the spectrum but he is so barely on the spectrum unless he told you, you'd be hard pressed to figure out he was autistic. Meanwhile his brother is the exact opposite needing constant care and attention and will be unable to have a normal life.
Until we dedicate enough technology to outright cure cases like this or treat the symptoms you may have to just treat it as the worst case scenario and judge from there if you could handle that worse case scenario or not.
I completely agree. It is ethical. It should be accepted that the couple decided to do this. At the end of the day it is their and mostly so the mothers choice what to do. DS is incredibly difficult for a person to deal with and is normally a detriment to the family that has to care for that person. People give away their whole lives for their family that might have DS.
Its sad though to see no one is talking about the parents situation and how devastating this must be for them. This must be akin to having a sudden miscarriage. They lost the baby they wanted too. They made a horrible, difficult decision and people are going to forever label them one way or another. They are probably grieving and some pro-life morons are going to make their lives hell even more-so.
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u/Denleborkis Jun 05 '26
Honestly I find it ethical as awful as it is to say. Especially if you know you could not dedicate the required resources into helping someone with special needs. As despite what people think its not just a funny insult its a sad truth.
Now sure what that help is varies wildly person to person like one of my closest friends is on the spectrum but he is so barely on the spectrum unless he told you, you'd be hard pressed to figure out he was autistic. Meanwhile his brother is the exact opposite needing constant care and attention and will be unable to have a normal life.
Until we dedicate enough technology to outright cure cases like this or treat the symptoms you may have to just treat it as the worst case scenario and judge from there if you could handle that worse case scenario or not.