• soviettaters@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    First people push for mass abortions of disabled people (see Iceland), next they try to make living disabled people’s lives horrible. Eugenics is making a comeback and nobody cares.

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      1 year ago

      I’m more sympathetic to letting people choose to abort fetuses with clear genetic or physical problems.The world isn’t made a better place by more people with down syndrome. Very early genetic testing is helpful here.

      However, not letting these people who do exist, and to some extent will probably always exist, live full enriched lives to the extent that they are able is rather horrible.

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      1 year ago

      What does “mass abortions” mean exactly in this context?

      You’re probably talking about Iceland’s “100% abortion rate for people with down syndrome”? Which comes to about 1 or 2 cases per year.

      Exaggerating much?

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I was about to ask about that. since a lot of disabilities can’t be detected before birth

    • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A lot of younger people don’t know who Hitler was or just assume he’s a funny meme these days. It’s not their fault, this stuff is simply not taught in schools and I fear we’re destined to make the same mistakes all over again.