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AgitatedStatesOfAmazement wrote

Bull fucking shit, he said having a child with Down syndrome is akin to having a pet and that for this reason you shouldn't allow someone with Down syndrome to live in the first place. If he said "people with Down syndrome aren't pets, they're humans and as such deserve to be treated with dignity", that would be "writing that people shouldn't be treating them as if they were pets", and then nobody would be upset about it.

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F3nd1 wrote

he said having a child with Down syndrome is akin to having a pet

He wrote: ‘If you'd like to love and care for a pet that doesn't have normal human mental capacity, don't create a handicapped human being to be your pet.’ That's saying that if you want a pet, you shouldn't give birth to a child for the purpose of acquiring one. (Because to such a parent, it would be akin to having a pet.)

If he said "people with Down syndrome aren't pets, they're humans and as such deserve to be treated with dignity", that would be "writing that people shouldn't be treating them as if they were pets", and then nobody would be upset about it.

Something like ‘they are human beings and I think they deserve the best possible care’? Because that's literally what he wrote later on.

His position on the matter is pretty clear: If you know the child you'll be having most likely has Down's syndrome, he's in support of abortion, because he doesn't think people should be brought into life with such a handicap. But he's all for support of those who have been brought into it already.

I don't see what the problem with that stance is, unless you think abortion in itself is a bad thing. And he explicitly states he's not advocating for any rules about the matter, so it's all more about the parents' approach to the matter.

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