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Aella
@Aella_Girl
would you support the right for parents to legally end the life of children who are proven beyond-a-doubt to be severely, permanentally mentally handicapped; e.g., cannot function on their own, needs help going to the bathroom, cannot be left unsupervised
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  • No
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Halemyre 🏴
@Halemyre
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@Aella_Girl
Non-voluntary, active euthanasia due to inconvenience, very cool! 👍 On a serious note, this is the same logic used to put down dogs that are too sick due to age, now being applied to children. I'm perplexed by these results. 👀
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Halemyre 🏴
@Halemyre
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@Aella_Girl
I deeply sympathize with her burden. I'd support a gov't program to take on this responsibility from her. I just don't see how the individual's right to life is conditional on the degree to which they're a burden to others. I'd like to entertain alternatives before going there.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Halemyre
yeah, a program would be great; but she couldn't get her son into one, iirc there was a waiting list for just 'partial' care and the list was years and kept getting delayed. What would you suggest if a parent doesn't have that option?
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Rachel Elisabeth | Gimme 🌨🌨
@raelee514
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@Aella_Girl
And you feel compassion for her blaming HER CHILD and not the system that made her life harder. Oh let's just kill people instead making a more compassionate world? Yeah guess throwing away the disabled is easier.
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Alex 🏳️‍🌈
@Alex_Autistic
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@Aella_Girl
Yes, we desperately need good, state funded disability provision, respite care, and a better foster system. Not the right for parents to murder children they don't want!
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