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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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Halemyre
I'm reminded of an account i read by a woman who had to quit her job, her savings were being drained, and she was unable to have a life outside of caring for her severely developmentally disabled son. She knew this would be the rest of her life and she hated him.
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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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Halemyre 🏴
@Halemyre
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@Aella_Girl
Yes the current framework is subpar. As a long term solution, we ought to push for Congress to overhaul the program ASAP, devote more of the Govt spending bill to this program & cut excess elsewhere. But can we really suspend the person's right to life as a stop gap arrangement?
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Noelle
@noellevivante
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@Aella_Girl
Go into debt? I don’t know what to tell you except you are legit saying that one persons life is worth more than another’s. It’s disgusting that we live in a society where we have people richer than a nation and they still can’t pay for this stuff. :(
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Kathleen
@KathleenInMd
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@Aella_Girl
And if a working mom can’t afford daycare, euthanasia is a great solution Elderly parents-Unemployed burdens on society-People on welfare Why care for the poor, the disabled, the outcasts? Just kill them and be done with it I’m sure they’d rather be dead than despised by you
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Kathleen
@KathleenInMd
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@Aella_Girl
Parents should only keep their kids alive if it’s profitable and puts money in their pockets. We don’t want people caring for their children, putting the needs of a vulnerable child before their own. Parents should kill children when they’re inconvenient
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Aksinia
@Aksinia00447
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@Aella_Girl
It's a risk you take on if you choose to have a kid. It's also one of the reasons why abortion must be accessible - for those of us unwilling to take that risk.
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