Society’s Schizophrenia with Disabled Children

A survey of pediatricians and pediatric surgeons revealed that more than two out of three would go along with parents’ wishes to deny lifesaving surgery to a child with Down syndrome. On the one hand, we provide special parking and elevators for the handicapped. We talk tenderly about those poster children with spins bifida and Down syndrome. We sponsor the Special Olympics and cheer on the competitors, speaking joy and inspiration they bring us. But when we hear a woman is carrying one of these very children, we say, “kill it.”

Alcorn, Randy C. "What About Disabled and Unwanted Children?" Why Pro-Life? Sandy, Or.: Eternal Perspective Ministries, 2004. 85-86. Print.