The Eliminators: Eugenics by default
Townhall.com Chuck Colson August 3, 2006
British medical researchers recently announced plans to use cutting-edge science to eliminate a condition my family is familiar with: autism. Actually, they are not “curing” autism or even making life better for autistic people. Their plan is to eliminate autism by eliminating autistic people.
There is no in utero test for autism as there is for Down syndrome. As I have previously told “BreakPoint” listeners, that testing, combined with abortion-on-demand, has made people with Down syndrome an endangered population. By some estimates, 90 percent of these people—who, if allowed to live, can live happy and healthy lives—are aborted.
In the absence of such a test for autism, researchers at University College Hospital London are settling for what they call a “close enough” solution. They have applied for permission to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, to screen out male embryos in families with a history of autism.
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Thursday 03 Aug 2006 | Jacobse | Eugenics |
First of all I will say I am a devout Orthodox Christian. My sister-in-las has both a boy and GIRL with autism. The abortion above described would have been ineffective. The pain a parent has with two autistic children is beyond belief. She is dedicated a devout RC, but I will tell you this situation is killing her. The children are now almost teenagers, they are fearsom in their responses their actions and their attitudes. They go to the best schools in the world, NY City. Yet they are now uncontrollable. Their father could not take it. He was not a coward, he was just mentally exausted and truely worn out. I know abortion is a sin, but seeing this family destroyed, the hopelessness of the situation, one questions if this horrible situation could be solved by in utero intervention, yes abortion. For me to say this shakes my very soul, but how much can people endure on this earth. I think that the situation is causing problems with my sister-in-law she has been the victim of her son’s violent out bursts, she has been hit, scratched kicked. She is not a big woman, he son is big and strappling like his father. She says where can I take him, some horrible insitution or some foster care? God is her salvation, but at this time in her life gives her little hope. God forgive me but what can she do?
I have a sister who has a child with Cerebral Palsy. Cole is defiantly on the severe side, and of course requires 24/7 care. Her marriage broke down also, though I hesitate to contribute to much of this fact to their disabled child. Situations like these bring to the mind the “problem of pain” in a way that reason can not handle. I have often thought that part of God’s mercy will manifest itself in the eschaton as “the dred judgment of God”. In other words, God will in some way have to justify his ways to us. Christianity has always been careful to say that God has no part in evil, however the “existential” situation we find ourselves in is attributed to the curse - the results of the fall which was Adam’s choosing. Still, one can ask God “What are you waiting for? How long will you tarry? Where is thy second coming”? Knowing (well, at least in part) the depths of my own sin, I know how hollow it is to say to your sister or mine:
“Do not succumb to the temptation of the easy life (or “normal” life), for there is really no such thing. Take hold of what God has put in front of you for He is there. Love (for it is Love and only Love who can truly say “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”) is there, right there in your children”
Only Saints should say such things - only they even begin to live such things. So I keep my big trap shut. I live the easy, the “normal” life - and I too would contemplate the darkest sin to protect it. I too am “free among the dead”. What a terrible freedom this life is…
Psalm 88
1O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Christopher & Ron, I cannot begin to really understand your pain, but I can offer this. In Wichita, KS there is an instituion which used to be the world leader in the treatment of brain dysfunction especially autism. I have not had any significant contact with them in decades, so I do not know if they have been able to maintain the elite status they once enjoyed. Nevertheless, they might be able to help your relatives. Follow this link: http://www.heartspring.org/workshop.html