Comments on: Parents sue for pre-natal misdiagnosis of Down syndrome http://bioethike.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fbioethike.com%2F2009%2F06%2F15%2Fparents-sue-for-prenatal-misdiagnosis-of-down-syndrome%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Parents+sue+for+pre-natal+misdiagnosis+of+Down+syndrome Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Robert http://bioethike.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fbioethike.com%2F2009%2F06%2F15%2Fparents-sue-for-prenatal-misdiagnosis-of-down-syndrome%2F%23comment-1334&seed_title=Parents+sue+for+pre-natal+misdiagnosis+of+Down+syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-1334 Robert Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:58:40 +0000 http://bioethike.com/?p=963#comment-1334 Thank you for your heart-felt post. Thank you for your heart-felt post.

]]> By: GKL http://bioethike.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fbioethike.com%2F2009%2F06%2F15%2Fparents-sue-for-prenatal-misdiagnosis-of-down-syndrome%2F%23comment-1313&seed_title=Parents+sue+for+pre-natal+misdiagnosis+of+Down+syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 GKL Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:42:32 +0000 http://bioethike.com/?p=963#comment-1313 They are heartless. As a father of a special needs child, I find the assertion that parents love their Down Syndrome child as much as their other children, but would have killed her had a they known before she was born that she had Down Syndrome to be preposterous. We do not kill those whom we love nor do we sue others for giving us inaccurate information that prevented us from killing someone whom we now claim to love. Put simply, it is a lie. Were I their two older children, I would find frightening the assertion that their younger disabled sibling is just as dear to their parents as they are. Apparently, none of their children are so dear to them that they wouldn't have killed them had they known before their birth that they would be disabled. Hopefully, the Levys will learn that God gives us burdens as blessings, not as curses. Special needs children require special effort, effort that changes their parents. Those changes can be for the better, a become a blessing, or for worse, and become a curse. The mother and father, through the grace of God, largely determine which it is. They are heartless. As a father of a special needs child, I find the assertion that parents love their Down Syndrome child as much as their other children, but would have killed her had a they known before she was born that she had Down Syndrome to be preposterous. We do not kill those whom we love nor do we sue others for giving us inaccurate information that prevented us from killing someone whom we now claim to love. Put simply, it is a lie.

Were I their two older children, I would find frightening the assertion that their younger disabled sibling is just as dear to their parents as they are. Apparently, none of their children are so dear to them that they wouldn't have killed them had they known before their birth that they would be disabled.

Hopefully, the Levys will learn that God gives us burdens as blessings, not as curses. Special needs children require special effort, effort that changes their parents. Those changes can be for the better, a become a blessing, or for worse, and become a curse. The mother and father, through the grace of God, largely determine which it is.

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