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This is probably one of the darkest aspects of my worldview that I don't like to talk about. Our society has become way, way too dysgenic. It's even become trendy on the Right to adopt babies with autism and down syndrome in order to boost your anti-abortion, anti-Nazi street cred... It all started around the same time that Sarah Palin decided to give birth to her child even though she knew that it had down syndrome. Giving birth to a handicapped baby or adopting a handicapped baby is like the Right's version of adopting African babies.
Parents have an irrational attachment to their severely handicapped children. I won't link any pictures because it's so disturbing, but parents are actually choosing to give birth to babies with harlequin-type ichthyosis even though it's an absolutely horrific birth defect where the infant will suffer horribly before they die - and all because abortion = murder/eugenics/Nazism. These babies literally look like they were born inside out...
The state absolutely has to intervene in the cases of severe birth defects, especially if the birth defects are genetically caused, because most modern parents simply will not give up on their kids no matter how screwed up they are.
One of my ex-girlfriends in college was studying to become a special needs teacher, and her and I would do volunteer work at a center for kids with severe mental and physical disabilities. I was always polite and friendly on the outside when we went there, but on the inside seeing so much suffering was tearing me apart emotionally. These severely handicapped kids were literally vegetables that were going to be stuck in their wheelchairs and looked after like infants for their entire lives. Not only were they physically handicapped, but they were mentally handicapped as well. They had absolutely no idea what was going on around them, they couldn't feed themselves, they were drooling constantly, they had to wear diapers, et cetera. It fucking tears me up just thinking about how many centers like this exist across the world.
Taking care of these types of people probably destroys entire families simply because they require so much effort and attention to look after. And they also cost an absolute fortune to care for. My friend's brother has severe epilepsy and autism, and he told me that his generic anti-seizure medication costed several thousand dollars per month... And something ridiculous like 60 million Americans are on disability. And anyone that understands the forbidden science of dysgenics knows that this problem is just going to get worse and worse every year.
The state needs to start stepping in, doing the necessary evil, and then the parents can simply try again.
I also support humane versions of eugenics - such as genome sequencing, embryo selection, precision gene editing, and early term abortion - in order to solve 99% of this problem.

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