Originally Posted by Maroon 300D

The way I read this, the complainants are saying they should never have been born at all. If this were the mothers alleging malpractice it would be different and perhaps more open-and-shut.

What's troubling to me about this is that people might use it to justify treating babies born with disabilities in an inhumane way (and just because I quoted koop, I'm not alleging he feels that way!). I've seen disabled people, even severely disabled people, have an important positive impact on other people's lives. Just because one disabled person evidently feels their life is not worth living (the other complainant was only 5!), I would hope that others won't use that fact to justify doing horrible things to people.

Our lives are our own and we can either live them or not. When you look at someone who is severely disabled, or even just in a wheelchair, you may feel sorry for them or even think that if it were you, you would rather be dead. If it were your life, though, you would probably feel very different about it, and so would people who cared about you. At least the ones who didn't just like you because you drive a Mercedes!