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In reply to the discussion: AZ Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Not Inform Women Of Prenatal Issues To Prevent Abortions [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)to pay for and support a child with this condition for the rest of their life? I mean even AFTER the parents themselves are dead. Then they want to cut Medicade too? Bring back State run Asylums? Bring back Willowbrooks? That is what happened in the past when parents could no longer care, physically, emotionally, or financially, for these kids.
I worked with one Willowbrook "graduate" who was in her 50s. She could not talk, walk, feed, or toilet herself. Her parents put her in that institution as a little girl, and wanted nothing more to do with her. No, nobody ever adopted these SEVERELY physically and mentally disabled children. Her parents passed away years ago. Her only living relative was a younger sister. When the agency tried to contact her sister about her care, her sister wrote, "Do not contact me ever again about my sister's care." "I only wish to be contacted when my sister has passed away and I need to make arrangements for her burial."
I wonder what Saint Rick would have to say about that? What is his SOLUTION for the care of these disabled children who MUST BE BORN, cared, and supported, for the rest of their lives by parents who don't have the MONEY he does?