Adoption of mentally impaired babies

[Godscreated]

Today children with mental disabilities are keep separate from other kids, my niece works in the public school system here and she works in the class for the mentally disabled, our school systems have become more compassionate towards children with disabilities.
A good mother would also protect her child from such bullying, love is a powerful thing and shouldn't be taken lightly.
You say you wouldn't do that to your kid, I ask what kid, you would have relegated it to a trash can. You wouldn't have a child to love and protect, you would never know the joy of a child that happens to see the world through different eyes, loving eyes,trusting eyes.

It may sound callous to you but that's my opinion on the matter. And you can always make another one that won't be mentally or otherwise disabled.
As for the schools - ok, you'll enlist it in a school for disabled kids but you still can't protect it from everything and everyone. There will always be someone who'll bully the kid for not being normal.
May be the fact that I'll never have kids makes me so... callous on the matter but that's the way it is. Still, it doesn't mean I think any less of you. You asked for opinion and I posted mine. I always say what I think.

Just because you think a child like this would be a pain in the ass

I never said that, Deb! I only asked whether a mother's selfishness is worth spawning a kid that will always be finger pointed as "the different one" or even "the retarded one" and will basically be regarded by people only to mock at it. I doubt that there's a mother who wouldn't want her kid to be normal and not to be mocked at by other people.
Anyway, it seems you don't understand what I meant, so I'll leave this topic for another time.

Catholic Lady didn't write that it was me, GC. She said she did not want to address the subject of abortion, but I did, why, because my wife and I have taken into our home a young lady who was born with a mental disability compounded by schizophrenia at the age of 30. She is the greatest delight, she is the best thing to come into my life in many years. Can she be trying and frustrating of coarse, but that is a minor inconvenience compared to the joy we receive. If her mother had aborted this child I would have missed out on one of the greatest joys in my life. When we have her in public people do not make fun of her and if they did she would probably laugh along with them because she wouldn't understand what they were doing. If someone was to do that in front of me I can promise you I would take embarrassment to the next level for them, they would think twice before doing something like that again to anyone. The stories I could tell people about her and how people have accepted her and love her. Abortion is not an option and neither is love, you don't do the first and you give the second unconditionally.

GC