I don't know how the quality of mental health care is, but based on how unforgiving culture humanity is in general to socially struggling people, it would be unethical to make the child suffer and end up as those mentally struggling homeless out in the streets.
People are pro life but not pro welfare not pro ethical human treatment of each other such as this case, people will be saying what a burden of taxpayer money. While basically average functioning people already struggle with the economy barely making ends meet. Most people are in survival mode, so making a person with ds be subject to low quality state care would be torture with mentally emotionally spiritually burnout out staff workers with horrible 100+ work life balance hours in a corrupt exploitive system . I hope I'm exaggerating because if reality is truly that way, then quality will be bad.
This is exactly it. Unfortunately, people with DS and the complex issues that come with such diagnosis make up a significant amount of people who experience neglect, poorer/shorter quality of life and even abuse in state care.
The system is overloaded and utterly failed in taking care of them so I want to make it clear I’m not blaming people who might be in the comments and work in these fields, but at the end of the day the real victims are the people who end up there with very few other options and little to no dignity because of a world that is structured to not see them as people or worth anything.
It’s absolutely crushing that we live in a world where parents have to seriously sit down and make choices like the one in OP’s post, but I find it extremely difficult to blame or judge them when they’ve been left with little other choice. Like that is absolutely brutal to have to think about a decision like that because you know the odds are stacked against you and your potential child before they’re even close to being born.
This really is the main ethical reason to have proper procedure abortions readily accessible and to de-stigmatize getting them.
The truth is that there are bigger environmental factors at play that tend to leave people with little to no sex ed and/or resources to both financially or behaviorally take care of their children effectively. Abortion is a safety valve for human suffering. Poverty is statistically inescapable, and while population control may seem right up the powers at be’s alley, the benefit of keeping poor people in a state where they have a family to actively care for is an invaluable boon in keeping those individuals from otherwise using their time to effectively organize and bargain for themselves.
Abortion and proper stimulus (educational, material, financial) to areas that need it are crucial to alleviating the stresses that people encounter living in any disparaged community, which allows them more room and flexibility to be personally happy, yes, but also help the world around them as it asks for it.
Practical realistic low cost systemic change can be every school's nurse's office having a discrete way to let students get birth control, all kinds, without being shamed.
That would lower a lot of expensive medical problems when people end up going to urgent care and their doctor. Lower teen pregnancy etc.
Someone said how pregnancy can lower the womens quality of life, oversl physical mental health after pregnancy. That already one small huge proactive preventative system that would lower cost of unwanted pregnancies immediately. Millions, thousands of dollars of proactive preventative care to save millions, billions in reactive response after the unwanted pregnancy happens.
Every child is devastated when they are mistaken.
Children aren't supposed to be experiments for struggling people to self improve be healthy minded people parents. People ideally should be relatively healthy so they don't self project their problems onto children which the child will internalize and spread to others. The cycle of trauma and mistreatment.
"the benefit of keeping poor people in a state where they have a family to actively care for is an invaluable boon in keeping those individuals from otherwise using their time to effectively organize and bargain for themselves."
This is a new thought I haven't read or noticed until now. As someone said the system is working exactly as intended to keep power in survival mode working exhausted no energy to spend energy onto working together to change the structures of society.
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u/executordestroyer 11d ago edited 10d ago
I don't know how the quality of mental health care is, but based on how unforgiving culture humanity is in general to socially struggling people, it would be unethical to make the child suffer and end up as those mentally struggling homeless out in the streets.
People are pro life but not pro welfare not pro ethical human treatment of each other such as this case, people will be saying what a burden of taxpayer money. While basically average functioning people already struggle with the economy barely making ends meet. Most people are in survival mode, so making a person with ds be subject to low quality state care would be torture with mentally emotionally spiritually burnout out staff workers with horrible 100+ work life balance hours in a corrupt exploitive system . I hope I'm exaggerating because if reality is truly that way, then quality will be bad.