I
am a liberal, Jewish, pro-choice Democrat. I find Sarah Palin to be
scarily conservative, excessively religious and alarmingly ignorant. I
would never vote for any ticket she was on. I do, however, absolutely
respect one thing about her: her decision not to abort her son with
Down Syndrome, as 80% of parents do.
I never had to make that
decision. But I do have a son with autism, and - like many parents of
children with disabilities - have a big problem with the assumption
that children who are less intelligent are somehow less human or
deserving of life than "normal" kids. And more and more people with
Down Syndrome are challenging those long-held beliefs all the time, by
greatly exceeding society's expectations of what a "retarded"
individual should be capable of achieving.
Take Zach Wincent, for example . . .
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