Slashdot Mirror
Y2K Bug Blamed For Miscalculated Down Syndrome Risk
Albanach writes: "The BBC are reporting in this story that the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, England is blaming the Millennium Bug for getting wrong 150 tests for Down Syndrome with four mothers going on to give birth to affected children." The article actually idicates that four women were pregnant with Down Syndrome babies, and that two of them brought the pregnancies to term.
For an enlightening read on Down's syndrome kids, go here.
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
... than using an abacus!
Defective humans were born before they could be murdered!
This is worse than the WTC attack!
This is the best effect of Y2K I've seen yet if it prevented two babies from being murdered.
I've worked with mentally handicapped kids, and believe me, they're glad they were born, they enjoy life, and they're a lot nicer than most people I know.
Anyone who has ever worked with Down's babies and children know that they are wonderfully special and deserve all the love they can get. Any mother who knows she is carrying a Down's baby and chooses the terminate shouldn't be a mother.
I find it hard to believe that any mother actually giving birth to her child was considered a "mistake". I hope to God those children never grow up to read this article, and learn about the "mistake" that resulted in thier births.
If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy
Good thing they'll be too stupid to comprehend it, huh?
You ever go fishing?
When you go fishing, sometimes there's a limit. With kids, there's a limit too - most families only have the resources (time, money, etc) to have a few children. Now if you can only take 2 fish home, and it's REAL easy to catch fish, are you going to bring home two scrawny fish, deformed and ugly with little edible flesh? Hell no, you're going to toss em back and try again until you get something worthwhile.
Because apparently, it's inconvenient and stressful to have give birth and raise a child with less than 50% of the mental capabilities of a healthy child. Gee, that must just suck that you're so inconvenienced. I guess those 'terminated' pregancies (i.e. - dead babies) will just have to join their wrongfully killed brethren from the WTC's too. Sometimes this world's hypocrisy makes me sick. Instead of this story being upbeat about how many babies were born WITHOUT Downs Syndrome, it's a story about how many false results resulted in inaccurate 'terminations.'
I have to condone /. editors for posting this. /.
/. audience more emotional.
Emotions are still running very high because of Tuesdays events, and this is just enticing a Prolife vs Prochoice troll war on
Lets take it easy people, we're all still a bit touchy, so don't start arguing about this.
What's really dumb is that there is cool articles that aren't being posted, like how Kim Schultz, famous German hacker turned internet millionaire is offering $10million to info about the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. But instead we get something to make the
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
My purpose in life is to bring children into the world that are healthy, can bear children, and are productive members of society. Whether the child with downs syndrome is happy or not is irrelevant. Nurturing the weak flies in the face of nature.
The Code Red virus saves a rainforest when idiots opening attachments trigger the massive forwarding of an environmentalist email petition?
Seen any BadMarketing lately?
(nt)
Alas, once the abomination has been brought into the world unhealthy, deformed, or retarded it is too late. Better to play it safe. Don't feed the weak.
...probably a pro-life programmer.
Those poor mothers who had those children were inconvenienced!
Can't you all see that this is far more important than a fetus' supposed "right" to life?
The taxpayers who will be supporting these tards for life won't be cheering.
You mean Mrs. Buttle, don't you?
There will be no women posting any pro-life sentiments re: this article.
All females will be on the side of "kill the retards before they're born! Kill 'em all!!"
So what's wrong with that? Way back when, these babies would have never been kept. And they shouldn't be kept now. That is the way of all things.
who wants a downs syndrome child? i would be appalled if one ofmy children were, and i am appalled every time i see one...leeching on society. they dont even have minds. they have no feelings. they are not even human, just total freaks of nature that our liberal government wants to accept. testing for and aborting them shuld be a federal law punishable by death.
That was not flamebait. It was an attack on the author, and the concept of human life seen as a mistake. In other words, it wasn't flamebait, but flame. Sorry for having an opinion, and using quotation marks. Assholes.
If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy