PBH203H: Health of the Child

• amniocentisis, pre-natal screening, eugenics
• Cleft_lip_and_cleft_palate and cosmetic Cleft_lip_and_cleft_palate#Abortion_controversy
• Trisomy 21
  • stats on down syndrome and abortion (90-100%)
• Microcephaly (Zika virus)
• Noah Wall

• Terminal/bleak prognosis
  • Anencephaly
  • Trisomy 18 - Eliot
    • Eliot's legacy: 99 Balloons and Matt Mooney details from 2016 Toronto visit…
    • Bonus: Jaxton's story
  • Trisomy 13 - Thomas
    • need a shorter version of this to share it in a seminar
  • Potter's Syndrome - Matthew
    • from Blaise's personal notes, if his mom gives permission
  • http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/profound_wonder_not_fear_is_the_way_to_welcome_babies_with_fatal_conditions
  • https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-parents-know-their-newborns-wont-live-long-1489175596

Dialogue:

• Clarifying question: Do you support abortion in any situation, or only in these situations?
• Trot out the Toddler:
  • If there's an inconsistency, then it's a classic pre-born human rights case of establishing the humanity of pre-born children
  • If they bite the bullet, then it's really abortion as euthanasia and it's QUIT apologetics
  • Bleak prognosis for the child: Stephanie Gray offers a conversation approach

    • (until 35:39) –> When we have a short amount of time left with a loved one, why would we cut that short time even shorter?

    • http://www.stephaniegray.info/blog/2015/12/18/so-your-child-has-down-syndrome
    • in dialogue, this line of questioning tends to work really well because if it's a heart issue, the Q is powerful for addressing the heart, and if it's a head issue re: status of the fetus, it will be easy to re-direct back to basic apologetics
  • http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/why-chose-meet-baby-even-11413659
    • “Simply, we were not going to be the cause of our daughter's death. Her death would already be a source of suffering, we would not add to her suffering by means of abortion…Who would we be to have denied her life and not given her that chance to meet and be loved by her family?”

• Brandan Bosma and Mosiac Trisomy 18
  • Remember Trisomy 18, and how it's always terminal?

  • narrow down the time range for a shorter excerpt

  • OR
  • “hole in his heart” - but all he needed was a heart surgery after birth
  • He faced such discrimination from medical professionals who felt his cause was hopeless and that he was doomed
    • his comparison to poor outcomes from Trisomy 21 50 years ago, until care improved… medical discrimination
  • CPL conference, and medical student saying, “We learned last week that Trisomy 18 is always terminal, yet here you are standing here talking to us”