Seeing what my cousin goes through daily, I would absolutely abort a child if it was determined to be heavily autistic or disabled
Like holy shit guys, what a life for both my cousin AND her daughter. The daughter is 2 and half, can’t walk or crawl, can’t talk in any way or form, not even partial words, is mostly deaf without her hearing aides, doesn’t respond to the presence of people/faces/most outside stimuli, hates all touch, throws constant tantrums, and is basically at the doctor’s or some specialist’s nearly every day for some problem or brand new issue, requiring some form of therapy or treatment. She’s probably been to the hospital in 1 month than I have been my whole life, and I’m not some paragon of health either, lol! It’s just a really REALLY tortured fucking existence for her, and like…she’s not even at its worst stage yet. It’s going to get just SO much incredibly worse.
Meanwhile, my cousin is now full time caretaker and is spending tens of thousands of dollars she doesn’t have to get the best care she can for her baby. She’s a fantastic mother, and we help out where we can, but it obviously consumes most of her life caring for her. Where’s dad? Oh, he’s a hopeless fucking drunk who emotionally blackmailed my cousin for years, convincing her having a child together would fix everything! I’m 90% convinced his alcoholic, diseased sperm is what damaged that poor child to begin with, given most birth defects come from the male side of the equation. That’s neither here nor there though, but back to that loser’s absence, she left him, and he’s back living at mommy’s because he’s been lying about being employed the last 5 months, and would just go out day-drinking off their savings every day. So yeah, dear old dad isn’t really part of the picture.
What kind of life is it for those two though? I would never choose to eliminate anyone who is currently viable, but if I knew this life was awaiting my child and I? I’d terminate without a second thought. If MY parents knew, I would pray to sweet baby Jesus they’d schloop me out and flush me like a dead goldfish! Fuck, if *I* became irreparably brain damaged, and I lost my sense of self and needed 24/7 care, I would want literally ANY of you to come and euthanize me in person. So I know my stance sounds harsh, but it’s nothing I wouldn’t take as a judgement on myself either.