I'll be upfront that this is a third rail for me because since I was in high school when I volunteered helping with the Special Olympics something I've kept up with every year and I'm now well into my 30s. I did it at first because we were forced/voluntold to do so when I was playing football as a way of giving back to the community, and like I'd imagine a lot of people I was at first like "ew retards they probably smell and are gross." I could not have been more wrong, they're some of the most positive, genuinely funny, and fun to be around kids you can possibly imagine. And I find it to be spiritually fulfilling to do volunteer work like that. Do they have more specialized difficulties than other kids? Of course, but I've talked to many special needs parents and any one of them would tell you they wouldn't sacrifice anything to not have their kid, even with all the challenges that come with raising a special needs child.
So forgive me for being a bit MATI and thinking that not only is this extremely fucking selfish of these yuppy fucks, I'd even go as far to say as I think this is fucking evil. I'm pretty much against abortion fullstop, I think it should be the nuclear option. AKA only for extreme circumstances like rape, incest, etc. Like on one hand I can be sympathetic to the difficulties of raising a kid with Down Syndrome, but how fucking selfish can you be to take a life like that? It's something that doesn't compute for me. What so you can continue to be DINKs and be "influencers"? I don't know man, I just see red when I see articles like this, I can't imagine being that shallow and selfish when it comes to something like that. I'm not saint, I fuck up too, but again like I said this is a third rail for me.