We frequently talk about how eugenics is the ideological backbone of capitalism and how nearly every aspect of capitalism is rooted in eugenics. This happens even in capitalist countries with “universal” healthcare such as Canada, where a hospital recently killed a baby girl by denying her a much-needed liver transplant. Why? Because she had Down Syndrome.
>Krystal Vanderbrugghen gave birth to her daughter, Veya, in December of 2023. She was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect (CHD). Though Veya was able to have a successful heart repair, she then began experiencing complications with her liver.
>In an interview with Live Action News, Vanderbrugghen said Veya is a medically complex child, but her liver has been an ongoing problem, which took nearly a year to diagnose.
>As the hospital attempted treatment with multiple procedures last year, Veya then contracted Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) — which is mild in adults, but can be life-threatening for infants, the elderly, or people with compromised immune systems. “That really knocked her down,” Vanderbrugghen said.But then, this year, something even more frightening occurred.
>“… [T]he more alarming thing that happened was she was overdosed on January 6th of this year with potassium… 10 times the amount of what she normally receives,” Vanderbrugghen told Live Action News. “… [S]he usually gets two doses of potassium in a day. Each are drawn up as 1.5 milliliters. And on that day, she got two syringes filled with 15 milliliters of potassium. So that sent her heart rate to 350 beats per minute, and they had to use cardioversion shocks on her three times to stabilize her.”
>Initially, Vanderbrugghen assumed it was an honest mistake. But due to subsequent events, she’s now questioning if it was truly an accident.
>Just two weeks after this terrifying incident in January, the family met with Veya’s team of doctors treating her liver condition. “… [E]verything we’ve done so far has not been successful,” said Vanderbrugghen. “And that’s when we learned that she was denied a transplant, which left us questioning a lot of things.”
>The reason for the family’s confusion is because all of Veya’s “individual system teams — like cardiology, nephrology, respirology, all of them — said she would do great, and she’s allowed to go for the liver transplant,” she said. The transplant team seeks feedback from those teams to help determine whether a transplant is a good course of action.
>“But [the transplant team] decided that they were looking at the big picture and said no,” Vanderbrugghen said. “And so I’ve been asking for six months, what is this ‘big picture’?”
>When Vanderbrugghen challenged Veya’s medical team, she said she was then told that the doctors “need to think about the live donor. If it’s not successful, we don’t want to put them through it.”
>Vanderbrugghen argued that “consenting adults” can choose whether or not to take the risk, “knowing that it may work or it may not work” — and urged the transplant team to leave the decision to the donor or donors.https://www.liveaction.org/news/mom-fights-save-daughter-canadian-healthcare-dead/This disabled baby later died of her illness on August 1. She was 20 months old and slept her entire life at the mercy of doctors who routinely denied her care BECAUSE of her disability.
So why aren’t comrades up in arms about this? Denying a baby with Down Syndrome an organ transplant because of their disability and “quality of life” sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine if autistic people were denied lifesaving care in the basis our “quality of life” wouldn’t improve and scarce organs should only go to allistic people instead? Canada is already in the middle of legalizing MAiD for neurodivergent differences just like they push MAiD on people with physical disabilities. They literally want all disabled people eradicated.
We need to stop this and demand action against eugenics.
RIP Veya and all other disabled people killed by eugenics
>>2428370and that's a good thing, if we find a embryo does have some highly disabling disease, this embryo shouldn't be allow to be turn into a full human, that what I support, I do not support making life a living hell for already existing disabled people, far from it, I think we should make life more enjoyable and happy as possible for those already living with disable, eugenics would be round up living disable people and eradicate them, that in my view a very serious crime that shouldn't be allowed at all, at the level of a embryo we should tech like abortion, embryo selection and gene editing to make the best and most healthy embryo as possible.
>>2428553Which is why said technology needs to be free and available to all.
Also, the rich already have access to the best healthcare imaginable. All of their medically complex offspring are shipped to group homes so the rich don’t have to deal with them.
>>2428579I don't disagree with that at all, I'm not putting into question the idea of treating and respecting living disabled people, I do think we should respect and treat living disabled people with care and fairness.
>>2428580I think the solution for this problem would be ban on gene editing or embryo selectio on cosmetic traits, and allowing gene editing and embryo selection only for health concerns for the benefit of the future child.
>>2427419>Leftists should be outragedShut up, precious worker hours are wasted by triying to "save" something unsavable.
You should euthanize yourself
>>2418749This reads like a fetish.
Why the fuck do Christian moms romanticize disabled children and peddle them around like props???
>>2430035They are now on a crusade to “expose” the hospital.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNgTeKbu6Sn/?igsh=MTVwNXlzczFvcGlhdg==I’m 100% certain they are going to attack the Canadian healthcare system.
>>2438081Yeah I agree, but then they won't be suffering will they because their brain isn't functioning to experience it.
>>2429265>>2430107Why can't you talk about these people respectfully? Just because a baby has down's syndrome doesn't mean you can use slurs and talk about it like this. Just blame the parents for being Christians and not doing prenatal testing.
>>2427164>Behavior is socially conditioned.*among humans
As the human brain has the most mass vs body size ratio when born compared to other mammals. Our brains are empty hard drives as fetus, meanwhile other mammals get born ready to walk by the second week. Only elephants are comparable to us, and to ones surprise they hold funerals for their dead.
>>2430035It serves to signal that you're a good person (TM)
>>2430056Well I suppose we should have left to die other two babies instead
>>2438067Wait look at that profile picture- there's 6 people?!
Are they known members of some ultraconservative christoid faction?
>>2438203It’s an AI image too.
Fucking Christfags
>>2418918I mean it makes sense that people would be in denial that their baby was braindead or whatever. This is more an issue of letting idiots have kids.
>>2421148>So isolated that it's protocol to anaesthetise "brain dead" patients prior to organ harvesting. The body has reflexive reactions to pain whether or not the brain is alive. Brain death doesn't cause the peripheral nervous system to die immediately.
>>2428315Have you ever suffered from deliberating chronic illness?
>HeavenHas nothing to do with whether a life is worth living. If you lack freedom, dignity and anything that makes getting up in the morning worthwhile, it's better to be dead.
>>2447943Correct, and under communism this type of build-a-baby will be free and universal for anyone to use.
The people who are trying to hold back said technology from existing are really no better than reactionaries.
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