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
>>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.
>>2447943In full communis, it will become unnecessary to want that, because it won't confer any actual benefits, and the eugenicist bourgeois ideology won't exist either
the ideal communist body will be a giant cranium with two thin arms to operate machinery
just like lenin
>>2447943>Eugenics is inevitableThere is no alternative to dictatorship of the PMC Jeffrey Epstein neoliberals
>>2458801>Not everything is because of capitalism. People considered to have better quality of life get prioritized by doctors over the disabled because of the limited availability of organs.no-historical materialism radlibs like you would fit in very neatly with the Peter Singer PMC. His philosophy ended up being neatly aligned with these disgusting AI neoliberals with their "Effective altruism" and "rationalism" and "long termism" and "Abundance" and other Zionist marketing technocrat buzzwords
>>2430056That's not a baby.
That's a monster.
>>2418781The only bourgeois criteria is ability to pay.
If there's one kidney and two patients, the capitalist solution is to start a bidding war. What do you propose as a socialist solution?
>>2484705Doctors do go out of their way to save obese people, and their treatments usually fail.
Also, I wouldn't give a lung transplant to a smoker unless they underwent anti-smoking treatment to help them quit. Why would I waste perfectly good tires on a car I knew was going to break down unless immediately repaired?
>>2484719My examples already happen all the time in universal healthcare systems. Doctors do save smokers and people who are morbidly obese. And their treatments usually fail.
In healthcare, you save whom you can save with the treatments that are within reason. The girl with Down syndrome in OP's post had no chance of survival even if she did get a proper liver transplant.
>>2484726No. I'm saying that it's ridiculous to waste resources and care on patients who have zero chance of being cured or surviving. That's exactly how it works in universal healthcare systems, even in AES countries. China doesn't keep terminally ill patients hooked on to three different machines for months and months on the basis that a medical miracle will "save" them.
Let me ask you: if you were a doctor in this situation, or part of a medical board, would you approve a very risky organ transplant procedure for a toddler with Down syndrome who has a very big chance of dying even if the transplant is successful? If yes, what's your reasoning and the logic behind your reasoning?
>>2418749Really???? Without the cooperation and blessing of the parents????
That WOULD be fucked up. Only that didn't happen. Go back to 4chan with that kind of shit subject line.
>>2484739You didn’t answer my question at all.
The median lifespan of a person with Down’s is 40. Within that span they have a very high chance of dying prematurely from things like heart defects, lung defects, liver/kidney defects, childhood leukaemia, etc. If organs are scarce I’m not going to prioritize a Downie. That’s the equivalent of putting expensive tires on your piece-of-shit car that’s highly likely to break down within a short amount of time.
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