To show you how little versed I am in local issues, I was unaware that Santorum's younger daughter Bella was born with Trisomy 18. To read D'Arcy's post is clearly to side with the indignation against medical rationing of quality of life issues, but does Janice herself see the larger picture involved? I will presume, for the sake of argument, that Amelia's mental retardation is significantly less severe than my deceased sister's. If you give her the kidney, what will her quality of life be when she is in her forties, and her parents are dead or in their own decline? If the state of Pennsylvania needs to so severely restrict Paratransit services that I cannot competively hold a job and get myself off the draconian social security death trap, and be repeatedly screwed by federally mandated disability service centers, what is the outpouring of protest for these children achieving? Society has to be willing to pay out to achieve the blind equality that the west sees as a birthright, and it doesn't do that, even as we squabble over Mitt Romney's rewards for his venture capital risks.
As for Bella, if she makes it to adolescence, will her parents deem her suffering justified according to their faith? If I'm still here they will receive no commiseration from me.
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