When I was a hospital porter I sometimes took a bus home
after my early shift and I often ended up sitting next to a man called Martin I
knew at the hospital who worked as a canteen server in Catering. He was a short
and stocky man with a slightly hunched back. His eyes were slanted and close
together and he had protruding lips and an oversized tongue which impaired his
speech somewhat. Although he was a grown man he was clearly retarded and
childlike; yet we used to have some great conversations. Like a child, he often
had extraordinary insights that might escape somebody with higher intelligence who
is more conditioned by conformity. He only worked part-time, but was a diligent
employee. The other catering staff spoke highly of him. He lived with his
mother and father who loved him dearly. Martin had Down's syndrome, a condition
which affects some sixty thousand people in Britain .
It is caused by an extra chromosome being produced in the genome at conception.
Babies born with Down's syndrome suffer numerous mental and physical handicaps
such as deformed hands and feet, problems with their heart, lungs and digestive
system, and vision or hearing difficulties. The condition is incurable and
there is no way to prevent it. It is not hereditary, in other words it doesn't
run in families. It emerges in the same proportions across all racial and
cultural groups. It strikes randomly and the only risk factor appears to be the
age of the parents, especially the mother. A mother who bears a child at the
end of her reproductive life, her late forties or early fifties, has a three
percent chance of the baby being Down's; yet with a twenty year old mother that
statistic is only 0.05%. Down's syndrome people have always existed and they
always will. Despite their health problems, with the right care, people with
Down's syndrome can have a good quality of life. They usually live until late
middle age.
I think my memory of speaking with Martin added to the
disquiet I felt at the weekend when I spoke to a fellow delegate at the Bases
at the Black Swan conference (See here for details: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/programme-243-podcast-miles-johnston.html).
She and her partner have a daughter who is aged about seven and has Down's
syndrome. They showed me some photos of her. She is a blonde-haired little girl
who was smiling broadly for the camera. The mother clearly loves her daughter,
yet she told me that if her doctor had had his way her little girl would never
even have been born. There is no cure for Down's syndrome, as I said, but
mothers can have tests during pregnancy that can diagnose the condition.
However, if the test comes out positive the only way to prevent the mother
giving birth to a Down's baby is to terminate the pregnancy. Therefore these
tests are only usually taken by couples for whom termination is an option. The
mother can have blood tests in the second trimester of pregnancy that can give
a statistical probability of the risk of the baby being Down's, but cannot tell
for sure. A mother whose result is high probability is then offered a second,
far more positive but far more invasive form of screening via procedures called
amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling; however this involves sticking a
needle into the uterus and it carries a 0.5 to one percent change of
miscarriage from the test alone. This official government webpage gives
details: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/screening-amniocentesis-downs-syndrome.aspx.
The fellow delegate told me that she had been called into the clinic by her
obstetrician and told that the results for her quadruple test indicated a high
risk of Down's syndrome. What surprised her was that at no point was she told
by her midwife that she was even being given the quadruple test in the first
place. The midwife had take blood samples from the delegate, but she never once
asked if the delegate consented to the quadruple test. Interestingly, the
midwife in the video on the government webpage above says that secondary tests,
the amniocentesis and CVS, would be done after "counselling and proper
consent". Does this mean that primary testing does not require proper
consent? The obstetrician said as much to the fellow delegate. He told her that
all patients in NHS maternity services are automatically screened for Down's
syndrome hormonal markers as a matter of routine. This is not what the above
webpage says; in fact it states: "You
do not need to have this screening test; it is your choice whether or not to
have it. Some people want to find out the chance of their baby having these
conditions, and some do not." The doctor then went on to recommend
amniocentesis or CVS to the fellow delegate and told her that if it came out
positive then she would be offered a termination. The doctor suggested this
immediately, while his patient was still reeling from the worrying news of the
test result. He never gave her the opportunity to recover and think it over. The
fellow delegate was not happy about this yet the doctor persisted. Pretty soon
it became clear that the words "recommend" and "offered"
were to be interpreted in their broadest possible sense. The more she argued
the more insistent the doctor became. He started warning her about the
difficulties of raising a Down's syndrome child, the health problems the child
would inevitably suffer, the stress that being a mother to the child would have
on her own mental health and the risk of her marriage breaking up as a result
etc. This was obviously a tactic to make her feel guilty. Strangely she was
never asked if she would be willing to give birth to the baby and have it
adopted out; this used to be an option when I started out in portering. My
fellow delegate was not persuaded and began to resent the doctor's tone. She
told him she wanted to go home, but the doctor replied that he wished to
"continue the consultation." It was literally almost a
foot-in-the-door situation. He kept talking to her on the way out, becoming
almost manic in his resolve. Luckily the fellow delegate was made of stern
enough stuff to resist him. This brought back a memory of a conversation I had
with a patient once during the early years when I served in maternity. I've
often found patients will confide in porters in a way they will not with their
doctors and nurses; therefore a hospital porter often picks up some amazing
stories. This post-natal patient and her husband had been in a very similar
situation to my fellow delegate, although this was in the early 1990's. She had
given the baby up for adoption and her sister and brother-in-law, who could not
have children of their own, were now the baby's legal parents. However her
midwives and obstetrician were "not happy" with her decision and
tried to talk her out of it in the same way they had my fellow delegate. Again
there was this pressure goading and cajoling her into having a termination. The
NHS webpage above says nothing about this kind of practice.
It makes me wonder if the British government has a covert
agenda that is similar to "Aktion T4". This was a programme that ran
in Germany from
1938 to 1941 in which people in sanatoria who were deemed "incurably
sick" were given what the Nazi regime called Gnadentod. German is a difficult language to translate into
English, but this basically means "mercy killing". Over seventy
thousand people were murdered, mostly children, on official orders from the
governmental "Committee for the Scientific Registering of Serious
Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses". This was done in secret to prevent
mass resistance, but at the same time Joseph Goebbels' propaganda ministry
released messages in the media to try and alter public opinion. The above
poster says: "60,000 Reichsmarks is
what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the people's community
during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too!" Some of
these extermination centres still exist today and are preserved as museums. They
have cellars where people would be locked inside and made to breathe poison
gas... Of course we're far more civilized in modern Britain ;
the programme is refined, clinical and carried out in NHS hospitals by fatherly
doctors and smiling nurses. This is a part of what is known as
"eugenics", see background links below for more detail. Although, as
I said, Down's syndrome is not hereditary; it is an inevitable part of human
reproduction. So why is there this imperative from the authorities to eliminate
people with it? Some readers might not have a problem with the screening
process if you accept that abortion can be ethical. I do not; I am staunchly
pro-life, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/keep-eighth.html;
but even if you disagree with me about abortion in general, I'd be surprised if
you are not also disturbed by the formula of subjecting pregnant mothers, who
are already vulnerable and malleable due to the shock of the test results, to
indoctrination like this. If what we are witnessing here is a covert
extermination agenda, it might be because Down's syndrome people have an effect
on society that is detrimental, from the point of view of the elite. Down's
people can be very amiable and loving. They are doting towards their parents,
other family members and pets etc. As I found out from my discussions on the
bus with Martin, they can be very perceptive and wise. A married couple who are
both Down's recently celebrated their twenty-second wedding anniversary, see: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/down-syndrome-couple-maryanne-tommy-pilling-essex-22-years-marriage-celebrate-a7597146.html.
This Down's man, Robby Hail, is an ace American football player whose career
mirrors Adam Sandler's character in the comedy film The Waterboy: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/water-boy-down-syndrome-touchdown-mother-cancer-robby-heil-video-a7319782.html.
I'm not a fan of the sport, but I still respect his achievement. Many Down's
people have jobs and are highly productive. They go to special colleges and
learn skills. There are even actors and musicians who have Down's syndrome. These
stories warm people's hearts in a very special way. Could Down's youths be
"star children" of the kind Mary Rodwell talks about, see: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/programme-222-podcast-mary-rodwell.html?
Maybe it is this very positive energy that Down's people can bring to the world
that is such a threat to the future society envisaged by the malevolent elite.
They need to weed them out as soon as they pop up. I find the notion that people
with Down's syndrome are somehow unworthy of life utterly obscene. However, that
is the direction the healthcare system appears to be moving in. How long will
it be before the antenatal tests for Down's will be compulsory, as will
termination in the event of a positive test? Down's will just be the start. My
mother had rubella when she was carrying me and the doctor's told her I might
be retarded. Luckily I wasn't, but would I be killed before birth if I had been
conceived in this new eugenic utopia? We need to put a stop to the Down's
syndrome termination agenda now.
See here for
background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/georgia-guidestones-2014.html.
Hey mate nearly crying readin that to tell the truth mate. Very moving and your right as always pal. I mean your downs people are the nicest you could meat. People want perfection these days they see havin kids as like having the latest telly or desiner clothes. As you keep saying mate abortion is a form of murder whoever it is. I reckon your British who are properly from this country should be having a lot more kids to be honest mate. They reckon were gonna be outbreeded from your muslims and are race will totally dye out in about 30 years. So yeah I mean all life is sacred mate. Gods will and all that mate. OK cheers mate. Baz
ReplyDeleteInteresting point you make about Down's Syndrome being like Star Children. My step-brother has Down's. He finds pleasure in the simple things like meal times and watching football or Corrie. One benefit you cannot avoid is that no matter how much the world gets you down he shows you happiness in the routine of things and you have to feel shame at ever getting miserable about trifles.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately you have also reinforced my already poor view of our medical establishment. I have had occasion to be thankful for orthopaedic surgeons but beyond that have never experienced anything coming close to empathy or compassion. I suggest everyone starts looking into alternative treatments before you need them. You might learn something folks.
Cheers
Thanks for your comments, Baz and Ste.
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