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1:34am March 16, 2012

➸ Anne McDonald: The other story from a 'Pillow Angel'

allies-person:

A must-read, though I cannot for the life of me understand how a PWD can be friends with Peter Singer.

Weird. My reply isn’t showing. So in a reblog instead. Regarding Peter Singer.

She believed that it would have been better, had they known she’d grow up in that institution, that they’d have killed her in infancy instead. And genuinely thought it was okay to apply that feeling to all other disabled infants, if it was known for sure they’d live their whole lives in institutions. (Which of course nobody can know. I mean they expected it of her and she got out.)

I can understand “I’d rather have died than lived there,” but I draw the line at making that decision on behalf of other people while they’re babies.

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  1. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from alliecat-person and added:
    Weird. My reply isn’t showing. So in a reblog instead. Regarding Peter Singer. She believed that it would have been...
  2. withasmoothroundstone said: She believed she’d have rather been killed at birth than endure that institution her whole life. And thought it was okay to make that decision for other PWDs.
  3. flutterflyinvasion reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    The part that scared me the most was this: “This may be because Ashley is described as having static encephalopathy, a...
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  6. raisel-the-riveter reblogged this from alliecat-person and added:
    my thoughts exactly
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