Author Pearl S Buck said, in a book, of her child who was born mentally handicapped as a result of the metabolic condition called PKU:
“[by] this most sorrowful way I was compelled to tread, I learned respect and reverence for every human mind. It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights. None is to be considered less, as a human being, than any other, and each must be given his place and a safety in the world. I might never have learned this in any other way. I might’ve gone on in the arrogance of my own intolerance for those less able than myself. My child taught me humanity.”
Pearl S Buck, The Child Who Never Grew, 2nd edition (Bethesda, Md: Woodbine House, 1992) 70
Buck’s attitude and her love for her child standing contrast to the self-centeredness and misguided “compassion” of mothers who abort their handicapped children.
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