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NCDem777

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12. Would you ask LGBT people to "walk a mile in their shoes"

Reply to TeeYiYi (Reply #11)

Fri Jan 5, 2018, 05:40 PM

Jan 2018

if a parent killed their child for being LGBT?

Disability rights advocates such as myself understand that life with disabled kids is hard. That's why we fight hard for support services, unlike most special needs parents who pay lipservice to the concept before turning around, voting GOP and moaning about cuts.

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Forgive mom who killed disabled child? [View all] NCDem777 Sep 2017 OP

I agree that she should not be paroled for killing her child, but I disagree Squinch Sep 2017 #1

She had options NCDem777 Sep 2017 #5

Where does it say he was "profundely disabled" The link only says he had a disability lunamagica Sep 2017 #6

I'm okay with the parole (which is not in question at this point) janterry Sep 2017 #2

I seriously doubt that she got any preferential treatment or that anyone Arkansas Granny Sep 2017 #3

I'm not sure parole comes into this matt819 Sep 2017 #4

my uncle had a daughter w/ severe CP. his wife was a nurse. it was hard for the TWO of them. pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #7

The baby's father and grandmother had custody of him and raised him for four years. Then lunamagica Sep 2017 #8

maybe she had no idea til after. shit happens. pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #9

She could have returned him to the people who loved him lunamagica Sep 2017 #10

It's always easy to judge... TeeYiYi Jan 2018 #11

Would you ask LGBT people to "walk a mile in their shoes" NCDem777 Jan 2018 #12