Sigh, Again......just fucking sigh.

So I'm taking a seminar on Disability in America, I dunno. I thought it would be good for a health psychologist to have some fucking familiarity with it all. And the first couple of nights I was getting a weird vibe from the professor, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

The readings for this week were on eugenics and nazis and that sort of thing. And the conversation wound its way around this and that, and finally, after listening to a bunch of 20-somethings make a bunch of self-righteous statements about prenatal genetic testing, I said, wait a minute. Back up. Are you saying that someone that terminates a pregnancy due to massive congenital birth defects or genetic problems is practicing eugenics?

To which they all nodded their heads in unison.

You're comparing them to Nazis?

More agreement.

You're comparing a mother who has to terminate her pregnancy due to these genetic defects to the political policy that exterminated jews, gays, the disabled, and pretty much most of Poland.

At which point the professor, smugly I might add, said well there's a big difference between having an abortion because you're just not ready for a child at that point in your life and having one just because you don't want that kind of kid.

At which point I decided to drop the class.

I'm sorry, but do people not even GET what sort of terrible and awful and painful decision that is? Do they really think it's like deciding that you don't want Jamocha Almond Fudge because you just don't want that kind of ice cream? Do they really fucking think that it's a decision made out of convenience, with an eye towards what's going to be easier? Oh gee, I think I'll have an abortion this morning and later on, we can stop by Ikea and return the crib - maybe pick up a new duvet cover while we're there!

Everbody's got their little agenda, don't they? I fucking hate people. I really fucking hate people sometimes.