saying “look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t!” // Rachel, thirtysomething. Walking in The Way. Profoundly shaped by a reverence for imago dei. Autistic & ADHD. Curious. Writer, sometimes. Pied Piper of stories and fandoms: currently rearranging sand grains with tweezers to spell out "Dune" and levitating a flickering lightbulb over my head labeled "Lockwood & Co" in sharpie; you're also likely to find a fair bit of The Bear, Endeavour, Farscape, Fringe, and Stargate Atlantis around here, among others. // icon by @astersandalliums // AO3: human_dreamer_etcetera
I think that when we tell teenagers that their lives will be over if they don't have the most perfect possible trajectory through the education system, that this is, perhaps, if I may be bold, not good for them,
But I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2021. I've been struggling with my health ever since. I've had knee problems and chronic pain since i was 14 and still struggle with it some today. I may not be able to apply for government disability aid, but i am disabled. I am chronically sick, and have experienced chronic pain.
Many pro-choicers and pro-aborts argue that a mother should be able to kill their child if that child has a disability.
There are so many problems with this argument.
This is a very personal issue I have with this argument. That argument is basically saying that life is not worth living if you are disabled. Does that mean my life is not worth living? Millions of people's lives are not worth living?
Doctors have actually been wrong about disability diagnosis in the womb. This argument means that it is also okay to kill a baby because of the possibility of disability.
Every human being was made in the image of God and has the worth of being an image bearer of God, even if they're disabled. Are you saying that God is wrong for giving disabled people worth by making them in his image?
I suppose my main issue is this: If you wouldn't kill someone outside of the womb for something they cannot control, why would you kill someone inside the womb for something they cannot control.
I always have been pro life. But now, because of the arguments from the pro choice and pro abortion crowd, it now seems a hell of a lot more personal than it used to be.
My life is worth living, even though I am an inconvenience. Life is worth living, even if with it's pain and struggles and heartache and hurt. Every baby that is disabled deserves, has the right, to live as long as possible. As long as the Lord has decreed. That might be 5 days. That might be 5 minutes. That might be 50 years.
We do not get the right to decide whether or not someone else gets to live or die.
just remembered that chani was forced to revive her lover from the dead… like she hated this prophecy her entire life and then she was compelled to make it happen against her will. she lost the paul she loved because he died in that moment, and what came back she now feels personally responsible for even if it wasn’t really her fault. the guilt? over both the fact she ressurected him and the secret relief she has (that she hates) that he’s back. like she probably has guilt that any part of her loves him still, enough to be relieved he’s alive despite the horrific consequences