I appreciated the irony tonight while watching 20/20. No, 'appreciate' is not the correct word. I noticed irony. Or incongruency, rather.
I remember a movie called Twillight of the Golds about a family with a pregnant daughter whose baby tests positive for the 'gay gene'. Abortion is considered and recommended for this pregnancy by her family and husband, and, of course, we the audience come to understand how immoral that idea would be. (And, of course, it would be quite immoral to end an unborn life because it may be carrying the so-called 'gay gene'.)
I was thinking of that movie while watching this 20/20 segment and then watched the next story on this same episode tonight about a man who surprised his parents by being born with no limbs.
I was thinking about the irony (or incongruency) that the popular, pc public wouldn't think twice if this man's parents had known he would be born with this kind of disability and chosen to terminate that pregnency. And how silent that public remains about the fact that the idea of euthenasia for such infants is creeping upon us here the US as it has in Europe. And how that same public would cry out if abortion, etc. were to be considered for pregnancies where the 'gay gene' was detected- as they should cry out, of course. But they remain silent for other 'kinds' of pregnancies being terminated.
Ironic, or incongruent.
