Margaret Cho and the Retard Baby

Comedian Margaret Cho made news this week when she announced on Fox News that she doesn’t want to have a “retard baby”–you can see the video here.

Now I of course can’t speak for all the retard babies, but as a preemie blind kid born in the fifties, who would have been the subject of abortion prognostications had pre-natal testing existed, I can tell Margaret to shut her pie hole. Kids with disabilities have nobility and beauty.

I’m not without subjectivity. I love nobility and beauty in all it’s forms. Some of my best friends are the very people Ms. Cho would call retard babies. In turn I choose not to call Margaret anything. She’s likely a sad person. History is filled with self-loathing comedians.

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