How Can They Know

"His life would be awful," the doctors said,
"He really would be better off dead."
But how are they sure this is really true?
What if the unborn child were you?

A great many people with handicaps
Have to accept that there may be gaps
In what they can do and the choices there are,
And their disability may be a bar
To some things that others regard as the norm,
But this doesn't mean that they cannot perform
A great many tasks, maybe better than most
And often can cope with a difficult post,
Like being the Home Secretary, just for a start,
For a disabled person can still be quite smart.
And very few people, allowed to be born
Find themselves later beginning to mourn
That they were permitted their years on this earth
Instead of being killed at some point before birth.