So if the idea of designer babies isn’t bad enough, now they are trying to intentionally create children with disabilities. In a recent survey, three percent of U.S. clinics that offer embryo screening provide parents with the option to intentionally have a disabled child. Ok, so parents want thier kid to look like them and be able to relate to them, but do they realize what the hell they are doing? As kids, they (the parents) probably had to endure teasing, feeling out of place, ect. And now they want to force that on thier child? I don’t know about you, but if I grew up constantly feeling out of place and being taunted and came to find out that my parents were responsable for all of that, I would be pretty damn pissed. I shouldn’t even have to say this, but (duh) there is nothing wrong with having a disability. People should be proud of who they are. But shouldn’t that go both ways? Shouldn’t parents with disabilities love thier children regardless of if they have a disablilty or not?
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- 1 Trackback on Jan 22nd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
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Oh, for the love of… Look, I have Crouzon Syndrome, which has a 50/50 chance of being carried on to the next generation, and one of the questions I’m rassling with is whether to have kids, or adopt so they don’t have to deal with the dangerous neurosurgery and so forth. The idea of voluntarily wishing Crouzon Syndrome on a kid is crazy. And I say this knowing that if my kid doesn’t have Crouzon Syndrome, we’ll look less alike.
Suggested reading: “1984″ and “The Jesus Incident”.