Posted on 05/25/2013 11:01:19 PM PDT by neverdem
Until recently, if a pregnant woman wanted to determine the genetic health of her baby, she had to endure a series of crude and invasive tests. Early in her second trimester, she would be given a blood test called the triple screen, which measures levels of three hormones in her bloodstream. The results of that test, combined with other factors such as the mother’s age, weight, and ethnicity as well as information gleaned from a high-definition ultrasound, provided a clue to whether her baby was at risk of having a chromosomal disorder (such as Down syndrome) or a neural tube defect (such as spina bifida—shown in the image to the left—or anencephaly). If the fetus was found to have an elevated risk, the woman would be offered a diagnostic test, either chorionic villus sampling (CVS), at 12 to 14 weeks, or amniocentesis, at about 18 weeks.
Both tests are extremely uncomfortable, not to mention risky. Because they require the extraction of fetal cells present in the placental tissue and in the fluid in...
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It’s worth pointing out that prenatal genetic testing can be used for good as well as for ill. By detecting abnormalities early in the pregnancy, testing allows mothers to choose medical facilities with the necessary resources to perform their deliveries. It can also give parents time to prepare psychologically for the birth of a child they may not have expected. But diagnosis and subsequent abortion does not prevent disability. It prevents the birth of a person with a disability.
Some experts go so far as to say that NIPT will “change the way we think about having kids.” Precisely how it does so may ultimately depend on society’s response to a simple question: Is the world really better off without people with disabilities?
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Just try to imagine it - a world without the disabled, e.g. Democrats!
Liberal Democrats already seek abortions. Their children will not exist to inherit the world.
Steven Hawking (ALS). Beethoven (deaf), Van Gogh (mentally ill), John Nash (Nobel laureate mathemation, schizophrenic), Helen Keller (blind and deaf).
>> God doesn’t make mistakes.
Maybe we’re the mistake; the normality that hinders evolution.
Interesting list.
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What good is it to gain the whole world and lose your soul?
There’s more to life than a “perfect” body.
And just who gets to decide what “perfect” is anyway?
This bothers me so very much. I have a child with genetic differences and he is a precious person. What wonderful people the world would miss if people were encouraged to never let them become.
I'm not agreeing with this news item, but births could increase among those who would otherwise "fear disability" in their children.
(Among young and shallow women, abortions could go down among those who want a "perfect" child).
“Liberal Democrats already seek abortions. Their children will not exist to inherit the world.”
Actually, they’re aware of this. That is why they have taken over the school system so liberalism will not die out. The coo coo bird lays its eggs in the nest of songbirds. Eventually, the songbird’s own young die and they die of the strain of raising such a large bird.
Liberals are parasites who kill the host.
The same reasoning that is used to promote killing a disabled person before birth can be used to promote killing a person who acquires a disability (through injury or illness) later in life. And it already is.
“Who decides?” Start by asking, “Who pays?”
There is no reason to believe Beethoven’s deafness had any genetic basis.
It is not known what Van Gogh’s mental illness was caused by, but odds are it was not genetic.
Nobody has a clue at this point in time what causes schizophrenia, but a simple genetic cause is unlikely.
Helen Keller was born perfectly normal and lost her sight and hearing as the result of disease when a toddler.
Most birth defects are not caused by simple genetic defects but by complex interactions between genes and intrauterine development events. Or simply by the intrauterine events alone.
My point is that claims that we will be able to weed out “defective” people are wildly overblown. Most defects are not caused directly by genetic problems.
Downs’ Syndrome is not a good example of where we’re headed. It is one of the few problems that is both common and easy to test for.
> Liberal Democrats already seek abortions. Their children will not exist to inherit the world.
You say that as if it’s a bad thing....lol /s
Yeah but what if they redefine “disability” or “defect”. You know how those pesky progressive Alinskyite libs think. They’ve already managed to redefine evil as good and lies as truth. Nah I’d rather take my chances...
No. It’s just Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ in action.
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