Should eugenics become a “fundamental human right”?

BioEdge ^ | 5/5/12 | Michael Cook

[lymelady]

I have a hard time feeling sympathy for parents who abort based on a positive test result and then find out it was a false positive. I had someone tell me “that must be the saddest thing ever,” and she’s right; she’s right because the parents have to face what they did. They have to face the fact that they killed their child who they loved up until they found out about a genetic defect. If you can’t love your child because she’s not going to be as low-maintenance as you would like her to be, you should consider not being a parent at all.

[lymelady]

Sorry, I made it sound like I’m talking about your friend, she clearly was ready to love her baby despite the Downs diagnosis. It just reminded me of parents who make a different choice and regret it because of the test being wrong.

[dfwgator]

I was horrified to find out that the UK is letting people abort children for defects as minor a single clubbed foot,

The irony is that Joe Goebbels could have been euthanized according to the Nazis eugenics policies because of his clubbed foot.