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Inherited Disabilities and Having Babies
interesting article from the BBC. What a hard decision to make. I think I'd go the IVF screening route.
Should my hereditary disability stop me having a baby?
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Some disabled groups also argue it harms their chances of equality and understanding. Ian Macrae, editor of the magazine and website Disability Now, says he would never condemn an individual for making their own choice, but he had significant concerns about screening embryos.
"It re-enforces the stereotypical notion that disability per se is a bad thing that should be excluded and that disabled lives are intrinsically less valuable.
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Surely a disability is a bad thing ...otherwise isn't it just a difference?
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart
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