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Oh, how this disgusts me. Yet again, the government attempting to take the place of the Creator. How dare some random person arbitrarily point at me and tell me how I can and cannot decide to have my very own child? How dare -anyone- suggest that my child would be "preferably" -selected- as a nice and normal hearing child?
Genetic testing terrifies me- I am, by common definition, severely and multiply disabled. One day, I'm sure, people like me will be considered mere burden upon society and thrown away on the sole fact that we aren't quite "normal." Where do we draw the line? Should we prohibit ashkenazi jews from having children for fear of cystic fibrosis, tay sachs, familial deafness? How about finnish people and usher syndrome? Where do we draw the line- where does the government get off telling us what kinds of children we can have and love?
It's so very sad.
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"She thinks... she can make people do what she wants or needs, what is right, by the sheer force of her own talent, not by forcing them... she can teach them and persuade them... that they'll catch it from her. This is still faith in their rationality, in the omnipotence of reason. The mistake? Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them."
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