traciedantoni
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I'm not sure if that was directed to me or not. If it was, my point about "killing off your child" wasn't a quip with regards to abortion - see the other contentious topic going on right now for my views there. When I said "killing off your child" I was talking about actually killing a living child, not an embryo or fetus. Which is a thing I am not advocating.
So, wait, what? You do support prenatal testing and allowing for selection once the zygote has been created/implanted, you just don't support selection of specific traits? I thought you were saying the exact opposite, that you wouldn't have supported any form of prenatal testing or selection.
What I'm saying is that if someone chooses prenatal testing to see if there are fatal defects and then chooses to terminate, I don't have a problem with that. If someone picks or chooses an embryo based on deaf or hearing or any other trait then I think it's BS. If someone has prenatal testing and the baby is missing a limb and chooses to terminate I think that's BS.
I never said I didn't support prenatal testing once a pregnancy has happened. I just said that I didn't choose to have it when I was pregnant with my son. And even if I had done it, it probably wouldn't have revealed that anything was wrong with him. However, if I did and it did reveal that he was not going to be able to survive on his own without life support, I would have terminated the pregnancy because what's the point of letting him continue to grow only to die once he was born.
Make sense? If not then I'll just shut up and leave this thread alone.