Some parents choose to have genetic defects in their children:
In other words, some parents had the painful and expensive fertility procedure for the express purpose of having children with a defective gene. It turns out that some mothers and fathers don’t view certain genetic conditions as disabilities but as a way to enter into a rich, shared culture . . .. . . But a desire for children with genetic defects isn’t new. In 2002, for example, The Washington Post Magazine profiled Candace A. McCullough and Sharon M. Duchesneau, a lesbian and deaf couple from Maryland who both attended Gallaudet University and set out to have a deaf child by intentionally soliciting a deaf sperm donor.
“A hearing baby would be a blessing,” Ms. Duchesneau was quoted as saying. “A deaf baby would be a special blessing.”
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All about them.
And the cultural genocide just keeps going. Pox scarred communities are nearly extinct (smallpox), leper communities are sorely hurting for new members in the first world, and their third world chapters are not the social stronghold they once were. Other groups such as sickle cell, cystic fibrosis, and Huntington’s are nervously biding their time knowing that genomic medicine could in a few decades render their disease to the dustbin of history.
Some disease must be preserved at all cost.
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