That's like parents without disabilities screening their embryos to have children without disabilities. You know it is. In some way I hope I'm making sense....
The only time you will find real light is when you're searching in the dark..
That is totally wrong. People who want to do that are not fit to be parents. A loving parent would want the best for their child regardless of their disabilities so creating a disabled child just to suit you is wrong and cruel. Think of all the problems the child will have, at school and then in later life. and how will they feel when they know their parents chose for them to have all the problems, and that they could have been prevented.
designer babies are wrong, even if it is to prevent disabilities. if you want a child you would love it no matter what.
If we start choosing traits for our babies we will have crossed a line and we'll never turn back. It's ridiculus that you would choose for your child to be at a disadvantage.
I love Alcohol Induced Altruism(Laura) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence - Doug McLeod Those who believe in absurdities will commit atrocities - Voltaire
the only time it is necessary, is if its to take out some life threatning illness, doing it because you want your child blonde hair blue eyed is wrong, seriously wrong.
how would you feel if your parents picked how you looked?
"Its not how long a star shines, what is remembered is the brightness of the light"
I would be annoyed they gave me boring brown hair and brown eyes!
Nah in all seriousness. Love your child no matter what. Beyond actually screening to make sure no serious health problems there is no need.
they should love their child born either healthy or with a disability, you can not pick and choose!
Let me be the one you call
If you jump i'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn YOU'RE NOT ALONE
I fail to see how a desire to want the best for your child by reducing it's risk later in life is completely and unquestionably 'wrong.' As for designer disabled babies, ethics aside, if they wish to do that then there would have to be a law banning them from government support. I could select a blind child and social security would take care of it for as long as it lived. If society's paying for it, I may as well spawn a few dozen blind or deaf children.
Personally the thought that people with lethal peanut allergies are allowed to breed scares me, let alone people actually selecting disabled traits to throw into the gene pool.
In a way I guess I can understand.
It reminds me of an episode of Scrubs where a deaf Dad had a chance to make his deaf son able to hear and firstly he refused the treatment because he felt it was the only connection they had.
I guess it would make the parents feel less like 'freaks' (I'm not saying they're freaks, obviously. But that's how people who are different can sometimes feel) It keeps the children close to them and makes them feel more connected.
I'm just guessing though, but I think that's most likely what it is. I wouldn't think any of them would do it maliciously.
I can understand why it's done but I guess I have to agree, things like this really shouldn't be done unless it's a real serious need for it, like they need a girl for a sick brother because her somethings are better. You know what I mean I hope?
*sighs*
Sometimes I feel like a freak (yes I'm deaf myself) heh. Just people treat you so horribly sometimes. See when I have children myself (should I ever do), I will love them even if they have a thousand disabilities (ott I know).
It sounds strange, but deaf parents sometimes find it hard to have hearing children. When the communication systems of the parents and children are different it can seriously disrupt the child's development. But of course, I think that nature should have the final say on the child that people have.
I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.
Don't try to calm the storm, calm yourself, the storm will pass.
But if you can 'breed' a child to have no disabilities, why should you not be able to breed them to have a disability, if you thought it was a good thing or whatever..? Just because society says that it's "best" to have no disabilities, who says that's right?
