April 15, 2002
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Hear no evil A couple wants uses prenatal selection to ensure they have a deaf child, just like them. Should technology to allow us to choose whatever we want (in this case, deliberately bringing a disabled child into this world), or should the bar be set to only allow us to eliminate abnormality/pathology?
posted by eclectic glamazon (5 comments total)

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Double post.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:09 PM on April 15, 2002


Pardon?
posted by obiwanwasabi at 4:20 PM on April 15, 2002


Ooops. I did search beforehand. The article is a few days old, but I thought it raised a lot of interesting issues. My bad.
posted by eclectic glamazon at 4:22 PM on April 15, 2002


Ahh! I somehow completely missed the first discussion. Looks like a lot of people where dropped on their heads as babies and consider being black a disability.
posted by Keen at 4:54 PM on April 15, 2002


Now now. Some of us were just using it as a rhetorical comparison.
posted by ook at 4:59 PM on April 15, 2002


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