Thursday, May 10, 2007

Parents beg docs to see their children as people, not diagnoses

Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus

But as prenatal tests become available for a range of other perceived genetic imperfections, they may also be heralding a broader cultural skirmish over where to draw the line between preventing disability and accepting human diversity.


Finally we're starting to see this framed as what it is! It's about whether or not people are welcome when they're different.

One mom sells a t-shirt that says it all: "Love doesn't count chromosomes."

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