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The Curse of Genetic Testing Multiplied by 3,500

An article I read today announces that they have found a way to test for 3,500 genetic faults, raising concerns (the article says) about the ethical implications.  The story veers headlong into a sustained bout of research that I am currently engaged in, research that began by wanting to answer the basic question “how does  a society come to a point where 70-90% of all children diagnosed with a birth defect are aborted?”  This is born of my own experience, when my wife and I, told that our daughter had spina bifida, were offered the ‘choice’ to ‘terminate.’  (My continue reading...


