Given a post that is a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation and an associated claim about its type, verify if the claim is true or not. The claim asks if the posts are historical or hypothetical. The posts are "HISTORICAL" when the author has already done something and they are "HYPOTHETICAL" when the author is considering doing something in the future. Say 'yes' if the claim is true otherwise say 'no'

CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : Neurodegenerative diseases are nearly impossible to cure,especially if patient and their relatives are economically in medium or lower class.

For example,one dose of SPINRAZA-medicine for SMA patients- contains literally 7-8 drop of cure,and it costs estimatedly 140.000$.

I live in Turkey and for me it means a drop of this costs 100.000 lira.There are 3000 patients estimated in Turkey and if I collected right information,a patient needs 4-5 dose and after that only 3 times a year for all his/her life.

Completing the estimated math and adding it to 3000 people,because all patients deserve curing,it estimatedly adds up to 20 BILLION liras without remainders.

Turkey spent 25 billion-again,without remainders- to medicine.ALL the medicine in whole country.

This is just basic numbers for JUST treating SMA patients.I didn’t even calculate their respiratory and alike machines,accomodation,application of medicine and such.

In my defense it might be more or less expensive,but it won’t go up or down for 10 billion or something.

These kind of disease can be spotted in amniosynthesis(or amniocentesis) or different scans of genome.I know it can harm,even kill the baby,and i know i can’t understand what that means but if you spend not even 20 billion on uprading tech for genome scanning it definetely WOULD make difference.

I am not a cruel person.I always thought abortion saves both parents and children.I spent 2 years with joy and sadness with cerebral palsy patients and I befriended a lot.I lost 2 friends in this 2 year and i know what they live and how they live.I even had a friend that said “I wish I was aborted.My mom and dad had genetic predispositions and they never thought about it.” He died 3 years ago.

In conclusion,by spending on research and development and planning parenthood i believe there would be much difference.Therefore,i dont want their curing.






no