- Mar 15, 2003
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Read an article in Time magazine about a new test that allows for even earlier screening for down syndrome. Currently, the test can only be taken in the 2nd trimester, the new test can be taken far earlier. A part of the article hinted at something that made me a bit sad, not as a cross hugger.... It just troubled me. 80-90% of couples faced with a positive result for D.S. currently abort the baby. I found that troubling not because of my views on abortion (pro-choice, if you must know), but because of what it says about our society's preference to take the easy way out than to deal with adversity.
I mean, if I was put in the same situation I?d probably be part of that statistic, and I would be cold to call that decision ?easy.? I?m empathetic to the difficulties of being in that situation, I just wonder if this is the start of something much worse. I always had a theory that abortions would sky rocket once we had more thorough DNA screenings. ?Your child is destined to have an I.Q. of less than 80.? ?Your child is predetermined to be fat.? ?Your child is predetermined to be gay.? That?s always troubled me and this article drove that point home. Eventually, when we have the technology, would we not use it to make everyone?s life ?easier,? the way people in india abort female fetuses because their lives would be "harder" if the little girl was born?
I mean, if I was put in the same situation I?d probably be part of that statistic, and I would be cold to call that decision ?easy.? I?m empathetic to the difficulties of being in that situation, I just wonder if this is the start of something much worse. I always had a theory that abortions would sky rocket once we had more thorough DNA screenings. ?Your child is destined to have an I.Q. of less than 80.? ?Your child is predetermined to be fat.? ?Your child is predetermined to be gay.? That?s always troubled me and this article drove that point home. Eventually, when we have the technology, would we not use it to make everyone?s life ?easier,? the way people in india abort female fetuses because their lives would be "harder" if the little girl was born?