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Permalink Reply by Bob on April 30, 2009 at 1:49pm

Personally, testing should always be there. Always. Because even if the parents won't abort a child with Downs Syndrome, or Autism, or what have you, having a child with these handicaps is a very expensive endeavor, so knowing ahead of time could help prepare for that.

Also, as far as abortion goes, one has to remember that for all the people who would abort a child with these conditions, there are many who won't. Unless its mandated by the government (which I would find heinous and unjustifiable), then not everyone will do it, and so it won't be eugenics (which, if I remember correctly, has to be a group/national event/behavior. Single incidents wouldn't necessarily count, just like how bunches of murderers acting independently aren't convicted of acts of genocide....

Permalink Reply by Rachel Burke on December 10, 2009 at 12:15am

as a person on the autism spectrum I find this insulting. I do not consider myself flawed or disabled. I have run eight marathons and I was in the magazine Chicago Athlete for being one of the top 10 finishers from Illinois, I have ridden by bike across the Unites States. and I graduated from one of the best public universities in the U.S. not too mention that I have memories of things that happened to me when I was one year old. how many Neurotypicals can say that.

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