tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5354807746005311235.post2750866779066536167..comments2016-03-02T23:51:48.820+13:00Comments on Trans Fried Fluff: New Prenatal Screening Test: Unprecedented Potential to Terminate Biologically Diverse Fetuses!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5354807746005311235.post-90522627809738347062011-01-25T15:29:33.832+13:002011-01-25T15:29:33.832+13:00Thank you for your comments Kathryn.
Abortion law...Thank you for your comments Kathryn.<br /><br />Abortion law lays out the conditions under which an abortion may be legally carried out, in new Zealand.<br /><br />One way or another, most western 'liberal' democracies proscribe abortion on the basis of sex, or for purposes of sex selection.<br /><br />http://www.loc.gov/law/help/sex-selection/newzealand.php<br /><br />It may properly be the decision of a woman to choose whether or not to engage in sexual intercourse, I'm not sure that it is wholly correct to argue, having done so as a willing party that, as you put it, ...it is the prerogative of a mother to decide if she will bear [the]child or not.<br /><br />We know that birth rates for Down syndrom have plummeted in recent years because data is kept on that anueploidy. It is not kept for either Klinefelter or Turner syndromes, though abortion is routinely encouraged for both.<br /><br />(see, Neo Eugenics: The threat to Human Biological Diversity, TFF, Aug. 2010)<br /><br />This is not due to either of XXY or X0 being automatically severely handicapped, but merely because they are aneuploides.<br /><br /><br />This new test is not high tech. Its a simple blood test and computerised assay. It will very quickly become readily available and, in my view, raises fundamental issues, especially around the nature of human life and who is, or is not, fit to live!<br /><br />I agree that education has an important function. I differ from you in that I also a clear role for legislation in deciding those issues.Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04077820398144176634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5354807746005311235.post-47395261451152446242011-01-25T09:55:08.462+13:002011-01-25T09:55:08.462+13:00Perhaps we are forgetting that the vast majority o...Perhaps we are forgetting that the vast majority of the world's population do not have access to this level of technology.<br />IMHO it is the prerogative of a mother to decide if she will bear a child or not. <br />We are talking about a potential problem with inappropriate use of these test results.....just a potential. <br />Surely the answer lies in changing the mindset of parents towards "different" children? <br />While it is wrong to want only "perfect" (whatever that is!) children as a status symbol, raising a severely disabled child is a tough job, and often a lifetime's job. It is a not unreasonable expectation for a parent to have some time to themselves in their old age....is it?<br />I do get the point about potential parents rejecting a fetus because it might be IS or TS, gay or whatever. These are not disabilities.<br />The change needs to be philosophical and/or spiritual more than legal, but it would not be difficult to prevent the worst excesses that this technology makes possible, just as is done with other "fetal selection" techniques.<br />I guess it all depends on whether you believe we only live once, or not..... but that's a matter of religion, and we all know about how that aspect of humanity gets abused from time to time.<br />I can see the anti-abortion people having a field day with this one....Kathrynnoreply@blogger.com