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Down's Symptoms May Be Treatable In the Womb

Posted by timothy on from the hey-kid-drink-this dept.

missb writes "US researchers have found that prenatal treatment for Down syndrome works in mice. This raises the possibility that a pregnant woman who knows her unborn child has Down syndrome might be able to forestall some of the symptoms before giving birth. When fetal mouse pups that had a syndrome similar to Down's were treated with nerve-protecting chemicals, some of the developmental delays that are part of the condition — such as motor and sensory abilities — were removed."

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  1. There's already a treatment... by cthulu_mt · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...it's called an abortion. Don't make retards; even partial ones.

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  2. Suck em out by KasperMeerts · · Score: -1, Troll

    Isn't an abortion a lot cheaper? I mean, with these genetic misfits being somehow a part of society, we could be doing some damage to our gene pool.

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    1. Re:Suck em out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      that's a relief. I always bareback when I fuck downies.

    2. Re:Suck em out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      i agree with you. if animals don't have rights, as recently the majority of slashdotters stated, than i think retards don't have rights either. suck them out with a vacuum and flush them down the toilet. it's better than they deserve.

    3. Re:Suck em out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You mean I've been using this protection all this time for nothing! ARRRHHH!!

  3. Re:It's a deformed child, not a moral trophy by Iamthecheese · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thats right, more people need to die! you go first.

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  4. Re:It's a deformed child, not a moral trophy by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 1, Troll

    You don't like hearing the stark truth, so you call me a troll.

    I've probably thought about this issue far more than the knee-jerkers responding to me. I was born with enough complications that I'd have been dead half a century earlier. I still marvel that not only did I survive, I did so with high intelligence and good physical health. I am my abilities, and if I were destined to be without them, I'd rather my parents had thrown that four pound runt into the dumpster.

    How many of you are willing to live deformed, retarded, and destined for a premature death? Would you trade your lives to give one of these children a normal life? Would you sacrifice the resources spent on you and your children to care for someone else's burden, only because they believe fetuses have souls and killing them is murder?

    To hell with them. No child should be born to suffer, to be anything less than fully human.