That's what's so true. We'd be giving up the INDIVIDUAL person who can enhance your life with or without smarts OR looks.
My goodness, we have two family members with Down Syndrome and I can not even imagine them being better people without their extra chromosome.
Yet, as some say, they'd destroy a fetus with that characteristic in the name of helping their child? Who are they helping really?
And what do we mean by advantage? The ability to make money? It might make thigs easier, but its made no one I know happy. I can't argue that my neice and nephew wouldn't prefer to be non Downs, who am I to say, but they are the happiest two individuals I know and they have added more to our lives than anyone else I've met. I can't believe that having the ability some day to remove that extra chromosome before birth would be an advantage. They've been the advantage in my life since they were born.
Life without differences...yuck! We'd be the worse for it in so many ways, not just uninteresting, but unaccepting and unforgiving and unloving.
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My goodness, we have two family members with Down Syndrome and I can not even imagine them being better people without their extra chromosome.
Yet, as some say, they'd destroy a fetus with that characteristic in the name of helping their child? Who are they helping really?
And what do we mean by advantage? The ability to make money? It might make thigs easier, but its made no one I know happy.
I can't argue that my neice and nephew wouldn't prefer to be non Downs, who am I to say, but they are the happiest two individuals I know and they have added more to our lives than anyone else I've met. I can't believe that having the ability some day to remove that extra chromosome before birth would be an advantage. They've been the advantage in my life since they were born.
Life without differences...yuck! We'd be the worse for it in so many ways, not just uninteresting, but unaccepting and unforgiving and unloving.
Just a thought