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#556807 added December 23, 2007 at 7:06pm
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Say "WHAT" Again!
What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?
-Jules


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3087367.ece

DEAF parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf child over one that has all its senses intact, according to the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People...

Say what?

More:
In America a deaf couple deliberately created a baby with hearing difficulties by choosing a sperm donor with generations of deafness in his family.

WHAT??!

How about we stop breeding for stupid, huh? I mean, I know some people would love to select undesirable traits OUT of their offspring - the definition of "undesirable" being a key issue that I'm not going to touch - but what kind of parent purposely does something to their kid that gives them a disadvantage in life? Of course, lots of deaf people do just fine in life, and that's not the issue; the issue is where does it stop? Should retarded people (and yes, I'm using the R word) deliberately have Down's kids so they can all be retarded together? Come on!

I weep for the world.

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