[WOSG]

Okay.

"I should have been clear: if the individual has the means to obtain the intervention necessary, it should not be denied based on their genetic disposition. I would never propose that others pay, either directly or via taxation.
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True, but I dont think anyone is really proposing any such legal limits; adults can have whatever surgery they want to pay for.

I would say this: We really dont have the 'right' to something that nature doesnt doesnt give us. I'd love to have a great singing voice and to run like a gazelle, but nature didnt give it to me. The underlying assumption in the article is that everyone should be able to have everything without limits or 'unfairness', that we should treat abnormal cases as normal. That kind of shallow unrealism annoys me - life has limits.

[Mr. Bird]

I agree with everything you say. I thought the questioner was asking whether such "defective" members of the gene pool should be prohibited from procreating. I responded in the negative. Essentially, procreating is an activity that no institution of man should be able to limit. Now, if He chooses to limit it...