[Marie]

This is so strange to me. Both of my daughter's feet were deformed and it never crossed my mind to think of it as a handicap. It was more of a nuisance thing. Getting her the corrective surgery was the equivalent of getting braces. Just one more thing to deal with. I guess, in my mind, if it can be fixed, it's not a handicap.

Then again, I don't see my son's diabetes as a handicap. It's a pain in the butt and I'm glad that there are treatments. It's just another thing life throws at you. For me, examples of *handicap* would be severe brain damage or a massive spinal cord injury. Loosing *both* legs or arms. Something that screws up your basic life functions. A cleft palate in an otherwise healthy child? Please. That's like a kid who needs braces. Diabetes? A step more serious than glasses. Still manageable.

[CGTRWK]

I have trouble believing the involved doctors or mothers in England would consider these real handicaps either. It reads to me like the mothers decided 6 months in that they didn’t want a child after all, and found NARAL type doctors who would game the law for them.