Deaf demand right to designer deaf children

The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | December 23, 2007 | Sarah-Kate Templeton

[supremedoctrine]

What can one say to this except “The deaf are leading the deaf” ?

[Krankor]

The only other group that tries to propagate
its disability- eunuchs.

[Sue Perkick]

I had a sister who was deaf, so I encountered the the deaf population at its best & worst. Most are very kind normal people. But some of them are not only arrogant but insane as well. To them deafness is not a disability but a self imposed sign of superiority. They look down on people who can hear & ostracize those who have any operation/implant that enables them to hear. Strange bunch.

[Sue Perkick]

Exactly!

[Sue Perkick]

Good visual. Takes me back. Sadly it’s probably not all that far fetched.

[MinorityRepublican]

In some elementary schools in towns with a fairly large deaf population, they teach basic sign language including fingerspelling the alphabet. I think it’s something that everyone can benefit.

[hunter112]

I only know one piece of sign language, and I lift it in their direction. My first ex-wife was legally blind, and to a lesser extent, there is some “blind pride” crap out there, too. But I do concur, with my experiences with the deaf, they can be pig-headed. I guess blind people need readers too much to tick off too many sighted people.

[aruanan]

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 (RNID).

Freakin pervs.

[expatpat]

I agree it’s pretty weird, but I’m not sure it’s a moral issue.
It’s not as if they are proposing to deafen a child with good hearing (though some posters seem to believe that).

[wallcrawlr]

Deaf/Hard of Hearing ping list
with interests in health and society

[MountainFlower]

shoulda seen it coming! amazing the depravity of man and the direction it takes.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

I am adding a link.

Here is a similar case of this occurring in the US.

Couple 'choose' to have deaf baby

[FreedomCalls]

Thanks.

[Mila]

Thank you so much for giving me an “up close and personal” perspective on this issue. The points that you make are valid ones and I realize that as a hearing person I am only seeing the situation through my own life experiences. You have given me something to really think about and I appreciate it.

[metesky]

The article says they’re deaf and now we know that they’re dumb too.

[Zero Sum]

It’s not as if they are proposing to deafen a child with good hearing (though some posters seem to believe that).

No, it's that they are trying to tailor-make a child to suit their own "needs". This is a perverted denial of the intrinsic value of human life, reducing it to a mere commodity that is manufactured specifically to suit the tastes of the patron. Hence the term "designer babies". It's a human child, not a bleeding wardrobe accessory!

[merry10]

It’s not the deafness ITSELF that is a horrible thing...and parents who have deaf children should be shown and should interact with kids who are NOT deaf but severely autistic, emotionally disturbed, CP, etc. There are so many life altering conditions, that I myself do not see deafness as a functional handicap. I just don’t. It’s a disability in one sense...that the person can’t hear. But there are so many deaf people, Minority Republican and dmw among them, who hold down full time positions. Many deaf work in the postal service or in IT related fields.

My 15 year old is in a school for the deaf, which I chose so that when she graduates, she will go directly into a trade or into a JC...but the school was chosen for its success rate with graduates. In her mainstream school, she read at a lower grade level and was at the lower grade level in math. At the specialized school - her reading is now AT grade level as is the math. I don’t believe in inclusion in many cases; deafness is one of those.

[merry10]

And with that comment, you show your ignorance of all deaf people.

[metesky]

What?

[merry10]

I don’t even know what to say about some of the mis informed comments I read here on FR. I know none of us would advocate for genetically engineering a disability...at the same time, we should have the power and ability to choose if we want to change our own child’s make up to make them hearing. (I chose to, and now she is choosing ASL for her future...). We do the best we can, but in the end, the communication choice is up to them.

MERRY CHRISTMAS