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Anyone that would do such a thing is a worthless SOB...
This is truly the gold standard of liberal ideology-everyone should suffer equally.
Does the insanity ever end?
Normally I feel bad for deaf people who accidentally get shot by police or run over by trains, but I'd be willing to make an exception for this clown.
I have a better idea.
Let’s not let the parents select, but make it OK for the child, when they reach adulthood, decide if they want to be able to hear.
I wonder how many would choose to be deaf under those circumstances.
I have an extremely low opinion of people who would purposely make their child's life less than it could be just so that child is like them. Just to satisfy THEIR self centered need to have people like them they will happily sacrifice others to fulfill it. Just plain evil.
One has to wonder what these people would say had their parents done that to them.
They deserve to be sued by their child.
/sarc
They are only partaking in this dysgenic conduct because of the explicit promise of government subsidy to compensate for the “non-disability”. More fruit of socialism, and this is just the tip of the iceberg - wait until other victim-non-victim groups capitalize on the same idea.
From the evolutionary standpoint, there is only one policy that can manage to be worse then eugenics, and the modern left found it. We are currently on the threshold of the general acceptance of active dysgenic policies, to be followed by broad promotion. Opposition to the deliberate selection of genetic defects or outright (non-fatal) permanent fetal maiming will eventually be defined as a form of bigotry. By the Axiom of Equality, we should celebrate and welcome all novel defects!
It is revolting to think about, but there may be a method to this insanity. When socialist government programs become akin to a natural resource, it should not inconceivable that some parents may eventually want to maximize the potential subsidies for their offspring (i.e. maximize their access to the “resource”). It would unfold following the same dynamic as between parasite and host, except in this case, the parasitising interaction would be mediated by a social structure (the government).
Madness.
Sick.
Why can’t the deaf parents simply teach their hearing child ASL? (Or whatever the Brits use.) If the child is in a signing instead of speaking household until he/she goes to school, he/she ought to be able to cross over between the deaf community and hearing community seamlessly. This choice is *not* about wanting their child to fit into their community — this is about not wanting the child to have something *they* don’t have. Sick.
You don't use embryo-screening to "create" a child with a serious medical condition. You fertilize a lot of eggs in vitro, allow them to develop enough that genetic testing can be done, and then implant the one(s) which would develop as deaf children and dispose of the ones which could grow up able to hear. I don't know which is worse - the desire for a handicapped child or the cold-bloodedness of their killing of the remaining children.
So.....Following the logic, deaf parents with currently hearing children should be allowed to make their kids deaf with whatever sharp object is at hand.
Here’s an article about this practice (for both deafness and dwarfism) here in the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/health/05essa.html
The Lunatics are indeed running the asylum
The ultimate in narcissism.
Next is screening to make sure your child is gay.
As someone who is HOH (hard of hearing), I’ve been on the outskirts of the deaf community all my life. In elementary school in Illinois, I was allowed to be in a normal classroom but I had to go to another town twice a year to have my hearing tested. (I guess they wanted to see if my totally deaf right ear would spontaneously start working or my totally functioning left ear spontaneously stop working.)
Deaf people see themselves as a culture, just like Koreans, Kenyans, Mexicans, etc. They don’t consider it a defect or a disability to be surgically altered.
A part of me says “More power to them.”
The ones that are deaf who want this may have no understanding of what they are depriving their child of. To deliberately engineer or select an embryo and deprive that child of ever being able to hear or play music, or sing, makes me want to cry.