[A'elian' nation]

“Its interesting that people without Downs Syndrome are concerned about “preserving the culture””

I found that more than curious too - like Down Syndrome is a species in need of preserving.

I’d like to hear Sarah Palin’s take on this discovery.

[silverleaf]

and Rick Santorum’s

[Mrs. Don-o]

You're probably heard the true story about the two deaf lesbians who decided to advertise for a sperm vendor with a genetic deafness condition, in hopes one of them could conceive a baby who would be hearing-disabled like them, and therefore a part of their "deaf culture."

This ideology, as I understand it, is very much nurtured in Gaulladet College, which has promoted the idea of deaf people being analogous to an ethnic minority, preserving and developing their own distinctive world.

The idea of "preserving the Down Syndome culture" is similar. And similarly wrong-headed. It comes from the "dictatorship of relativism" which deems it bigotry for anything to be termed "normal" or "abnormal," "natural" or "unnatural."

I was recently reprimanded when I called homosexuality abnormal. I was told I could say "sexual minority," but even "atypical" was thought to be too stigmatizing.

How can you do medicine --- which is supposed to cure, heal, repair, strengthen --- when you can't define what "healthy" is?