[valkyrieanne]

Let's see - who could we eliminate?

Beethoven - deaf.
John Milton - blind.
Homer - blind.
Helen Keller - blind & deaf.
Stephen Hawking - paralyzed.
Charles Dickens - epilepsy.
Stevie Wonder - blind.
Ray Charles - blind.
Louis Braille - severely impaired vision.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - epilepsy.
James Thurber - severely impaired vision.

I'm sure there are many more.

[Desdemona]

You can add so many to that list. Beethoven, according to some guidelines should have been aborted.

Helen Keller actually was impared as a child, so, that's a different case, sort of, but there's no excuse for suggesting any of these people could not contribute to the world.

[Kevin Curry]

Meanwhile there is no shortage of healthy, fully-sighted, sound-sensitive murderers sitting in prison.

About the only way to get a liberal democrat to hesitate on the issue of abortion is to point out that in China female babies are aborted far more often than male babies. Or suggest to them that if homosxuality is ever found to have a genetic component, babies with a "gay" gene are more likely to be aborted. That forces them to pause.

The're all for child murder. They just don't want to lose future constituents.

In the future, if some liberals have their way, only male "straight" babies will be aborted.

[kidd]

You missed an important one:

Rush Limbaugh - deaf, later in life, due to a genetic defect

Perhaps this "bio-ethecist" is taking a swipe at Rush? Probably not.

However, Rush has demonstrated that his problem is correctable. And America is much better off as a result of this otherwise deaf man.