[geopyg]

"He believes couples who choose to have babies even when there are problems are "misguided" and the more we can screen out disability, pain and suffering the better."

I wonder if I would've made the cutoff. I was born with a severe club foot. The doctors did well - although one of the doctors told my dad it was a miracle. I lettered in cross-country running and skiing in high school. My right leg is still skinnier than the left from wearing a cast my first 18 months!

Anyway - as soon as people start talking abortion for "good" reasons, I wonder where you draw the line? And which side I would have been on?

[MEG33]

Our family has a similar experience.We would have missed a wonderful member of the family plus his beautiful children had he not been born.

[sweetliberty]

"I wonder if I would've made the cutoff. I was born with a severe club foot."

Yeah, I wondered the same thing. I was born with a heart murmur which required yearly visits to the medical center for tests when I was growing up, one which I was supposed to have outgrown by age 15. I never did outgrow it, but have never had a minute's trouble because of it and I'm a grandmother now. I have, so far, had a perfectly normal life.....well, as normal as an individual with FReeper tendencies is likely to have anyway.

[Marie]

I know how you feel. When I was born, my mother was told that I was severely brain damaged and I'd never be more than a veg. They recommended that she place me in an institution. They were wrong.

Drs give up too easily.