Prognosis[edit]
The prognosis for cystic fibrosis has improved due to earlier diagnosis through screening, better treatment and access to health care. In 1959, the median age of survival of children with cystic fibrosis in the United States was six months.[93] In 2010, survival is estimated to be 37 years for women and 40 for men.[4] In Canada, median survival increased from 24 years in 1982 to 47.7 in 2007.[94]
Of those with cystic fibrosis who are more than 18 years old as of 2009, 92% had graduated from high school, 67% had at least some college education, 15% were disabled and 9% were unemployed, 56% were single and 39% were married or living with a partner.[95] In Russia the overall median age of patients is 25, which is caused by the absence or high cost of medication and the fact that lung transplantation is not performed.[96]
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We can all die at any time. Vast improvements have been made in the treatment and quality of life of those with CF. Those improvements might never have been made if we had simply given up and sterilized those who carry the gene.
“Those improvements might never have been made if we had simply given up and sterilized those who carry the gene.”
I really must insert into this thread an observation. Carry_Okie and others, including myself, are rising the issue that with modern medical testing, a catastrophic genetic disease can usually be spotted long before birth.
There is another, and closely related issue, specifically that parents who deliberately birth children with genetic diseases usually ask, make that demand, that others pay for their child’s medical bills.
Why should I be billed for the raising of a child I neither fathered nor wanted? I
Is not such a tax in the same realm of oppression as taxing me for another religion which I do not believe in?
Had we not allowed government into medical charity, this issue would not exist.
Looks like the Founders were correct when they severely limited government.