Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt)
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Posted by Marie on 22:51:21 2006/07/11
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Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt) posted by Sarah
~snip~What's hopeless is people who think that it's ok to continue to pollute the gene pool with horrible diseases like lupus and Type 1 running in the family.~snip~
And another prejudice is born. Wonderful.
We're never going to get rid of any of these diseases by breeding them out. There will always be the whole "sh*t happens" factor to take into consideration. Not to mention triggers and trigger combinations that nobody can figure out.
People who have disease who have children are far from hopeless. They are hopeful.
People who choose not to have children for *whatever* reason have my blessing and support.
But don't say that by having children you're contributing to the situation. Many of us have no clue that we even have a genetic issue. (My neighbor had no history of auto immune disease and two of her children [fathered by two different fathers with clean family histories as well] ended up becoming diabetics.)
Again, the solution to the problem is to light a fire under the butts of labs, researchers, the FDA, and anyone else we can think of and destroy the friggin' monster once and for all.
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