[LAF] Parent rights - was - [Fwd: [smygo] UK: Government pushes eugenic embryology bill; media lies]

[EDMUND MCARTHUR]

I strongly agree with what you say about parents "rights" thats why I    don't  believe they should have any
  
 I don't  think they should be able to choose a deaf child over a hearing child but I see nothing wrong if you go for a scan and find the child will be deaf   and then have an abortion-  you may do it for selfish reasons but objectively you are saving the yet unborn from 
 suffering 
 
 If you happen to be deaf for whatever medical reason you should have access to free state of the art technology as available regardless of cost
 
 But it is daft to argue for" deaf rights "  meaning the right for the deaf to be born in the future. ( No one has a right to be born) . The gay analogy does not wash

 because gay people only suffer because of the action s of others 
 and there is no cure for being gay nor should anyone suggest they ought to be
 
 Non of this leaves me any wiser  about the Bill itself 
 but I am infavour of cloning organs so if I need a transplant I don't have to hope for someone who is more healthy than me to die
 or worry if the doctors allowed some one with a  50:50
 chance of survival to die so they could get the organs
 Edmund 

Volodya <Volodya at WhenGendarmeSleeps.org> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> if they are opposing measures that would ensure that no child would be
> born with particular disabilities    they are wrong   this ought to happen  

I think that the argument is that in some bill (don't know the name either)
parents will be allowed to preffer a hearing child over the deaf child to be
kept, while at the same time if the parents will want to keep the deaf baby and
get rid of the hearing one, they will be stopped.

> < Nothing wrong  if you  eliminate deafness by preventing people from
> being born  deaf or with a gene that means they will go deaf .
>  
> People who  oppose this are just in favor of suffering

Their argument (not mine) seems to be that in today's world homosexuals also
suffer due to being gay/lesbian.

> On the other hand the idea of designer babies where potential parents
> can choose babies from a cataloger is wrong -  I dint believe parents
> should have Any
> rights  anyway  and fertility treatment should not be funded by the NHS
> if people cannot have child they should accept    as a fact of nature
> and get on with their lives. 

My take is slightly different, i believe that parent "rights" in today's society
seems to be trumping all other people's freedoms, for example freedoms of their
children (in this case unborn children). To me the whole idea of parents chosing
who "their" children are, what they study, what religion they become, etc is
quite horrific.

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