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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Deaf Couples In Great Britain Could Win The Right To Make Their Child Deaf As Well

Because children are just like accessories, right?  Just modify them to match your personality.

Under the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, using embryo-screening deliberately to create a child with a serious medical condition - which officials had said includes being deaf - would be illegal.

Now, however, the Department of Health has agreed to cut from the Bill any reference to deafness as a serious medical condition.

The move could pave the way for the Bill to be amended, when it passes through the Commons later this year, permitting a challenge over whether deafness should be classed as a serious medical condition for the purposes of the bill and allowing parents to pick an embryo, using IVF treatment, that will develop into a deaf child.

The Bill has already angered many MPs and church leaders because it will permit the creation of hybrid embryos, where human DNA is inserted into animal cells for research, and will also remove the requirement for a father in couples undergoing fertility treatment.

Deaf campaigners claim that, although the vast majority of deaf parents would want a child who had normal hearing, some might prefer to create a child who was also deaf and so better able to fit in with their family.

This is where abortion culture has brought us.  If we can kill our unborn children simply because we don’t want them, why can’t we genetically engineer them too?

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The leftie wet dream: Brave New World, where there is no more individual choice, and humans are engineered to fit the social ideology.  Great!  /sarcasm


"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

robert108 on April 13, 2008 at 11:36 am
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That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.  Why the hell would a person want to do that to a child?

Jay on April 13, 2008 at 12:29 pm

That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. Why the hell would a person want to do that to a child?

Political Correctness, or as it’s otherwise known: Leftie fascism.  Nothing is more important than group identity.


"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

robert108 on April 13, 2008 at 12:31 pm
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That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.  Why the hell would a person want to do that to a child?

Who knows.  I mean, why do people get mohawks or pierce their foreheads?

The real question is: Why do people think they can treat their children as though they were accessories to be customized?

And the answer is: Abortion culture.


The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

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Rob on April 13, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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A Clockwork Orange Britain, life under surveillance cameras, without the right of self-defense, governed by the Grand Mufti of Canterbury. Britains, when is enough… enough?

lehav8r on April 13, 2008 at 02:08 pm

Deaf campaigners claim that, although the vast majority of deaf parents would want a child who had normal hearing, some might prefer to create a child who was also deaf and so better able to fit in with their family.

That’s pretty disgusting to think that people would believe that a child they brought into this world and raised wouldn’t fit in with them because they had one difference.  If you can’t raise a child and accept them for who they are, you just shouldn’t be having them.

k_lunch on April 13, 2008 at 02:18 pm

If your child is born deaf, that’s great. Love your child despite their handicaps. But don’t purposefully make your child deaf to suit your own selfish ends. How disgusting.

No different than parents who deliberately make their child sick.

Kenny on April 13, 2008 at 02:38 pm

robert108 is completely right in his Brave New World comment.  These parents are extremely selfish.  They obviously do not the best interest of the child in mind.  They are only concerned with what will make it easier for them.

I thought parents loved their children unconditionally and that they wanted the very best for their children.  I konw my parents have always hoped that I will be even better off than they are.  For a couple to hope that their child is deaf is pathetic and should make them unfit to be parents.



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dougee on April 13, 2008 at 04:52 pm
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A couple of things:

One, the whole issue has been misrepresented by the media, and hence the uninformed commentary from people. Go to http://www.stopeugenics.org, for what Deaf people actually think and what they are actually responding to, before passing judgement!

Two, if parents loved their children unconditionally, then they should be able to deal with having a Deaf child, without the need for eradicating the so called Deaf gene.

Three, do not pass judgement on Deafness, unless you actually know what it is and how it affects ones life.

Lastly, the very fact that parents would choose to not have a baby with the deaf gene, flies in the face of the idea of conditional love!

Tony Nicholas on April 13, 2008 at 06:46 pm

The parents would deprive their child of the beauty of music.

Reason alone to outlaw this odious practice.

Ken McCracken on April 13, 2008 at 06:59 pm

I am all for genetic engineering.

I support freaks.

likwidshoe on April 13, 2008 at 11:42 pm
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Yeah, right, the deprivation of music explains an awful lot! Thanx I needed that educatory highlight!

Tony Nicholas on April 14, 2008 at 05:12 am

But they can not make their children Christian Scientists, Christians, Catholics or any other religion.


Communism is evil

Chief RZ on April 14, 2008 at 05:33 am
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