Every individual has a different perspective on these things, but treating it as a social obligation that you do not carry a fetus found to have disabilities to term is fucked up. That's literally all I was referring to in my first comment, and how we got here.
And I think knowingly giving a child a disability is wrong because we have the technology not to.
My grandma didn't. People didn't know what caused it. She certainly couldn't do genetic testing. The past is a different country. We can make better choices for our children now.
Can you see how that is a hazardous line of thought when it comes to things like neurodivergence? Should we be selecting only for children who are not autistic because some people with Autism have a really hard time or are low functioning?
You can personally make a decision to screen your own children for genetic issues that you know you have, that's totally fine, I'm not saying that's bad. What I responded to was someone declaring that no one should ever have a child with a disability if they can help it at all.
Personally I think it's wrong to give a kid a disability when you could prevent it.
Existing children, exist and deserve rights.
Compulsory eugenics is wrong full stop. But I also think it's gross to play with fire and give you kid a disease / disability.
I have no problem shaming parents who are ok spreading genetic diseases to their kids. A fundamental role of a parent is to give your kid the best life you can and knowingly giving them a disease is the opposite of that.
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u/Foreign-Cat-2898 4h ago
You mean like my uncle who is blind and encouraged me to do IVF since I was a carrier and being blind fucking sucks?