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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
So I guess the answer to your question is: as often as parents choose to know.
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Pretty well. Women can have abortions simply because they didn't want the pregnancy.
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Originally Posted by bizaro86
If you're choosing to have selective abortion by genetics, I think it's fair to ask about things that might not be possible right now. It's not like we've reached the limit of genetic testing, and no new tests will be developed.
And it certainly could become a slippery slope. Does 100% chance of downs become 80% chance of scitzophrenia become a 50% chance of a congenital heart defect become a 30% chance of chronic depression become a 10% chance of massive obesity?
Where do you draw the line there?
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Like I said, "I don't want to be pregnant" is a good enough reason to have an abortion as it stands right now, so none of that actually matters.
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Originally Posted by bizaro86
If your unborn child had a severe defect and the mother (exercising her right to reproductive choice) wanted to keep it, would you support that decision and stick around to raise that child?
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Of course I would. What kind of question is that?