http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/20/sequenom-testing-5054/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/20/sequenom-testing-5054/comment-page-1/#comment-3241 abby Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:16:20 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=5054#comment-3241 The only brighter side of this scary notion is that perhaps, if this sort of testing is expanded, more people will look at it with increased scrutiny. It is "easy" to push one group of people aside, but a lot more people are touched by autism and "other conditions" than by Down syndrome, so perhaps it will become harder to ignore the ethical implications of this sort of testing. The only brighter side of this scary notion is that perhaps, if this sort of testing is expanded, more people will look at it with increased scrutiny. It is “easy” to push one group of people aside, but a lot more people are touched by autism and “other conditions” than by Down syndrome, so perhaps it will become harder to ignore the ethical implications of this sort of testing.

]]> http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/20/sequenom-testing-5054/comment-page-1/#comment-3239 amymdmom Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:48:58 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=5054#comment-3239 This is truly scary....designer babies for all. I wish that Harry and Charles of Sequenom, Inc. could just spend a little bit of time with some of the "birth defects" that they wish to profit off the extinction of....Perhaps they could develop a prenatal test to detect orphans and widows as well. This is truly scary….designer babies for all. I wish that Harry and Charles of Sequenom, Inc. could just spend a little bit of time with some of the “birth defects” that they wish to profit off the extinction of….Perhaps they could develop a prenatal test to detect orphans and widows as well.

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