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Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Police: Teacher’s aide attacks autistic student. A Coconut Creek, Florida, teacher’s aide is under investigation after an autistic student was attacked with a metal chair at school earlier this month, police said. From NBC6-TV in South Florida.

Phila. mom angered over treatment of son with autism. A mother says her son’s school did not properly care for him when it took the rest of his classmates on a field trip and left him in the care of an untrained bus assistant. From CBS3-TV in Philadelphia.

Autistic man labelled ‘mental retard’. The UK’s Boots pharmacy chain apologized to a man after one of its store clerks said he didn’t deserve service because he was a “mental retard.” From the Bath Chronicle.

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A donor egg gives life — and a death sentence

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Rick Karl, left, and Bruce Steiger with their daughter, Krystie. When Karl and Steiger decided to have a child, they hired a surrogate and used a donor egg. Krystie was born with Tay-Sachs. (LA Times photo)

By William Heisel in the Los Angeles Times: A feature about a child born through egg donation and surrogacy who has Tay-Sachs disease. The woman who donated the egg did not know she was a carrier for the disease, and wasn’t tested for it. The agency that arranged the donation has not notified the other couples who received her eggs that their embryos or children may be affected or may be carriers of the disease, which is usually fatal by age five.

The number of American children born from donated eggs grows each year, raching about 6,500 in 2005, while donated sperm accounts for an estimated tens of thousands of births annually.

In the United States, nothing ensures that recipients of donated eggs or sperm are warned about defects later discovered in the donor’s family tree. In contrast to blood donations, no one tracks donors and their products.

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