Feb 13, 2007, 06:09 PM
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If I am not mistaken, something like this idea was already done by some parents of a handicapped child in I believe the northwest. They had their daughter undergo surgery to stunt her growth so that they could more easily handle her when she grows up.
(Forgive me for bringing up something that is already being discussed halfway down the page....hadn't gotten there yet!)
Also, this seems to be falling along the same lines as the Peter Singer/infanticide debate. He argues for the good of the many over the good of a few. For example, if a child were to be born handicapped and had to suffer through life and the rest of the family would not be happy because it had to take care of the child and the parents were able to give birth to another happy baby that would not be handicapped then the child should be killed.
That was an awful runon sentence but hopefully you got the point.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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