tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34038338.post1570368796765631689..comments2023-11-02T05:57:56.593-04:00Comments on The Catholic Medical Student: Prenatal Testing- The continuation of the Eugenics movementBrianBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05612598664250439568noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34038338.post-3497612182809802252010-03-31T22:34:24.826-04:002010-03-31T22:34:24.826-04:00Prenatal screening for autism makes even less sens...<a href="http://www.scn.org/autistics/eugenics.html" rel="nofollow">Prenatal screening</a> for autism makes even less senses. Wikipedia identifies some 25 markers for autism. Contrary to Autism Speaks' "Jerry Lewis" style fundraising propaganda, autism is basically a personality type (i.e., difficulty in reading facial body language). A desire for prenatal screening is the direct result of Autism Speaks' fundraising scare tactics and stigmatization -- it runs contrary to valuing each child as a unique individual.<br /><br />In the case of autistics, make that a unique individual with <a href="http://www.scn.org/autistics/realisic.html" rel="nofollow">valuable contributions to society</a>.<br /><br />Prenatal screening for autism only identifies <a href="http://www.scn.org/autistics/prenatal.html" rel="nofollow">the parents' own personality traits</a>. (Autism is 90-98% hereditary and anything detected through prenatal screening would identify 100% herediary traits.) In other words, as a result of stigmatization, parents are made to fear their own personalities manifesting in their offspring!s0_wespeakforourselveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233605821095524093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34038338.post-57588504629952604322010-03-12T15:52:28.154-05:002010-03-12T15:52:28.154-05:00I'm a 1st year medical student at UCI SOM and ...I'm a 1st year medical student at UCI SOM and have been deeply struggling with this in our Genetics course. I have a problem with what the purpose of genetic counseling has come to mean: whether or not a child should be born or aborted. Whenever this topic arises (at almost every discussion), I don't even know how to respond.Jonathan Serratohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10543175841642171072noreply@blogger.com