Procreation of the hereditarily disabled (1 Viewer)

[rant]

Hereditary (either totally debilitating or mortal) diseases are difficult burdens to bear. If you had a condition, say cystic fibrosis or huntington's disease, that had a high chance of passing on genetically to your children or grand-children, would you subject, nay, sentence your offspring to that kind of existence?

Should procreation between people with major hereditary diseases (that is, autosomal dominant diseases, where only one parent with the condition is necessary to affect a child, and there is a 50% chance a child will inherit the gene) be, if not regulated, frowned upon by society?

Discuss.

 

[Kwayera]

Should procreation between people with major hereditary diseases (that is, autosomal dominant diseases, where only one parent with the condition is necessary to affect a child, and there is a 50% chance a child will inherit the gene) be, if not regulated, frowned upon by society?

Yes.

 

[rant]

I wanted a poll

answer yes or no or undecided in your posts plz

EDIT: somebody seriously needs to fix this 'two minutes after post' polling rule

 

[Iron]

I dont think so. What could be a greater expression of our freedom and love than the creation of a family? The couple should obviously consider the issue extensively, but it's outrageous to suggest that they should be denied that decision

 

[forks]

Maybe.

it would be impossible to regulate tho. if eventually there was a whole stigma built around it and procreation stopped, would heriditary diseases be 'killed off'?

 

[rant]

The couple should obviously consider the issue extensively, but it's outrageous to suggest that they should be denied that decision

i agree with you, freedom should be the primary concern here. i'm still not sold though, what about the freedom of the eventual child to live a fulfilled healthy life?

@forks: interesting idea. abstinence FOR THE GREATER GOOD. afaik that wont work with herditary diseases (citation needed?)

 

[Iron]

The focus in this case should be cure, not prevention imo

 

[Kwayera]

Maybe.

it would be impossible to regulate tho. if eventually there was a whole stigma built around it and procreation stopped, would heriditary diseases be 'killed off'?

Eventually, yes.

 

[banco55]

Don't worry there will be a genetic test for all of those kinds of conditions soon and we'll just kill them in the womb like we do with down's syndrome babies.

 

[rant]

Don't worry there will be a genetic test for all of those kinds of conditions soon and we'll just kill them in the womb like we do with down's syndrome babies.

yes, we know this is possible. the issue, though, is whether people who know that they will birth affected babies should be encouraged to go through with it anyway.

 

[greekgun]

Im pretty sure i read somewhere that some people had the choice to pick and replace genes with others to change their offspring's eye colour, hair colour etc. I wonder if this could b done to change the gene of an offspring which has a fatal disease to one which doesnt. Ill try and find wat i read off google or something.

 

[iamsickofyear12]

Should procreation between people with major hereditary diseases (that is, autosomal dominant diseases, where only one parent with the condition is necessary to affect a child, and there is a 50% chance a child will inherit the gene) be, if not regulated, frowned upon by society?

Yes.

 

[axlenatore]

im pro choice

 

[Scissors]

i don't think they should be allowed to reproduce.

 

[axlenatore]

bring back fathers

 

[loquasagacious]

I don't think it should be regulated (freedoms and all that) but it should be frowned on.

 

[hermand]

you can't deny choice, because then it becomes a dictatorship. however, genetic engineering will soon be able to combat this will it not? i suppose it would be in the nearish future, but until then, i think it should be frowned upon. it isn't fair on the [potential] kid.

 

[4lettersdown]

Even if both parents have faulty genes, they are still capable of producing a perfectly healthy baby. IVF screening could be made madatory in extreme cases, but its a tender issue.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

We've no right to tell anyone that they can't reproduce by their own choice, let alone tell someone they cannot do it because of certain gene features.

Where's this going to stop? One day we're preventing Huntington's disease, the next minute we're preventing batshit insane right wingers from reproducing.

owait..//.

EDIT: But no seriously, what a ludicrous idea.

 

[4lettersdown]

lul we are both in saem threads.
im pretty sure we dont let gays have kids right now (not completely sure) through third party etc, and i think a debilitating diease that (say) means the kid will probably only live to a few weeks is worse than a bit of buttsex