A NYTimes Magazine piece on Wrongful Birth lawsuits, and the whole issue of genetic testing and its consequences

One gets quesy reading articles like this – quesy from the lurching and evasion, violent motion which Dramamine can’t cure. An unborn child is "potential life" although it is growing, it is surely already alive, is it not? Hands are wrung about how far is too far, and if aborting the deaf child is next, but the hard questions about the bottom line – the killing – are never honestly confronted.

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