Ian Brown, in his article for The Globe and Mail, “I’m Glad I Never Had to Decide Whether My Strange, Lonely Boy Ought to Exist” argue toward the prenatal tests. Nowadays, the new prenatal tests can indicate fetal DNA for gender or any genetic disorder. It gives people a chance to abort the fetus if it’s not what they want. Science lets us engineer a perfect child as we want to have. People who buy donor eggs and sperm can even choose donor’s character. There are several argument about an existing of prenatal tests. Even the experts have different attitude to the genetic testing. Ian Brown, the writer who has one disabled son, asks that “who has the right to decide which life isn’t worth living?” (166). His son, Walker, suffers from the rare
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He also give an examples of a couple who decided to abort the fetus because of gender or serious medical condition. His samples show how people would react with the test’s result if the result shown that the fetus has a genetic disorder. What the parents would do is either to keep the fetus and raise them although they are not ready to raise their child, or to make an abortion. But he did not mention to the couple who use the prenatal tests to prepare themselves for their babies-not to make an abortion. To raise a disabled child is not easy, it can cost many things. You need to spent high amount of money for your child medication, and give them a lots of time and caring. That’s why parents have to be well prepare if they decided to keep the child. Brown’s experience of raising his son “almost shattered everything (he) valued” (167). Because there was no genetic testing for Walker’s disease then, Brown and his wife did not have a well prepare for this situation. Obviously if there is a test for Walker’s disease, they will not make an abortion anyway. Genetic testing is not a tools to help you decide “which life isn’t worth living” but it is a tools to help you prepare for an upcoming situation (166). Denying an existence of genetic testing only makes your problem getting bigger. Owning our fate, ignore to choose our own although we can, in this case is not a responsible things to
He also give an examples of a couple who decided to abort the fetus because of gender or serious medical condition. His samples show how people would react with the test’s result if the result shown that the fetus has a genetic disorder. What the parents would do is either to keep the fetus and raise them although they are not ready to raise their child, or to make an abortion. But he did not mention to the couple who use the prenatal tests to prepare themselves for their babies-not to make an abortion. To raise a disabled child is not easy, it can cost many things. You need to spent high amount of money for your child medication, and give them a lots of time and caring. That’s why parents have to be well prepare if they decided to keep the child. Brown’s experience of raising his son “almost shattered everything (he) valued” (167). Because there was no genetic testing for Walker’s disease then, Brown and his wife did not have a well prepare for this situation. Obviously if there is a test for Walker’s disease, they will not make an abortion anyway. Genetic testing is not a tools to help you decide “which life isn’t worth living” but it is a tools to help you prepare for an upcoming situation (166). Denying an existence of genetic testing only makes your problem getting bigger. Owning our fate, ignore to choose our own although we can, in this case is not a responsible things to