Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Hilary Stace,
There are parents in the Deaf community who do pre-natal testing to ensure a child who is also Deaf
In New Zealand? Thought it wasn't allowed here.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Lilith __,
it makes relatively little difference to the opportunities for the child
with fair support and circumstances, many other impairments match that description.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Lilith __,
There are some great ethical minefields about using the food supply to fix what we don't like.
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I personally believe abortion in general should not be illegal, and nor should women be forced into being unwilling incubators.
Last evidence I saw said over 90% of Down syndrome diagnoses result in an abortion.
Despite some improvements, the information available to parents making that difficult decision still does not include people with Down syndrome and their families talking about what the experience has actully been like – just doctors trotting out the clinical fears they learned in med school and making all sorts of assumptions about what that means well beyond their scope of expertise.
Making and distributing some carefully-produced videos and information resources is just too hard for the Ministry, it seems. Or the cost can’t be ‘justified’ which says more about what they and their masters value. I’m done being polite about this.
do the issues raised about disability apply equally to abortion as they do to interventions like folic acid supplements that reduce neural tube problems without terminating pregnancies? If so, it’s about how we feel about disability in society; if not, then it’s more about how we feel about abortion.
Beyond the differences in life experience, it might be interesting to compare responses if you asked people with neural tube defects and people with Down syndrome whether they would miss seeing other people like them in society.
Belonging is an important part of being human. Societies have always found different ways over time to balance individual autonomy with the interests of the group. Some of the cultures that make up New Zealand have more collectively-oriented decisionmaking than others.
Nothing is straightforward.
Verily.
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to giovanni tiso,
do put her in touch. I may be able to add things others can't.
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Speaker: The problem of “horror tenants”…, in reply to Lilith __,
their property will be more attractive for tenants and may command a higher rental
we're battling the same mentality that exports logs and milk powder
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Bart Janssen,
every time society has interfered with that bad things happen
sadly very true
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Bart Janssen,
reasons
we has them
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I found working on Down screening policy really challenging and complex.
Most of all, I want a well-informed choice for parents about the reality they are choosing for their family - and better supports for them either way.
We could do a post..
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... 'feel like buying a ute mate?'
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