There's been some and more debate on whether parents-to-be should be allowed to screen the foetus for signs of down-syndrome and other life-damaging handicaps. Why shouldn't they be allowed to? Is it wrong for parents to want to do what it takes to lead a simpler life? Isn't this screening somewhat similar to going through a company's prospectus before investing in it? It is. So, is it wrong? I'm not so sure it is.
Considering the highly judgemental world we live in, it might be more, not less, compassionate on our part to screen the to-be-handicapped and save them the trouble of enduring life among a people so driven by the pursuit of nothing less than the perfect - ask the people who've had to suffer discrimination because they were born with, or without, something that's considered valuable, and they'll tell you what they've had to go through. Ask me.
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