P & J

Somehow or other, it never IS the wine, in these cases. -- The Pickwick Papers

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

PBS Isn't So Liberal

I just saw a great PBS documentary. It was about dwarfs, and yes I did just start watching it because I thought it would be funney. It was normal short people stuff; that is unitl they started talking about having children. One female dwarf said she was worried about bringing some one into the world who would possibly hate his or her life because of the dwarfism. But than there was a 20 something dwarf (and the son of a dwarf father and mother) who said that he has never thought his life is not worth living; in fact he said his life was quite fulfilling. Than another dwarf mentions the possiblity of preventing dwarfism through genetic screning (that is aborting a fetus who is also a dwarf). All of the dwarfs said that such a approach is frightning and they sounded worried about such new "bio"technologies. One woman said she would refuse to have a genetic screning; in fact they would have to tie her down to take such genetic tests of her child. Every one of the dwarfs condemed, in implication, such terminations of lives of dwarfs. I would like the meet the nazi who could listen to these testaments of human dignity and still argue for "better" children through genetic tests and aborting of "unfit" feti. (What is the the plural of fetus?)

1 Comments:

Blogger clara said...

fetuses, dan, fetuses.

4:29 PM PDT  

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