IVF - Are you Deaf?

[SueEllen]

Like immigrants have to, not?!

Immigrants can learn English and a large amount speak English when they arrive. Plus they are likely to have or want to have jobs, and will take carp ones like butternut squash picking .......

Deaf parents who purposely bring a deaf child into the world obviously want their child to face a lifetime of discrimination and hardship. Even if the child gets a job they are more likely to be made "redundant" and have to live off benefits than someone without their disability.

[shaunbhoy]

Deaf parents who purposely bring a deaf child into the world obviously want their child to face a lifetime of discrimination and hardship. Even if the child gets a job they are more likely to be made "redundant" and have to live off benefits than someone without their disability.

Even leaving the economics of it all to one side, why would you want your child to have an increased chance of a disability, however minor you might deem it, when the option of preventing it is there in front of you?

[threaded]

Even leaving the economics of it all to one side, why would you want your child to have an increased chance of a disability, however minor you might deem it, when the option of preventing it is there in front of you?

Their argument is that it is not a disability.

[shaunbhoy]

Their argument is that it is not a disability.

Yet they were obliged to voice their point via an interpreter.

[threaded]

Yet they were obliged to voice their point via an interpreter.

No, for you to understand them the BBC provided an interpreter. In their community such things are unnecessary.

[shaunbhoy]

No, for you to understand them the BBC provided an interpreter. In their community such things are unnecessary.

Well that would be all well and good if their community existed in its own little vacuum. It does not however, and for the BBC to provide an interpreter, I and many others have been obliged to pay a licence fee.
If their child is not born deaf then perhaps in years to come they can voice their side of things without the need for one.

[EternalOptimist]

I always think of this story when this type of subject comes up

everything is 'fair' by law

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html