1-0 to the cartoon

[kattahj]

Apparently, an adaptation being wildly different from the original isn't always a bad thing.

My previous post made me look up some of my old cartoon favourites, including Quest for Camelot. Which is a crappy movie in so many ways, but as any true fan, I look at what could be rather than at what is

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[sarcasticwriter]

I can respect that. I hope, when you cool down, you'll consider maybe writing an LJ entry about your general experiences and especially why people should not have genetic screening/selective abortion. I won't even comment on it, if you'd rather I not.

I will say that my views on genetic screening have nothing to do with actual living Down Syndrome sufferers. Once a human being is able to survive without heroic measures outside of a womb, they're entitled to life (until the moment they attempt to commit murder, anyway). I'm not advocating that any living person be treated badly. No way.

And a last thought that will hopefully persuade you to forgive me a little. I'm very aware of the fact that a woman's body will spontaneously abort (miscarry) 95% of genetic abnormalities, and that this happens in 50% of first trimester pregnancies (most women who miscarry never even know they're pregnant). Unless it was brought on by violence or some other external force, miscarriage is usually an indication that a woman's body knows when something's wrong and to reject a fetus when it will not survive. I see it as a completely natural, normal, positive process, and genetic screening with elective abortion is nothing more than an extension and improvement of nature's process. Like immunization and water sanitation, it's a powerful technological achievement that can help humanity to really improve how future generations live. It's a beautiful thing, and a right that every woman should have. I really believe that.

Again, I'm not trying to engage you in debate, since that's clearly not what you want to do. In fact, I'll assume you won't be responding. But I did want to take the chance to soften my previous post a little by explaining how I feel the abortion process (both natural and elective), and why it's no big deal for me to contemplate using elective abortion, at least until less intrusive methods of insuring health and wellbeing in new infants are developed.