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This portion of the article must have a typo: > "What if there are parents who wanted to select for Tay-Sachs disease?" I doubt there are any would-be parents
by haZard_OS 8y ago
This portion of the article must have a typo:
> "What if there are parents who wanted to select for Tay-Sachs disease?"
I doubt there are any would-be parents out there who want a child with a 5-year death sentence. Judging by the sentence immediately following:
> "There are plenty of people in Silicon Valley who are somewhere on the spectrum, and some of them will want children who are neuro-atypical.”
...I suspect the author intended "Tay-Sachs" to be "Autism".
- nwah1 8y agoAnd that entire paragraph touches on random fears about fertility technology that have almost nothing to do with the subject of this article, which is gametogenesis.
- patall 8y agoYes and no because the article is also about the future possibilities of getting kids with desired traits (as you can generate those much better when you have a truly unlimited potential of egg cells). And there was for example recently a court case that (deaf) parents in Germany won so that thier (also deaf) child wont get a hearing implant.
- Notorious_BLT 8y agoOr their editor didn't like the implication of the author's sentence, and modified "Autism" to "Tay-Sachs" without carefully reading the followup sentence that made the removal obvious. Tay-Sachs doesn't have a community that tries to put an identity and positive spin on it the way autism does, and I could see an editor making this mistake