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...Meanwhile, pre-natal screening against cancer susceptibility presents deviation from the standard practice, as screening has previously only been used against diseases with a 90-100 percent chance of causing a disease that affect the child from birth. BRCA1, however, only raises the risk of the disease from 50-85 percent, while breast cancer itself does not affect the child from birth and has the potential to be cured...
...Although screening for autism leads to worries over the removal of all eccentricities from society, autism is nevertheless a condition that affects a child from birth and causes many difficulties. To condemn the screening of autism due to its links with unusual talents, but not screening of diseases such as Down syndrome, essentially values an autistic person’s life above that of someone with Down syndrome...
...Thus, in keeping with current policies on the issue, screening for autism is morally acceptable. Nevertheless, the act is another step towards the sinister world where every abnormality, up to depression, is removed before birth, and as such it should not be taken lightly...
...handling of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule providing conscience exceptions for health-care workers who for religious reasons refuse to dispense birth control or participate in abortion procedures has upset some Catholics for different reasons. As with the stem-cell decision, Obama's announcement that he would move toward rescinding the rule didn't come as a surprise. In addition, even Catholic leaders disagree about whether federal law provides sufficient protections without the rule, which was one of Bush's last acts in December. If scores of workers would be forced to violate their religious beliefs...
...that goodwill when those supporters concluded that he failed to carry through on his promise to reduce abortion rates. "When he said that abortion should be 'safe, legal and rare,' we all believed him," railed then Commonweal editor Margaret Steinfels after Clinton vetoed a ban on so-called partial-birth abortions. Right now, Obama is surfing impressively high approval ratings. But he can't afford to alienate those liberal and moderate Catholics who could defend him when times get tough...