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...everywoman and a lot like me. If anyone were to ask me, "What is your defining characteristic?" it's that I'm a mom. And in my case, and her case too, [it's that we're] single moms. So even though she works outside the home, her child is the most important thing in her life and the day she adopts him she feels that her life has become complete...
...school is "What is justice?" That's what I'm writing about, too. What is right and wrong? What I like about this book is that it has an emotional quandary at its center. What should she do? If this kid on this card turns out to be her child, does she want to know the truth? ... A lot of books have a child in jeopardy, but this is a different kind of book. It's really about motherhood in jeopardy...
...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...
...Screening for breast cancer susceptibility is advancement in the same direction. The previous legal boundaries for appropriate screening (a 90-100 percent chance of the disease affecting the child) were violated in this case. As advances allow us to screen for smaller and smaller susceptibilities, firm boundaries must be drawn to keep science in check. Policymakers must consider the range of genes that cause the same level of susceptibility as BRCA1 and evaluate the implications of permitting such extensive use of pre-natal screening. Ultimately, a level of susceptibility for which it is permissible to screen must be determined...