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"But testing for Down syndrome during pregnancy and the accompanying expansion of choice should lessen the isolation of people with disabilities. The world is a much more welcoming place for children who are wanted."

Aarrgh, wrong...wrong...wrong! From experience -- it's completely the opposite, being the rare 'disabled' person in a sea of normies is a lot less welcoming, and a parent not wanting the kid to have disabilities isn't the same as them not wanting the child at all! *headdesk*

About clones -- the controversy eludes me for two reasons. First is that it shouldn't freak people out so much, considering it's just artificial twinning, and we have genetic multiples born all the fricking time. So I don't consider that a logical reason *not* to do it. Second, and in the polar-opposite direction, is that the *real* controversy should be the number of fetuses with (my) birth defects that would result for every one normal live birth. I don't mind being here as myself, but I doubt most parents/researchers *wouldn't* abort my kind, and if we did increase drastically in number, we'd probably do really painful things to the healthcare system.