http://www.blisstree.com/articles/an-obviously-deformed-child/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:36:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/an-obviously-deformed-child/comment-page-1/#comment-531732 Autism Vox » A Lot of Knowledge Is Not a Bad Thing: Prenatal Testing and Diagnosis Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:43:48 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/an-obviously-deformed-child/#comment-531732 [...] As a teacher of college students, I think it is imperative that no knowledge, no facts, no information, be withheld from them. I teach about ancient Roman society, which produced Virgil, whose poetry with its evocation of “the tears of human things” (sunt lacrimae rerum, Aeneid 1.462) has sustained me. I teach about Roman society, in which most of the laws and legal rights applied only to the members of the senatorial or patrician class; in which untold numbers of slaves lived lives that were (in the words of a later philosopher), “nasty, brutish, short, and solitary”; in which a paterfamilias—the head of a Roman household—had the right, according to the ancient Twelve Tables, to put to death a deformed child. And I think this same sense that it is better to know, to get all the facts out on the table, and then to think and judge and discern, is why I think it better not to shy away from a diagnosis, or even prenatal genetic testing. [...] [...] As a teacher of college students, I think it is imperative that no knowledge, no facts, no information, be withheld from them. I teach about ancient Roman society, which produced Virgil, whose poetry with its evocation of “the tears of human things” (sunt lacrimae rerum, Aeneid 1.462) has sustained me. I teach about Roman society, in which most of the laws and legal rights applied only to the members of the senatorial or patrician class; in which untold numbers of slaves lived lives that were (in the words of a later philosopher), “nasty, brutish, short, and solitary”; in which a paterfamilias—the head of a Roman household—had the right, according to the ancient Twelve Tables, to put to death a deformed child. And I think this same sense that it is better to know, to get all the facts out on the table, and then to think and judge and discern, is why I think it better not to shy away from a diagnosis, or even prenatal genetic testing. [...]

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/an-obviously-deformed-child/comment-page-1/#comment-529130 Kristina Chew, PhD Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:00:37 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/an-obviously-deformed-child/#comment-529130 <i>Insignis</i> has somewhat the meaning of "marked" and "standing out." Insignis has somewhat the meaning of “marked” and “standing out.”

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/an-obviously-deformed-child/comment-page-1/#comment-529129 mcewen Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:18:04 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/an-obviously-deformed-child/#comment-529129 And how 'conspicuous?' picky, picky, picky! And how ‘conspicuous?’ picky, picky, picky!

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