Continuing the discussion from Schizophrenia is eight different diseases, not one:
If scientists can develop tests to determine if an unborn child will develop schizophrenia, do you feel that a high chance for developing schizophrenia should be grounds for aborting that child?
I donât like abortion. I think it is often done for what I think are the wrong reasons. I donât, however, believe that I have the right to dictate what someone else can do with their body. Also, aborting to avoid the suffering a child may experience with this illness is no worse in my opinion than many of the other reasons any woman aborts.
This is a very hard call to make for me. I do not like abortions - I think under certain rare circumstances it might be necessary. Too many times abortion has become a form of birth control.
aborting a baby - fetus that has half a brain, no limbs, a really defective heart - well maybe
Aborting a baby - fetus that will grow up to have schizophrenia - I say give that baby a fighting chance - no abortion
The only way genetics are involved, and this is the truth.
The only way genetics are involved is if they despise my genetics for some reason.
The cause of this does not lie in the genetics at all.
But if there are certain genetics that make you a target then there you go.
Hopefully we can all be mindful on what gets posted here, as the abortion topic is a big no no on the rules here.
The issue it raises as much as the abortion issue for me is the spectre of eugenics resurfacing(yes I know there are some who think itâs never gone away).
I voted for the third option - I am pro abortion, but personally I would not want a potential child of mine aborted based purely on the chance of it having schizophrenia. For me other factors would have to come into play, and the high chance of schizophrenia be coincidental re the decision made.
Yes, letâs try to limit the discussion to how it relates to genetic testing for schizophrenia. I included the third vote option so we can avoid bringing other issues up.
Well said⌠also, consider all the people hereâŚsome may have their issues but lots of intelligent, cool, humorous, loving people from what I have seen, who also say they are diagnosed SZâŚ
None of you would exist if abortion for high potential SZ were committed regularly in the pastâŚso consider the futureâŚ
Interesting topic. Genetic testing is like Pandoraâs Box - weâre all carrying some genetic defects; many of which will never affect us or our offspring and many of which are easily preventable, treatable and even curable. We all want healthy children but taking this road will lead us to wanting the perfect child, I think. Gone will be the days when parents were happy with â5 fingers and 5 toesâ. Iâm absolutely pro-choice but I try to put myself in the shoes of someone whose gone through years of IVF and finally gotten pregnant - would I abort based on the âchanceâ of SZ if I was in their shoes? Heck no.
I am pro-choice not that I have any say⌠being a single man⌠itâs an issue that doesnât require my opinion. But I do support a womanâs right to choose⌠The huge restriction of the pill and other forms of contraception flies in the face of reason⌠to me anywayâŚ
On a personal level⌠I do love children and I would hate it if my sis or one of my female cousins aborted out of the fear of what might or might not trigger in the future. I donât hear any advocating abortion for Downâs syndrome, M.S. Cancers, Autism, AIDS, I wouldnât advocate for abortion due to the genetic set up of SZ either.
I think itâs my cousin who gives me hope⌠My uncle (his father) has SZ. My cousin was born later in my Uncles life⌠he has all the benchmarks that indicate my cousin should be in the thick of it as well.
Heâs 30⌠and he is perfectly healthy, wife, kids, job⌠Heâs slightly OCD about schedules and a clean house but that is a lucky trait. He was a shoe in for Sz⌠heâs fine. Very nice guy I enjoy his company.
Better fisherman then I am⌠
My Dad is NOT Sz, I was born very early in my fathers life⌠My parents were stable and healthy⌠Iâm the one who has it. I would never tell a woman why or why not to have an abortion⌠but for the chance of Sz? NO⌠not an only reason.
i find voting impossible.
if you had said âcouldâ be grounds, then i would say yes as i think itâs a personal choice and that could be a reason.
but âshouldâ be groundsâŚi donât think anyone should be forced to abort either.
i dont agree with abortion on any level, its a bit like euthanasia to me, kind of the same thing.
i also agree with the womans right to choose a woman shouldnât have a baby if she doesnât want it.
i think child abuse is more cruel.
I would never subject somebody to schizophrenia.
For me, it would be really unhealthy to be pregnant.
For health reasons, I would be at risk for a lot of different things.
steven hawkins would never have been born had his genes been scrutinised nor einstein or van goghâŚ
the world would be a lesser place without them.
take care
Excellent! Many musicians, artists, visionaries, scientistsâŚ
And should we be reminded of what happened when Hitler wanted a âpureâ super race? He eliminated certain types of people⌠which included the physically and mentally disabledâŚ
Action T4 Nazi programmeâŚscary stuffâŚand we do not want to go down this road againâŚ
I am against abortion even if it is fetus still a precious life. Abortion = Murder.
Im not big on abortion, only in certain cases do I find it morally/ethically correct.
Like the case studies in this medical ethics class- I would say âyes, abort the babyâ if its from a raped little girl who is so small that she will die in childbirth- that was a real case study- but âno wayâ to people who just didnt use contraception and are otherwise normal.
By the way, aborting âpotentially schizophrenicâ babies is called âeugenicsâ and is what Hitler was all about.
exactly mortimouse people lifes circumstances arent black and white they are grey.
its not murder because its mp of cells
The worldâs a better place with me in it - if only known by people close to me + people who ,might read my writing. If I hadnât been schizophrenic I wouldnât have become the same person I am. By eliminatingâ schizophrenia, or any disability we would be limiting the variety of possibilities of human being.
With the minuses come the pluses.