Right to abort foetuses with abnormalities?

Subject: Right to abort foetuses with abnormalities? Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:38 pm

My first meeting with Toby saw him bounding into the library with scraps of paper tumbling out of his satchel, garbling apologies for the fact that he was one hour late. Luckily, he had a mischievous grin that won him instant forgiveness.

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Toby has autism.

In the year that I tutored him we had vigorous political debate (anyone to the left of George Bush was a communist) he thrilled to Australian history (particularly Menzies) and he informed me on a weekly basis that I was most definitely ‘not hot’. Not like my flatmate, who was more to his tastes.

Toby’s cognitive and physical impairments, not to mention his aesthetic and political misjudgements, have not prevented him from leading the happiest of lives. He completed an arts degree, has a large and loving circle of friends and plays in a spectacularly unsuccessful AFL team. Toby was lucky to be born into a supportive middle-class family. Soon we may say that he was lucky to be born at all.
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Right to abort foetuses with abnormalities?

Right to abort foetuses with abnormalities?

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