Wednesday, April 21, 2010
DNA Testing and Bipolar Disorder
In this article it talks about using DNA testing to figure out your likelihood of having bipolar disorder. The article got me thinking about people who would use this in a negative way. Would there be people who discovered that their young child will most likely have bipolar disorder and then treat them differently, or even worse, not want them anymore. If i were a parent i don't know if i would want to know if my child had bipolar disorder early on. I would be afraid i might treat them differently. But a plus side to it would be being able to prepare and research about the disorder so you could handle it more effectively.
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Amniotic sac testing, or the sac fluid testing, for mental or physcial disorders is a good idea. I know this concept is very controversial but I believe its good. Parents, I believe, have a right to terminate the baby if they can forsee the baby having a mental or physical disorder. It will only be humiliating and a nuisence on the parents AND the baby if they are born to these disorders. If you can forsee problems, why not stop them? If you can retry and have a healthy baby why not save the problem of having a mentally or physically challenged babies. No body wants to live with a mental or physical disorder so keeping the baby and making them live with that disorder would be the more inhuman thing to do than to relieve them of their problems before they are born.
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