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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vogon Poet: [QB] These people have an agenda. I skimmed the replies here while the linked page loaded, and thought "surely this must be some pro-life stunt? After all, you can't do anything if the baby is going to be born deaf, so they're out to show that if they'd shosen to terminate the baby, etc., etc., etc. . ." Silly me. The reality is actually far sicker. I prefer to avoid bringing their sexuality into it, because it likely has nothing to do with it. But what you have is this couple who have chosen to make an unfortunate affliction, their deafness, the basis of this drive to set themselves apart from normal human society. Argh, how to put this? There are constant attempts to add and improve to ways in which the disabled interact with the rest of the world. Induction loops, wheelchair ramps, "blind-friendly" pedestrian crossings. We shouldn't expect gratitude, these are good things to do, things which should be done. But this is just throwing it back in our teeth. It's paramount to some poor guy in a wheelchair ignoring the ramp, going to the foot of the stairs, throwing himself out of the chair and demanding he be carried up. Enough of that, people will soon say: "Deaf culture? Fine. Be deaf. Insult us in sign language you know we can't understand, we'll just do the same, out loud, behind your backs where you can't read our lips. Oh, and by the way - watch out for that bus? Hello? Oops. Too late. Maybe your son might have been able to warn you if you hadn't decided he should be deaf too." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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