The Sunday Times has totally misrepresented issue.
This is NOT about genetic manipulation. The embryo is ALREADY deaf. Parliament is just making a statement that embryo is not allowed to live.
Deaf = no right to life.
Reminds you of what happened in Nazi Germany?
Deaf people being forced to respond to measures were a government is making a statement that certain classes of embryo don�??t have a right to survive.
We are just responding to deaf embryos should not be destroyed on the basis they are deaf. End of. If you think that deaf embryos should be killed off on the basis they are ALREADY deaf, then why not say lets kill an embryo because it needs to wear glasses.
For the record, those with refractive errors aren�??t allowed to become egg or sperm donors. If you wear glasses you have an abnormality. Do you agree with that or not?
People need to wake up to the extent of this clause instead of using it as an excuse to have a go at what they THINK deaf people stand for.
P.S. The Sunday Times got it completely wrong, just an excuse to exercise out their media misconceptions again, which gets into disability hate crime (a criminal offence)
take a look at this link on how the times get it all wrong
http://stopeugenics.org/2007/12/22/not-quite-with-the-times-…/
also Jackie Ballard chief executive of RNID is hearing and not one deaf person work for the RNID and they think they know whats best for us.