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Doctors can now detect certain diseases and deformities in babies before they are born. They can tell couples what risk they run of having a handicapped child before they start a family. But how far are we prepared to go in eliminating crippling and killing diseases? Should we force abortion on a woman carrying a spina bifida or mongol baby? Should we insist that carriers of the horrifying Huntington's Chorea be sterilised? Just who is deciding which of our future citizens are not fit to be born?
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