EVERY mother dreams of giving birth to a perfect baby.
Unfortunately perfection is a subjective assessment and can be clouded by many factors, including genes and, in some cultures, even gender.
Science has enabled parents to find out a lot about their babies before they are born. This information can be beneficial to ensuring the child’s future good health and long life, but, in the pursuit of a “perfect child”, it can also be used to “justify” ending a tiny life.
The life of every human needs to be valued from conception to old age.
Tests that reveal flaws in the genetic make-up of an unborn child need to be considered with extreme caution so that they do not become an easy excuse for killing rather than saving lives.
