Charles Colson the latest:<\/a><\/p>\nIn the absence of such a test for autism, researchers at University College Hospital London are settling for what they call a \u201cclose enough\u201d solution. They have applied for permission to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, to screen out male embryos in families with a history of autism. <\/p>\n
Their \u201clogic\u201d is that since 90 percent of all autistic people are males, their testing would allow families with autistic children \u201cto have a daughter free from the condition.\u201d Of course, they would have also killed males who were not autistic. Talk about wholesale gender cleansing. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
But what else is it? Charles Colson the latest: In the absence of such a test for autism, researchers at University College Hospital London are settling for what they call a \u201cclose enough\u201d solution. They have applied for permission to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, to screen out male embryos in families with a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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