{"id":270,"date":"2006-07-03T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=270"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:31","slug":"eugenics-and-the-autism-prenatal-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics and the Autism Prenatal Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now possible to test for autism in your unborn baby.  A blood test, so far with a very limited availability, can be used to scan the fetus for possible autism genes. So the question is: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">if you knew, would you do it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before you start arguing for the parents&#8217; right to choose, please have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismprenataltest.com\/\">this site<\/a>. I won&#8217;t force you to read all of it, but at least consider if, given the choice, you&#8217;d have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismprenataltest.com\/advancesinprenatalgenetictesting.html\">allowed Bill Gates to be born<\/a>. Yeah, I know; I&#8217;m a Linux user myself, and a question such as this, even if it is rhetorical, is almost impossible to resist.<\/p>\n<p>Eugenics, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now possible to test for autism in your unborn baby. A blood test, so far with a very limited availability, can be used to scan the fetus for possible autism genes. So the question is: if you knew, would you do it? Before you start arguing for the parents&#8217; right to choose, please have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}