Re: 伤心新妈

choi

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(A) http://mitbbs.com/article_t/NextGeneration/33868705.html

(B) 煩死了! As if Chinese have known no science. Geez, people in the world are
no longer ignorant, in part because science has made great stride in the
last half a century.

In 1960s in City of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, my parents--with us children in tow--
visited their close friends, a couple. My parents were not country bumpkins,
but they did not went to college, either (my dad might not even finish
primary school; he could write and read, though). Before arriving at the
destination, my mom whispered that the newborn--the third born--of the
couple was polydactyl, speculating where the gene came from. That was
ancient time.

Nobody is perfect. I am not asking you to follow in the footsteps of Ms.
Sarah Palin, who, together with her husband, decided against aborting a
fetus who was diagnosed with Down's syndrome. But your posting suggests you'
d have aborted the baby if only you had known the medical condition.

Come on. This is harmless (to me as well as to medicine).

"Many cases seem to occur without an apparent cause * * * Polydactyly is one
of the most common congenital hand differences, occurring in approximately
1 out of every 1,000 births."
Polydactyly. Children's Hospital (a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital),
Boston.
http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site1073/mainpageS1073P0.ht


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