The Faba

To be perfectly frank - I personally would not wish to have this disease.

To chance giving someone a debilitating disease is not something I personally could do, I would want my children to has every advantage I had.


But to dissect the statements of the two groups of people:

Those who are in favor of having children have an argument that seems very self centered. They admit that the childs life will be more difficult, and have the mentality of thinking 'Well, that sucks, but just deal with it. If you don't like the idea that I'm risking giving my kids disabilities then you're not accepting of disabled people.' Thinking someone bitter for not wanting to pass on a disease is silly, at best, to me.

Those against proliferation seem more sensible to me. They truely seem to care about the child's possiblity of disease more than anything else.

Now you only have a 12.5% chance of passing on this disease to your child.
(This is because your father doesn't have it, counting out your first X chromesone. Your mother has Xx, making you 50/50 on being a carrier. This 1/4 chance is coupled with a 0/4 chance, etc..)

1/8 is a relitively low chance. I wouldn't take it myself. If you really want to have a child of your own, you would be gambling with their life, not yours.

Personally, I would adopt a child instead of having one.