You or your s/o's tests positive for Huntington's chorea- Do you procreate

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Huntington's chorea,:
This is a genetic disorder which is passed on from generation to generation. It actually results in the gradual degeneration of brain tissue in middle age (can be as early as mid to late 20s)
As the disease progresses, any function that requires muscle control is affected, this causes reduced physical stability, abnormal facial expression, impaired speech comprehensibility, and difficulties chewing and swallowing. Eating difficulties commonly cause weight loss. HD has been associated with sleep cycle disturbances, including insomnia and rapid eye movement sleep alterations.
Selective cognitive abilities are progressively impaired, including executive function (planning, cognitive flexibility, abstract thinking, rule acquisition, initiating appropriate actions and inhibiting inappropriate actions), psychomotor function (slowing of thought processes to control muscles), perceptual and spatial skills of self and surrounding environment, selection of correct methods of remembering information (but not actual memory itself), short-term memory, and ability to learn new skills, depending on the pathology of the individual





It is one of the very few diseases that we can stop TODAY.
BUT
you have to not procreate if you are a sufferer.
Huntington's disease is autosomal dominant, needing only one affected allele from either parent to inherit the disease. Although this generally means there is a one in two chance of inheriting the disorder from an affected par




So if you had Huntingtons would you pass it on.


Me NOT A CHANCE

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[BikerBabe 0]

where's your "i wouldn't get pregnant in the first place" option?

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where's your "i wouldn't get pregnant in the first place" option?

yeah i altered the Question but could not chage the options new poll.

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[kbordson 8]

To you, is choosing not to procreate is different from choosing to abort?

If I had Huntingtons, I would be very current on the treament (both present and future). I would let that knowledge guide my decision.

But even if there were to be a potential "cure", knowing that it would be a 50/50 chance of transmission and that the child would have to manage with that disease and/or treatment....

If I happened to get pregnant though.... I don't think that I would abort. I would let the dice roll and once the child was old enough, educate him/her on the disease and then he/she can decide to get tested or not. Might be a horrid dump to place on a child, but he/she might have had a REALLY cool 20+ years up to that point. Why deny that?

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Can a mod lock this thread please

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[Skyrad 0]

WOW! And I though my Fat thread was a bad idea!

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