Deaf by Design

                                                                  

                                                                "Deaf by Design" 

      Science has developed through the history and as the time passes new experiments and as a result new discoveries has been found.  Alternating the DNA sequence is a new tool in biology field which has helped lots of people in addition survived huge number of lives. In today’s society lots of pregnant women try to examine and test that their fetus is in right conditions and doesn’t have any problem. There were some cases that babies with disabilities has been diagnosed and announced to their parents that helped them either to have ability to think about either saving the child or aborting the child. In lots of cases abortion of the child was the best choice since it would help parents and the child itself. However, people have used this technology for unusable purposes as well. For instance the deaf culture has come up with the idea that if the normal and healthy people can abort their unhealthy and disable child therefore they can abort their healthy child. According to the article lots of deaf people wish to have a deaf child, like themselves. They even prefer to abort the healthy child than having a child, which has the ability to hear. In my personal perspective, I believe that the alternating of the DNA should be used in useful fields. Useful fields can be defined as correcting the mistakes in addition helping to make the fetus healthy if possible. However in reverse, deaf people contemplate to abort the healthy child and change the healthy person to a disable person. In my personal observation this is wrong. In this case deaf people do not have the right to abort their healthy child and aim to get an unhealthy child only because; people without disability can abort their disable child. This way of thinking is unfair and selfish. Although all of the people in the world, have the same rights but in this case their way of thinking is wrong and they are not supposed to get the right to abort the healthy or change a healthy child to a disable person. Heather’s best choice is to keep her disability since her family is extremely against the surgery and changing a deaf family member to a hearing person. They believe she was raised in a deaf culture and in future in the deaf culture people will not accept her. This is the best decision for her because as she operates the surgery she will not be accepted between her people and in future between the hearing people. This is also very risky since as she does the surgery there is no way back even if she regrets it, since she has experienced the sounds and voices additionally it will be harder for her to forget that experience and come back to her past life. Also as it was mentioned in the video she is still young and cannot make the right decision, therefore she needs to wait until she become a mature person because she can think better an wisely also she can make a decision by herself.