{"id":78,"date":"2008-01-07T00:13:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T04:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/01\/07\/spreading-sickness\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T00:14:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T04:14:19","slug":"spreading-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/spreading-sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some British deaf groups are demanding the &#8220;right&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/health\/article3087367.ece\">create deaf embryos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ballard, \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most parents would choose to have a hearing embryo, but for those few parents who do not, we think they should be allowed to exercise that choice and we would support them in that decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are a number of deaf forums where there are discussions about this. There are a small minority of activists who say that there is a cultural identity in being born deaf and that we should not destroy that cultural identity by preventing children from being born deaf.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words don&#8217;t fail me very often, but I&#8217;m finding it difficult to come up with a pithy comment on just how creepy and disgusting this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some British deaf groups are demanding the &#8220;right&#8221; to create deaf embryos. Ballard, \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most parents would choose to have a hearing embryo, but for those few parents who do not, we think they should be allowed to exercise that choice and we would support them in that decision. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are a number of deaf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}