With you on this one
Just a sort of case study, which I think is a testimony to the occasional selfishness in some of these cases- my mum is currently working with a 12 year old boy, who has severe mental disabilities. He can't talk properly (he is currently just learning to say the alphabet), he can't look after himself, and is entirely incapable of having any sort of independance in his life. He is also just getting to the age where he realises this. His mother, after her third daughter, was told that there was tissue in her womb, and that if she were to get pregnant, the child would be mentally disabled. She got pregnant, because she wanted another kid. I know it's not the same thing, as this woman knew from before conception that her child would have no quality of life, but I do think that it is a testimony to the overriding need to have a child that some women have, to the point that it occludes thinking about the life of the child you are about to have. I personally, if I had MS, would need a kick up rthe arse to realise quite how selfish I was being, regardless of hormones.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 16:43, Reply)