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Asperger's Syndrome NZ
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Sex Selection Recommendation Not Welcomed By People With Asperger’s Syndrome
Commenting on the release of the Bioethics Council recommendation to Government to allow sex selection within IVF
programmes for social reasons, John Greally, Information Officer for Asperger’s Syndrome New Zealand said today
“It takes a rather thoughtless breed of eugenicists to recommend this thin-end-of-the-wedge approach to introducing what
will end in tragedy if the recommendation is not killed-off immediately.”
“Any hint of the heinous practice of sex selection being permitted will inevitably pave the way to genocide against
communities with conditions that are preponderant in one gender or the other. Asperger’s Syndrome, a less severe form of
Autism, is known to affect up to eight times more males than females.”
“People with Asperger’s, a non-apparent neurological and social condition usually accompanied by giftedness, vigilantly
oppose any discriminatory action that could impinge on their status as equal and equally valued beings. Not only would
the culture and community of this profoundly different group of people be jeopardized by any form of sex selection being
allowed, but humanity itself would be exposed by unelected technocrats to the loss of an essential gene pool consisting
of a very special inventive, detailed, focussed group of original thinkers that are reputed to have included the likes
of Nikola Tesla - inventor of the electric motor, and Alfred Hitchcock - responsible for a significant sub-genre of
motion picture.”
“The Bioethics Council claim to have reflected the wishes of participants in their research – a claim flatly rejected by
people with Asperger’s who played an active part in deliberations and who see this as a set-up.”
“It is thoughtless advice for Bioethics Council chairman Associate Professor Martin Wilkinson to say to Government that
key decisions regarding gender should be left to parents. Only those with an exceedingly shortsighted and forgetful view
of the value of genetic difference could jump to such an appalling conclusion. To begin to allow for the long-term
elimination of a class of beings who, while not as skilled at social interaction, have traditionally excelled in many
other vital areas of endeavour is to make a down-payment on the downfall of civilisation in the opinion of Asperger’s
Syndrome New Zealand ”.
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