Genetic Disorder

Parents with limited incomes are being denied access to genetic tests and the counseling that experts say should accompany them

By Dana Goldstein

The mapping of the human genome, first completed in 2000, vastly accelerated research into the genetic causes of human disease. But national health policy has not kept up with the science, and consequently many Americans lack the information they need to make an informed decision about [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Yes, Ted Kennedy’s sister was impared, though so did not have the typical signs of Down Syndrome and who tested above 75 on IQ tests, but it seems a little hyprocritical that he is sponsoring a bill to “encourage” parents to raise children with similar problems without mentioning that Ted’s father Joe had Rosemary lobotomized at the age of 23 because the family could not “handle” her and that she spent the next 63 years institutionalized at the St. Coleta School for Exceptional Children.

    If a family with the resources available to the Kennedys could not raise a child that was, as many experts believe, mentally ill with depression and a bit slow in comparison with her siblings before her lobotomy, then how can he expect people with far fewer resources to do so?

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