emotional consequences of early testing for genetic disorders

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/health/18huntington.html?ex=1331870400&en=7ce9d3291eab0b28&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Personally, I think I'd rather know.

But it's a hard thing to know.

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Re: I'd want to know.

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Yeah, that's an even harder one, because you're in a position of having to make decisions for someone else that can't possibly make them for their own.

(Yes, you do this every time you decide to adopt a pet, or have/adopt an infant. But it feels different, somehow.)