{"id":476,"date":"2005-12-04T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=476"},"modified":"2005-12-04T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:42:11","slug":"the-price-of-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2005\/12\/04\/the-price-of-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of \u2018Perfection\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years i have blogged on and off about termination of the female foetus leading to massive gender imbalances in India. It is something that bothers me terribly.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, would my response be the same if hordes of women went and got their pregnancy terminated so that they don&#8217;t have a child with Down&#8217;s Syndrome? or that they didn&#8217;t have a child with visual disablilities?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/20\/weekinreview\/20harmon.html?pagewanted=2&amp;ei=5090&amp;en=6546c1531be4d1d2&amp;ex=1290142800&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;adxnnlx=1133704810-zVafrzy7\/+Ro5+biR9D98g\"> article in the NYT<\/a><\/strong> got me thinking about my own responses to the same act<\/p>\n<p>I definitely believe in the right not to have a child, just as I believe in the right to have a child. But this is not about theoretical belief&#8217;s, but about cold, hard reality.<\/p>\n<p>How much do you genetically engineer\/fine tune  before it starts interfering with natural balance? 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