CaucusInferredBulk

Just bought some of them for a coworker at the local mexican grocery. You can find em in most towns if you know where to look.

I have one, it writes and looks like ink, but is erasable.

Living there for thousands of years? Virtually all of turkey was Greece until the ottoman conquest.

I slightly exaggerated the case, but not by much. People in the Deaf community are certainly selecting for Deaf children (via genetic screening), and the concept of deafening a hearing child is being discussed.

http://jme.bmj.com/content/26/2/95?ijkey=b2b7696d133b5e6cd7f6f082e5664fadc834fe27&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

Now consider a fourth case. The same parents have chosen the embryo with the gene for congenital deafness which is duly implanted. By a terrible stroke of bad luck,7 the preimplantation screening was faulty and when born the child has perfect hearing. Are the parents to be commiserated with? Is it really a terrible stroke of bad luck? Is it so unlucky and is deafness so clearly, simply a different ability rather than a disability that the parents would be entitled to deafen their child to restore their hopes and their (and the child's) good fortune? I shall not argue for it here but I see these cases as morally on a par. I do not believe there is a difference between choosing a preimplantation deaf embryo and refusing a cure to a newborn. Nor do I see an important difference between refusing a cure and deliberately deafening a child.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/mar/09/genetics.medicalresearch

Now the couple are hoping to have a second child, one they also wish to be deaf - and that desire has brought them into a sharp confrontation with Parliament. The government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) bill, scheduled to go through the Commons this spring, will block any attempt by couples like Garfield and Lichy to use modern medical techniques to ensure their children are deaf. The bill is a jumbo-sized piece of legislation intended to pull together all aspects of reproductive science in Britain and pave the way for UK scientists to lead the field in embryology. But in trying to do so, the civil servants drafting the bill have provoked a great deal of unrest.

https://thedeafsherlock.blogspot.com/2009/08/would-you-make-your-hearing-kid-deaf-on.html

But the bigger question is: If hearing parents have a right to put the CI on a deaf child, then should the deaf parents be granted the SAME RIGHTS to be allowed the decision to make their hearing child DEAF?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/health/05essa.html

https://cbhd.org/content/ends-dont-justify-genes

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/deaf-parents-could-choose-to-have-deaf-children-5369256.html

I have heard of deaf parents who have deaf children who refuse treatments for them (surgeries, hearing aids, etc) because they think it lessens deaf culture, or because they do not consider themselves disabled. I have even heard of one case where deaf parents wanted to cause their hearing child to be deaf so they would be part of the community.

Obviously none of those situations apply to you, because your parents actively supported your English. But if you were to have a deaf child with a type of deafness that was treatable, what would you do?