"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Wrongful Life: A court in the Netherlands has awarded damages to a disabled child on the grounds she should never have been born. Her parents say they would have aborted her if their midwife had done prenatal testing and detected the chromosal abnormality responsible for her disability. But a professor of law points out the problem with this line of thinking:
Joseph Hubben, professor of health law at the Free University of Amsterdam, said: "To recognise a disabled life as a source of financial damages gives the wrong signal to society. Disabled people should be fellow citizens not someone who should have been aborted."
