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[quote=Anonymous]Putting aside the specific facts of this case, it troubles me to see so many PPs saying it is flatly impossible for doctors to have a bias against intellectual disabilities.  This is a demonstrated, entrenched, documented trend among physicians of all specialities.  Surveys about withholding treatment from mentally disabled children consistently show a majority of doctors in favor.  This bias is prevalent and hard to overcome.

It begins with genetic screening.  When negative screening results come back, the presumption is that the parents will terminate.  When I was reading reviews of high-risk OBs in this area, I came across countless stories of women who were coarsely told "you will have to terminate" by doctors who refused to discuss options.  When people saw my disabled brother at the playground, the first question my mom would be asked was, "You didn't test for that?". When my parents declined termination, they were put under immense pressure by the medical establishment.  It's not just my anecdotes, though--again, researchers have uncovered the trend for decades.

So the assumption that doctors are incapable of this kind of bias is false.[/quote]

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