Melinda Tankard Reist wrote a book where she shared the stories of women whose babies were diagnosed with health problems. All of the women had their children. Reist says:
“Diversity is upheld as a value, yet great efforts are made to ensure that certain mothers don’t have children, and that certain children are never to be allowed to contribute to this diversity. In this sense, at least, humanity is becoming increasingly homogeneous. Babies born outside a standard view of what is normative are viewed as muddying the gene pool and costing the “normal” citizens of society too much money.”
Melinda Tankard Reist Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 2006) 5
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