Kyle Cummings - Outside Reading #2

I'm in a Medical Ethics class and I've been reading a lot of medical case studies this semester and it's been very... educational. The first fews weeks in class was spent going over different sets of ethics and since then we have been applying them to different medical cases. Among the usual medical hot topics like abortion and euthanasia, there were many cases having to do with medical screening and eugenics that particularly caught my attention. One case that I found very interesting was a Jewish group in New York that formed a medical screening organization to prevent the birth of children with diseases that cause death soon after birth, such as Tay-Sachs disease which causes the brain to literally turn to jello with in two years of birth. Couples who were part of the program would get their genes tested to see if they were a carrier for deadly diseases and they would see if they would likely give birth to a child who had a disease that would kill them soon after birth. This case got me thinking about what I would do if I knew what kind of problems my children might have. To my knowledge I don't have any diseases like Tay-Sachs in my family heritage, but lets say my future fiance and I knew that when we have children they would not last long past birth would that stop me from marrying that person? I think there is  only so much I want to know about my future.