yes. they can have a good life. and the thing is that if you look in the streets of our cities, you find lots of miserable people. they don t have my dna mutation, potentially, theyjust have hard lives and we can do something about that. were there societal pressures on you not to have children? yes, yes, there were. i remember when my daughter, when her mother was pregnant, there was an expectation, they showed that that pregnancy was affected by achondroplasia and i think there was an expectation. she was born in 1988, there was an expectation that we do the right thing and have a termination. we went. . .yeah? that was from the medical professionals around you? yes. notjust the medical profession. friends, colleagues thought it was the right thing to do. what about your own parents? well, my father was very welcoming he was a doctor and he knew the genetics, but he also knew that it need make no difference
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