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Please Consider Compatibility When Choosing a Partner AS Genotype


I went to see a friend yesterday and she was telling me about her friend's daughter who was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia at the age of 6. They are on a search for a matching donor for a bone marrow transplant to save her life.

I told her that I will find time to come in for the cheek swab to check whether I'm a match. Then we got chatting, and I told her that since I'm AS, the first question I asked my boyfriend, just like most other men I've dated is their genotype. She then responded "Chick o, I think it's all about love o.

If you love each other and have faith, you will both pull through, no matter the genotype". And I thought to myself "oh well, people don't learn". Here is a friend of a woman whose daughter is lying critically ill on a life support. They are now taking a very drastic measure to save her life. And she is telling me that "it's all about l0ve o".

I think it is selfish for two people to INTENTIONALLY and/or recklessly bring a child to this world to suffer. You enjoy being in l0ve to the detriment of an innocent life. I have given up a chance at fairytale love just because we both found out we were AS a day after we started da@ting.

Medical technology has not been able to come up with a good cure or remedy for sickle cell condition. And until they do, I strongly believe it's only fair for informed individuals to take pragmatic and precautionary measures to reduce the chances of bringing in more lives to live in agony.

I'm a young unmarried woman with an AS genotype, so I'm speaking as an "insider". My mum started sounding this into my ears as soon as I could understand the logic behind the compatibility, as it relates to genotype and procreation. If I get to have an AS child, (50% chance), I will educate them on all possible ways to avoid having a sickle cell baby, and I will start as soon as they can understand it.

I forgive couples who were ignorant of this fact, but I don't forgive couples who were informed but decided to take chances. If you are AS and you decide to marry AS, make sure you get medically assisted conception. I heard there are ways you could avoid conceiving or birthing a baby with SS genotype.

I'm not so sure, but embryo selection, and a technology that helps you check the genotype of a child as early as 8 weeks or so, then you can ab0*rt, if need be, are currently in place. But if you know you can't ab0*rt and you don't subscribe to embryo selection or any other form of assisted reproduction that could help avoid having an unhealthy offspring, then please consider compatibility when choosing a partner.
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