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There's a lot to unpack in this article: 1) Bauer is, I think, correct to believe the lives of people with Down Syndrome are worth as much as other lives. Objectively, having Down doesn't make life less rich or worthwhile, nor does it make loving anthropology and being loved less rewarding. 2) Bauer's essay is marred by her habit anthropology of attributing unflattering beliefs to large groups of people, based on dubious reasoning. For example, she writes "I know that most women of childbearing age that we may encounter anthropology have judged her and her cohort, and have found their lives to be not worth living." Huh? Even among the tiny minority of women of childbearing age who aborted a fetus with Down Syndrome, it's unfair to assume that they consider people with Down Syndrome to be leading lives not worth living; there are obvious other reasons they might have chosen an abortion (for instance, not believing that they personally had the ability or the resources to care for a child with Down Syndrome).
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