Reply To: Would you marry someone like this?

If someone is a potential carrier for a disease that WILL, if inherited as a disease, subject his/her child(ren) to pain and suffering from birth, that person needs to think long and hard about getting screened and ensuring that the spouse is not likewise a carrier. It is completely irresponsible and CRUEL, IMO, to knowingly bring a baby into the world to suffer, IF that suffering can be avoided by NOT MARRYING the carrier of the same genetic disease that you carry. Clearly our Jewish leaders agree, or Dor Yesharim would not exist today.