writersoul:
If I understand correctly, your concern is that you will want to be tested for breast cancer and figure you may as well also be tested for tay sachs once you’re having a blood test?
1. Does it really work like that, that you can tack on tay sachs to breast cancer for a few more dollars? Is there really any relevance between being tested for one and the other? Or is it more like “I might want to go to Key Food and figure I may as well get tested for tay sachs once I’m leaving the house”.
2. Why do you want to be tested for tay sachs? Do you think that being a carrier makes a difference in your life somehow? Just who are you making fun of for making a stigma now?
3. Look, they want to have a system where people don’t know their own and other’s status, so that a stigma cannot be started. It makes sense that to protect that system they need to make sure people cannot use them to figure it out, which would happen if people were tested by someone else and then by them. I don’t find that unreasonable, and I don’t know why you don’t think that is the most simple explanation.
DY: I have no idea what you are talking about. I’ve never seen anyone posting on facebook warning people not to be tested for tay sachs because then dor yeshorim won’t let them be tested again.