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AUTISM
The new play Tomcat tests our views about eliminating "neurodiverse" children.
Leading researcher Simon Baron-Cohen believes that significant obstacles, both scientific and ethical, remain before we can undertake prenatal testing for autism.
In a controversial move last week the West Australian Reproductive Technology Council authorised an IVF clinic to screen out potentially autistic embryos.
Two contemporary trends have been linked by a recent article in Nature: the rising age of first-time fathers and the increasing rate of autism.
Studies still preliminary
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