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I'm going to quote from another magazine of the'60s.
我要去引述1960年代，另一家雜志刊載的話。
This one is from 1968-The Atlantic Monthly, voice of liberal America-written by an important bioethicist.
這是1968 年出版的大西洋月刊，美國的自由主義之聲，作者是知名的生物倫理學專家。
He said, There is no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down syndrome child away,
他說，對于遺棄唐氏綜合癥的嬰孩，我們不必感到內疚，
whether it is put away in the sense of hidden in a sanitarium or in a more responsible, lethal sense.
無論是將其送到療養院去，或者用更負責也更致命的方式。
It is sad, yes-dreadful. But it carries no guilt.
這很可悲，也很可怕，但不需要有罪惡感。
True guilt arises only from an offense against a person,
真正有內疚只源于侵犯人，
and a Down's is not a person.
而唐氏綜合癥患者不是人。
There's been a lot of ink given to the enormous progress that we've made in the treatment of gay people.
關于同性戀者處境的大幅度進步，已經有很多文章就此發表觀點。
The fact that our attitude has changed is in the headlines every day.
每天都有頭條報導，人們對同性戀的態度已有所轉變。
But we forget how we used to see people who had other differences,
但我們遺忘了過去是怎么看待，不同于大眾的人，
how we used to see people who were disabled,
忘了過去是怎么看待殘障人士的，
how inhuman we held people to be.
忘了我們曾經多么不人道。
And the change that's been accomplished there,
在那些方面的改變，
which is almost equally radical,
幾乎同樣激進，
is one that we pay not very much attention to.
我們卻未給予更多的重視。
One of the families I interviewed, Tom and Karen Robards,
我采訪過羅巴茲家族的湯姆和凱倫夫婦，
were taken aback when, as young and successful New Yorkers,
他們當年是年輕有為的紐約人，
their first child was diagnosed with Down syndrome.
在得知他們第一個孩子患有唐氏綜合征時大為驚訝。
They thought the educational opportunities for him were not what they should be,
他們認為兒子并未得到應有的教育，
and so they decided they would build a little center-two classrooms that they started with a few other parents-to educate kids with D.S.
于是他們決定成立一個小型教育機構，兩間教室里，他們開始和其他的父母，一起教育唐氏綜合癥兒童。
And over the years, that center grew into something called the Cooke Center,
多年后，該機構發展為庫克中心，
where there are now thousands upon thousands of children with intellectual disabilities who are being taught.
現在有成千上萬的智障兒童在這里接受教育。
