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Tay Sachs, a fatal genetic disorder in children that causes progressive destruction of the central nervous system, is especially prevalent in Jewish people of Ashkenazi (immigrant of Middle Eastern biblical descent). In attempting to eliminate the disease, scientists are working on a genetic cure, but this is rather agonising for many Jews because ....
Jewish Law frowns upon interfering with the natural life cycle
it takes an extremely long dialogue process with the respective Rabbinical authority
it has been concluded that there is no cure for Tay Sachs disease
false genetic and eugenic arguments were used to justify the Holocaust