Another example: I have a close friend with high functioning Autism. She and her husband have been married for thirty-four years, have a business and a home, but they do not have children because her mother took her to a doctor and had her steralized when she was a child because she was labeled "re-d" and her mother had an "obligation" according to the doctors, to prevent more "re-d" children from coming into the world. They would be wonderful parents, but they aren't, and it breaks my heart.