Is it morally wrong to have kids whose parents have autoimmune disease such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis

[Renee O]

Will The parent pass the disease or the gene to the kid? will the kid most likely going to have the autoimmune diseasewhen the kid gets older? what is the possibility that the kid will get that gene and may be triggered in their life for autoimmune disease or may never happen?

[rhio9]

I don't think that would be immoral. Pretty much everyone has the genes for some sort of hereditary disease or condition. Just having the genes for something does not mean it will necessarily happen to a person. A person's life is more important than a disease. Some of the most influential people in history had hereditary conditions. That doesn't mean they should not have been born, or they were less valuable people. What matters in life is what we do with the time we're here...not how healthy we are.

[tinmuning]

Moral would be too harsh to describe it---and inappropriate too. Should the parents (with history of autoimmune disease) decides to have kids, they know the risks that they would pass on the genes are high. It's the same thing as other hereditary diseases such as diabetes for instance yet we are not calling diabetic parents as immoral, right? It might not be as severe as an autoimmune disease but diabetes may be fatal and as cumbersome.

Also, genes are only partly to blame for autoimmune disease. Individuals may get it whether they have familial history or not.