BBCW - we're all aware that years ago one saw more 'amputees' around, but the lady in question has a genetic birth difference, rather than a deliberate act of removal.

We don't see so many of these 'defects' any more because we have better overall health, better facilities, care and screening. Many parents make the heartbreaking decision to terminate a foetus that is seen to be 'deformed' or suffers from certain genetic traits that will make life extremely difficult and unsatisfactory for all. That is their decision and not one we should condone or condemn out of hand.

Tips of fingers are neither here nor there - the late Jeremy Beadle had a right hand that was differently shaped with fingers all the same length, but it was never used to ridicule him or as a reason to ban him from TV...

The parents who have complained are the ones who need the 'diversity lessons', and are probably the ones who are frightened of something that is not their version of 'normal'...

But then, who is to say what is normal?!

LTS