The parents who object to Cerrie Burnell's disability ought to be ashamed of themselves. I was also born with a short arm missing one hand. Small children will ask me in the street what happened to my arm. I am happy to tell them, but often the parent pulls the child away and says that they shouldn't ask. It's the parents who can't accept anything other than a sanitised world with perfect bodies - if it's not perfect enough you can go to a plastic surgeon and have it changed, can't you? Now that's what I call sick! Small children have open minds and accept life for what it is. Isn't that wonderful and worth preserving?
Iris Gordijn