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In closing: children who are welcomed, gently, into their birth communities have been given the gift of Joel Feinberg’s “open future.” They may embrace their community or they may eventually drift  away;  there  is  no  way  to  tell,  in  advance, what they will choose. But, importantly, their options are left open, and none of their body parts will have been surgically modified or removed —without their  consent   prior  to  the  moment when  we  will  be  able  to  hear  the  voices  of  the adults they will become.<ref name="geisheker2010" />
In closing: children who are welcomed, gently, into their birth communities have been given the gift of Joel Feinberg’s “open future.” They may embrace their community or they may eventually drift  away;  there  is  no  way  to  tell,  in  advance, what they will choose. But, importantly, their options are left open, and none of their body parts will have been surgically modified or removed — without their  consent — prior  to  the  moment when  we  will  be  able  to  hear  the  voices  of  the adults they will become.<ref name="geisheker2010" />
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