"Tragic Choices" shows the extent to which pregnant women are subjected to an analysis of their child's worthiness to be born based on manufacturing protocols.
Imperfect human beings are seen as defective products to be removed from the assembly line. The parents can always try again for a more desirable child. This distorts the relationship between parents, children, and the medical profession. Parents become masters, children become consumable packages,allowed to continue life as long as their fitness meets the criteria which doctors and society have judged valuable enough to warrant existence.
The blog for Massachusetts Citizens for Life: the pro-life movement in the Bay State since 1973.
Showing posts with label genetics; eugenics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genetics; eugenics. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Designer babies: the disintegration of a culture of life
Abortion and it's philosophical connections have had several scientific outlets lately: the horrors of embryonic stem cells where tens of thousands are experimented upon in order to bring about 'cures' even though adult stem cells are the only ones with the potential to cure anything, has long been predicted to eventually cause 'designer babies' where parents chose the traits of their offspring. That day, predicted well by the movie Gattaca in the mid-90's, is here.
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