[HEY4QDEMS]

I ain't asking for much, all I want's a cup holder.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Funny, but this sounds a lot like the 'royal blood' arrogant customs of past times. In fact, hybridizing anything eventually leads to some unhealthy results. If this actually comes to pass, I suspect the rutting peasants will still retain their vigor while the uber-elite will all be beautiful and childless (by genetics or abortion).

[School of Rational Thought]

What is the disability part?

[KantianBurke]

Utter nonsense. Giving one's kids positive attributes such as a high IQ is a bad thing? How about ensuring that a family history of high blood pressure isn't past down? These people are luddites who would feel right at home with those who attacked Jenner when he first burst on the scene.

[crazyhorse691]

children have a high IQ, or excellent athletic ability, or be over 6 feet tall, or have blond hair and blue eyes?

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Hey, that almost describes me perfectly....except for the blond hair...and the high IQ....and over 6 feet...and excellent athlete...but, I do have eyes(but, they aren't really blue).

[chickenNdumplings]

"....and you will be like gods.." Genesis 3.5

Yes, we picked the wrong tree.

[SoftballMominVA]

There was an article in the WaPo about 2 years ago about a deaf lesbian couple who purposely used semen from a deaf donor so as to produce a deaf child. The article described their absolute joy when they discovered he was 75% deaf in one ear and 95% in the other and were insulted when the doctor suggested they take measures to preserve the little hearing remaining in the one ear. Disgusting.

[MinorityRepublican]

Ping! You have to click on the article to the link provided so you can see where they mention about deafness.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

If there were a technique or a treatment that would guarantee any children I had would be smarter, healthier, stronger, and potentially longer lived than myself you can bet your arse I would do whatever it took to assure my children had the benefit of said treatment.

Science is not the terrible bugaboo many make it out to be. If it can improve the quality of life for our children, we would be remiss in our responsibilities as parents to not take every advantage of what it has to offer.

Would I exercise great caution and due diligence before starting the procedure? Absolutely. And once it proved safe, I would gladly get in line with a prayer of thanks that my children would have advantages I never had..

[conserveababe]

But if I wanted a daughter who was brunette like me, that'd be okay?

Woohoo!

[Popocatapetl]

I read a small and rather bizarre study with people that went into depth to ask them "If you could have children any way you wanted, what would you want them to be?"

Their first response was what we would normally expect. Wanting their children to be smarter, more athletic, prettier.

However, the researchers followed up their questions, and a strange trend started to emerge. People wanted their children to have more canine and feline attributes.

The reason was that they felt cats and dogs were far more personable than are people, and if their children looked and behaved more like pets, then people would appreciate and love them more. And this, they concluded, would be better for their children than if they were smart, strong, or handsome.

[ken21]

the los angeles skool system has already developed a new illiterate slave class.

[SmoothTalker]

It is horrifying that some parents would deliberately disable their children. I mean what could be more cruel than teaching a kid to be a lib?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

And wouldn’t it be boring to live in a world someday where almost everyone is extremely intelligent and beautiful? Variety, or even the politically correct term “diversity,” is the spice of life.

Great, so feel free to avoid any technology that might make your children smarter, healthier, and more attractive. Tell them as they grow up that their lives could have been better and happier but you felt that taking the steps necessary to do so would have deprived you of "the spice of life". And receive the contempt from them that your selfishness deserves.

But of course, Luddites aren't satisfied with practicing their backwardness themselves. They want the rest of us to share in it - hence the need to write articles like this.

[George W. Bush]

That's a great article. Should be read more widely.

I had no idea that 3% of all the screenings were in favor of children with disabilities. Personally, I would outlaw all the genetic screenings if I could.

[wallcrawlr]

Deaf/HoH ping

[David_G_Burnet]

I thought this was about the case up here where a couple is accused of getting their kid diagnosed with one of the alphabet disabilities to get an extra crazy check, then over prescribing the kid to death.

That case wasn't really any surprise to me. Generations of welfare people have been purposely bringing children into the world, just to collect a check, so why not go a step further and maximize their returns?

This line from the article scared me:

And wouldn’t it be boring to live in a world someday where almost everyone is extremely intelligent and beautiful?

If it weren't for stupid people, I wouldn't have a job.

I NEED STUPID PEOPLE, LOL (as long as they have jobs)

[little jeremiah]

Pingout tomorrow.

Just another form of eugenics. Trying to create "perfect" people.

[Scotswife]

here's the thing...no matter how much they tinker with IQ or with "looks" - have they found a way to "make" people better people?
I'm talking about people who are decent, honest, compassionate people.

There are plenty of "disable" folks with broken bodies who are great assets to this world because they are good people.

There are plenty of healthy smart folks who are jerks.

So it comes down to "who" defines what perfection is and why is it beneficial.

Concentrating on how people look has given us the unnatural Hollywood culture. yuck.

concentrating on IQ still does not address personality and morals.

So even if one can determine that this particular fetus has spina bifida and - my goodness, how awful, we must abort!

No one really thinks about the perfectly formed bodies that will eventually grow up to be the bore at all the parties bragging about his salary.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Since people have very different definitions of "beautiful" and at least of what types of intelligence are most desirable, there's little danger that individual free choice in these matters will result in a population of nearly identical people. Besides, people have been engaging in genetic engineering since the dawn of human existence, by choosing mates who meet their personal definitions of beautiful, intelligent, desirable, etc. There is ZERO connection between Hitler-type government-directed breeding to "improve the race", and individual choice in the characteristics one prefers in one's children. The result of improved technology in genetic choice in children will be a generally healthier, more intelligent population, that is less easily led into supporting the constant expansion of nanny-state programs. This is a GOOD thing.