[C19fan]

What is so "repugnant" about terminating embryos for intelligence if doing it for a host of other reasons, for example, gender and genetic disease, is a ok? Eugenics never went away it just laid dormant until the technology came along to make it "cleaner" and allow parents to do it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This will be the end of professional sports. And maybe the Democrat party.

[Responsibility2nd]

I see a problem here. If they do deselect babies with mental difficulties and low IQ’s then how will they sustain the liberal democratic base???

[Sacajaweau]

I believe abortion si/was the offshoot of eugenics.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It compares ultrasounds of the fetus with pictures of Nancy Pelosi.

[AppyPappy]

Oh no. They will be a Democrat!

[Alberta's Child]

Look at how powerful Planned Parenthood has become today, and you realize that the Germans may have lost World War II, but the Nazis sure won.

[son of terrence]

Stephen Hawking wouldn’t see the light of day.

[adorno]

They’re being optimistic there.

They may/could also predict the predisposition of an embryo to be homosexual/transexual/etc., and that could eliminate a huge voting block for democrats.

[Doogle]

....yeah,but they have ears like Odungo....smell like Hilda,...and lie ....like the media

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Adolph would have loved this!

[RegulatorCountry]

If Democrat women start making exceptions to what they have heretofore believed to be sacrosanct, which is a woman’s so-called right to choose, then they’re on the slippery slope to questioning the entire premise. A blob of tissue doesn’t have intelligence at all. It may be that there’s a silver lining to this, but I’m not holding my breath, we are talking about Democrats here. They do love their baby killing.

[dfwgator]

Saw the movie....

[mountn man]

Half of all babies are below average.

[JimRed]

... tests which can pick out 'mental disabilities'...

Mental illnesses like homosexuality or liberalism?

[PapaBear3625]

Just wait until they can find genetic markers which correlate with a high probability of growing up gay. Having or administering such a test will be deemed a hate crime.

[euram]

Eliminating the low IQ segment of society sounds pretty good. It would reduce the democrat population by at least 75 percent.

[ClearBlueSky]

Ok, I'm anti abortion. The only reason needed now is 'inconvenience', a baby simply isn't wanted,right? So here's a reason that's supposed to make abortion WORSE?
It's not like there won't be enough low IQ people who want kids like them, or who even care what the IQ level will be.
I'm just trying to understand how killing a living, helpless human baby is worse because of the reason for wanting it dead. How is 'I don't want a stupid/gay/Downs/handicapped/redhead child so abort it' worse than 'I don't want any baby, healthy or not'? The end result is a dismembered, dead human being and it's wrong to call that wrong.

[Chewbarkah]

I don’t know how much the new tests cost, but for pennies on the dollar I can predict low IQ for offspring by merely looking at pictures of the parents. Throw in writing samples, and we’d be up to 99.99999 accuracy.

How about $10 a test? And for $5, I’ll gladly answer the question for couples BEFORE they breed.

[mewzilla]

For more on the company, Genomic Prediction....

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609204/eugenics-20-were-at-the-dawn-of-choosing-embryos-by-health-height-and-more/

[mewzilla]

Better article....

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032041-900-exclusive-a-new-test-can-predict-ivf-embryos-risk-of-having-a-low-iq