Posted on 02/16/2023 10:51:47 AM PST by Morgana
Disturbing new research indicates more than one third of Americans are okay with selecting and destroying their children as embryos based on DNA tests that predict their likelihood of being smart enough to attend a top-tier college.
A new opinion poll published in the journal Science asked Americans about testing embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF), an infertility treatment that involves creating embryos outside the womb before implanting them in the mother’s uterus. Often, embryos are destroyed in the process, even though they already are unique human beings at the earliest stage of life.
According to MIT Technology Review, the poll found about 40 percent of Americans likely would test their embryos for signs of intelligence and choose those who exhibit higher capabilities, should such a test exist.
The researchers also asked people if they would choose to genetically modify their children’s DNA at the embryo stage if the technology was safe, and 28 percent said they would, according to the report.
As of yet, it does not appear that anyone is publicly offering DNA tests that predict intelligence, but scientists and ethicists believe they could be coming in the near future. Currently, tests are available for genetic abnormalities that causes diseases and disorders.
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Here’s more from the report:
As far as MIT Technology Review could determine, no child has yet been picked from a petri dish on the basis of its educational potential score. But that moment may not be far off. Early users of Genomic Prediction’s health scores who’ve spoken about their experience come from segments of society with strong preoccupations with cognitive performance.
One couple who were customers of Genomic Prediction, Simone Collins and her husband Malcolm, say they are building a large family using IVF and genomic health prediction tests. While they were not able to access educational prowess scores for their last child, Collins says next time could be different.
In an email, Collins said she has “identified companies” that “will provide this information.” She added, “We’ll absolutely be factoring it in with future embryo selection.”
The results have ethicists and scientists concerned about future implications, and many are urging countries to pass regulations regarding the practice.
Michelle N. Meyer, a co-author of the report and bioethics professor with Geisinger Health System, expressed serious concerns about their findings.
“I certainly don’t think this is something good,” Meyer told MIT. “The bigger risk is saying nothing and letting this unfold against a laissez-faire regulatory and market system.”
She and co-authors Patrick Turley and Daniel J. Benjamin warned that such tests, if or when they do exist, could “exacerbate existing inequalities” in society, according to the report. In other words, rich people who can afford IVF could select their children based on tests about their intelligence and potentially even their height, weight, hair and eye color.
“For the foreseeable future and maybe forever, this technology is going to be available only to people who are already wealthy or are privileged in other ways,” Meyer said. “To the extent that this does have an impact, and gives any offspring a boost, [this] is not something that is going to be equally accessible to everybody.”
For pro-life advocates, another huge concern is that more human lives – children – will be destroyed simply because they have traits that their parents deem “undesirable.”
Abort Democrat babies? Pro-abortion folks, mostly Democrats, are already doing that.
My first thought but more than half.
The babies or the polled people?.......................
“One third of Americans are okay with selecting and destroying their children as embryos based on DNA tests that predict their likelihood of being smart enough to attend a top-tier college.”
Brown or Bust?
Woah! I was going to post the same thing!
That was Sanger’s position. And Darwin’s.
Many americans support the murder of you and me which is why I have the tagline below.
The 1/3 are utter fools wishing for their own death.
For the USA top tier (25 highest universities) the average IO is above 140.
https://www.cognidna.com/universities/
The percentage of any population above 140 is estimated that 0.25 to 1.0 percent.
SO nearly all of the 33% ok with this should be dead already!
This is the spiritual blindness we live in today.
Well, that would be the end of the Amish then.
Many Americans show signs of LI. 😵
Grim humor but remember that was the early aim of Planned Parenthood icon Margaret Sanger (they removed some of her statues and paintings not long ago, though) who promoted racial culling by eugenics and wanted the abortion centers within easy walking or bus distance of urban black people.
This quote has been “fact checked” to supposedly mean it was “out of context”——
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” Margaret Sanger.
One actual letter:
https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358bc3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf
In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women.—guttmacher.org
“we would eliminate over half of the Democrat party.”
Not just over 1/2. about 85-90%
one step away from Nazi final solution if you ask me.
There’s millions of grown up babies out there this could apply to...
More like 90%
The base and false-scientific appeal of eugenics has always existed. The words of people like Sanger and Himmler in the 20th century made some sense to those using the over-simplified logic of perverted science.
Christianity resists this thinking
Not merely out of compassion, but because it is absolutely un-scientific (no one will never statistically “improve the population” by empowering corporations and government bureaucrats to select and kill people for profit or political fantasy).
But moreover, the consequences to society for having such a political/social system will be brutal to everyone alive as well.
It would have eliminated over the half of the respondents to the damn poll...
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