Posted on 06/05/2025 8:13:05 PM PDT by Morgana
Meet Bob and Chuck.
Brilliant scientists at a new company have determined that Chuck will outlive Bob, so Bob may as well be discarded.
See how unfathomably twisted that is?
And yet it’s the model for a new, pricey business that somehow got a glowing piece in The Wall Street Journal.
Nucleus Genomics, in its infinite wisdom (that’s dripping with sarcasm), has revealed a $5,999 analysis of embryos, which can reveal certain factors, like likelihood of age-related diseases, height, and IQ.
It basically allows prospective parents using in vitro fertilization to go window shopping for the “best” possible baby, as dystopian as it is to type those exact words out.
“It is about living a longer, healthier life,” Nucleus founder and chief executive Kian Sadeghi told the Journal.
(By the way, the “less desirable” babies are effectively condemned to a grisly death.)
Just to get this out of the way, IVF is unspeakably evil.
No matter who supports it, you simply cannot be a pro-life Christian and think IVF is OK.
If life truly begins at conception (big, fat spoiler: it does), then artificially forcing a bunch of conceptions and using a few of them while discarding and/or freezing the rest is nothing short of mass murder.
It’s an attempt to “play God” by literally controlling life and death, and it’s as heretical as it is blasphemous.
Just listen to this opening paragraph from the Journal (emphasis added): “Prospective parents using IVF will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending the longevity of their offspring, according to the 25-year-old entrepreneur behind Nucleus Genomics, a DNA testing and analysis company.”
Picking and choosing who lives and who gets shoved in a freezer — or worse — based on physical traits and characteristics is the literal definition of eugenics.
Look, this writer can commiserate with any couple struggling to have a child. It’s a sapping and helpless situation like few others.
And yes, more people having more kids (in wedlock) is an objectively good thing.
But ends can never justify the means, and discarding God’s most vulnerable creations as if they were last week’s Chinese takeout leftovers because you think you can get a better order of General Tso’s Chicken this week is the epitome of hubris.
By the way, even taking the obvious moral and ethical qualms out of the equation, it’s hard not to look at this whole thing with a skeptical eye, given the eye-watering price tag attached to it.
“The embryos are given probabilities for the likelihood they will get these chronic conditions,” the Journal noted. “It is up to the parents to decide the qualities most important to them when choosing which embryos to use.”
Six bands is a lot to pay for “probabilities.” Oh, and concerned parents “can book sessions with genetic counselors if they want to discuss the results,” which surely won’t cost much.
But even if this whole operation were free, it stinks — and it’s pretty creepy.
Look no further than the way Sadeghi capped off that Journal piece.
“The longevity movement is about taking medicine back and putting it in the people’s hands,” he said. “Why would that not apply now to the most intimate, personal, emotional, sensitive decision you will make? Picking your baby.”
“Picking your baby”? Life is a precious gift from God, not some commodity to be traded in for a newer, better model.
What you’re really doing when you “pick your baby” is choosing which of your offspring is allowed to live, while sentencing a bunch of others to death.
It’s disgusting, it’s depraved, it’s beyond barbaric and it’s something that needs to be called out at every turn.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Gee, the lack of humility before nature that’s being displayed here, uh... staggers me.
Donald Gennaro: Well thank you, Dr. Malcolm, but I think things are a little bit different then you and I had feared...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, I know. They’re a lot worse.
Donald Gennaro: Now, wait a second now, we haven’t even seen the park...
John Hammond: No, no, Donald, Donald, Donald... let him talk. There’s no reason... I want to hear every viewpoint, I really do.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Don’t you see the danger, John, inherent in what you’re doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet’s ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that’s found his dad’s gun.
Donald Gennaro: It’s hardly appropriate to start hurling generalizations...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: If I may... Um, I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here, it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now
[bangs on the table]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: you’re selling it, you wanna sell it. Well...
John Hammond: I don’t think you’re giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody’s ever done before...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
“Disgusting: New Company Charging $5,999 to Advise Which Humans Should Live and Which Should Die” I wonder how much they would pay me to let them choose?
That’s what I thought too.
All the executives, MBAs, lawyers, marketers, and scientists at that company should go straight to the top of the chop-chop list.
Maybe the janitor’s younger siblings can be spared.
Shades of the movie ‘Gattaca’...
Some famous people who may had not been born if science had decrypted the human DNA sooner: Abraham Lincoln (Marfan’s Syndrome), Emily Dickinson (Manic Depression), Vincent van Gogh (Epilepsy), Albert Einstein (Dyslexia), John F. Kennedy (Addison’s Disease), Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer’s Disease), Ray Charles (Primary Glaucoma), Stephen Hawking (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), and Jackie Joyner (Asthma).
[[so Bob may as well be discarded. See how unfathomably twisted that is?]]
YES!!! I DO SEE!
You would, Bob...
I’m not that worried. I figured my kids would unplug my life support to charge their Iphone. Unintentional, of course.
Sophie’s Choice LLC.
Limiting the Life of Children
“ Just to get this out of the way, IVF is unspeakably evil.
No matter who supports it, you simply cannot be a pro-life Christian and think IVF is OK.”
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Jeez, I wonder if the writer has been blowing up IVF clinics recently. /sarc?
Ill probably unplug my own life suppprt system accidently. Lol
But evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3:13
Most often people do IVF because they cannot naturally become pregnant. Not because they are eugenicists.
Many people can conceive but cannot implant so they may flush 100+ embryos by attempting to get pregnant without IVF. With zero babies to show for it.
Most embryos with even minor genetic defects do not implant and far more likely to miscarry if they do. In many such cases, people attempting the natural way have already destroyed several times more embryos than IVF. Sometimes with traumatic miscarriages or abortions to save mother’s life down the road.
Genetic screening is mainly used to determine which embryo is least likely to miscarry. The more cells with missing chromosomes, the higher chance the embryo will miscarry naturally.
Yes, scientifically choosing which embryo lives is harsh but natural selection is often harsher. The average person attempting to get pregnant probably loses more embryos by chance than one average round of IVF.
What you are calling “natural selection” is in reality “GOD”. Those of us who believe God, who created the earth and all on it, is rightly in control of it. When, in spite of our free will, we agree with His full control, knowing (with complete faith) that for reasons we may never understand, His will is always best. Men who usurp that power are playing god and we have been warned of the consequences of doing so. Satan is the grand master of usurping God’s powers and look where that got him!
Every one of those embryos is a unique person. Man has no right to say which ones are superior and which ones may be defective. We really are living in a world dominated by barbarism.
I was waiting for somebody to bring up Gattaca. That was my first thought too.
Some prospective parents just want to have somebody there to wipe their asses for them when they get old.
My wife was recently diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. They offered her an option of genetic testing. We declined. We’re worried that they will use that to flag our daughters as higher risk and deny them future coverage.
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