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"Abortion should be illegal for any intelligent person over 18 and mandatory for any idiot with with an IQ below 90."

Rather than having a knee-jerk reaction to this rather Spartan approach to human engineering, let's consider the implications for a moment.

Since IQ is not an absolute number, but rather a relative position on a Gaussian Bell, it is only a matter of time before the result of genetic management moves those on the right cusp of the bell to the left of center.

Thus, the proponents of this type of population management implicitly condemn their own progeny (should they themselves even prove "worthy" to procreate) to a "dead" end.

As Dr. Thomas Sowell (who, himself, would probably not exist had this type of guideline been in place in America in 1930) has pointed out, even when IQ "progress" occurs in any group, it is oscured by constant redefinition of the norm.

As a result, society would disallow reproduction for 40% of its members, no matter where they scored relative to today's standards.

Then, of course, there's the reference to utilization of resources, and the description of economics using the analogy of getting a "bigger share of the pie." Such a simplistic view of economics as a zero-sum game leads to the inevitable question of just where the proponents fit on the bell curve today.