Mandatory Embryo Genetic Testing isn't Eugenics, it's Smart Science (Saving Tax Dollars)

Opposing Views ^ | March 04, 2009 | Opposing Views

[MrB]

leftists/secularists and “unconstrained vision” types believe in the concept of a solution without tradeoffs, which is achievable when you give the right people enough power to implement their vision.

Same deal here - they won’t even look at the tradeoffs involved, just in what their final goal is.

[GeronL]

well lets not. I don’t think we should play God that way.

[Tax-chick]

As to the subject at hand, ... elimination of a person with a genetic allele that will most certainly cause cancer or insanity or early death is a personal choice to kill another person because he might be sick someday.

[Tax-chick]

But if we could produce another Ricardo Montalban ...

[allmendream]

KAHN!!!!!

[Tax-chick]

At least we have him on video.

[allmendream]

Might be sick?

Someone with Huntington's is CERTAIN to go insane and die early. In fact one can count the number of repeats in the Huntington's gene and give an eerily accurate prediction much like this...

“You have X number of repeats, thus you will start to go crazy at 32, be a raving loon by 34 and dead by 36.”

The prediction is so accurate that the woman who invented the test for Huntington's didn't even take the test herself (although her father died of it), for fear of the possibility of knowing just when her time was up.

[Tax-chick]

And there’s no chance of developments in medical science in the next 30 years, just as there haven’t been any in the past 30 years?

[allmendream]

Not sure how to stop the accumulation of hyper glutimated proteins in brain cells.

If you have an idea please share it, as it would save many people from early insanity and death. You would laterally be commuting their death sentence.

[allmendream]

Spell check error. LITERALLY commuting their death sentence.

[Tax-chick]

I’m not a scientist, but lots of other people are. Considering what’s been accomplished in the past, it’s reasonable to believe that much will be accomplished in the future.

We’re all going to experience physical and mental deterioration and death eventually, so why not just kill *everyone* now?

[allmendream]

I am. I certainly hope for the best. But one must also accept reality, and some of these people have seen family turn crazy and die; they want better for their children.

If the option is to either not have children, or induce ovulation, gene check, fertilize and implant; I vote for the second.

[Tax-chick]

induce ovulation, gene check, fertilize and implant; I vote for the second.

If that's what they're doing, then much of the moral issue dissipates. However, it's generally presented as embryos being examined, and destroyed if unsatisfactory, rather than unfertilized eggs. An egg or sperm prior to their combination is not a new person; after combination, there is a new person.