“Your child is genetically predisposed to buckteeth. We recommend - strongly, we should add - immediate termination.”
That’s what I’m talking about. Where will it end when you start down that road??
And, we can imagine being “strongly recommended” to terminate the pregnancy.
In China, as I recall, with their one child policy, those who violated that policy were penalized with regard to various governmental benefits, schooling for the child, and other sanctions were put in place.
Of course we aren’t a totalitarian society such as China. Not yet anyway. But as we move down that road too, these scenarios become more plausible.
Witness how bakers are forced out of business for not baking a cake for a homosexual wedding. There are already aspects of totalitarianism in our culture. Extend that to decisions about aborting a less than perfect baby, it’s not such a long leap if you think about it.
what about using a gene splicer machine to alter a person’s gene’s at will. Want blond hair? presto, gene edited blond hair.
As the Christian theologian R.C. Sproul says, “The norm becomes the normative. In other words,” he goes on to explain, “what is accepted soon becomes acceptable.”