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Maria Keller was pregnant with her fourth child when she visited her doctor for a routine ultrasound at 20 weeks and was confronted with a moment all mothers dread. Maria and her husband, Joe, suspected something was not quite right when the ultrasound technician suddenly became quiet as she caught the first glimpses of the couple’s unborn child on the ultrasound screen. Then the technician abruptly exited the room, leaving Joe and Maria waiting for a few tense minutes before they were called in to see the doctor, who met them with a distressed look on his face. The ultrasound...

Any allusion to present-day biomedical practices as being eugenic usually leads to quite hysterical denials and the accusation of painting with an inappropriate Nazi brush. I've heard all the arguments, so please spare me: The only people who were Nazis were the Nazis. The only things that are eugenic are what the Nazis did in the interests of breeding a more superior race. Genetic research in this day and age is an absolutely cutting-edge, wonderful, and very necessary ethical endeavor. The howling eugenics deniers will even concede that eugenics didn't originate in Nazi Germany (the U.S. and the U.K. have...

snip Researchers had expected sex selection among Asians to decline as they became Americans. But in today's New York Times, Sam Roberts reports: Demographers say the statistical deviation among Asian-American families is significant, and they believe it reflects not only a preference for male children, but a growing tendency for these families to embrace sex-selection techniques, like in vitro fertilization and sperm sorting, or abortion. ... [A] number of experts expressed surprise to see evidence that the preference for sons among Asian-Americans has been so significantly carried over to this country. snip What about purveyors of sex selection? Roberts notes...

Close window Published online: 4 July 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070702-9 Doubt cast on fertility techniqueScreening embryos might do more harm than good.Michael Hopkin Embryos can be screened for chromosomal abnormalities before implantation. SPL Dutch researchers have questioned the effectiveness of a technique that many fertility specialists believe improves the chances of pregnancy. Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) harms the chances of motherhood for women older than 35, they claim. PGS involves removing a single cell from a three-day-old embryo and checking that a selection of chromosomes is normal. The technique is widely regarded as giving the best chance of success for...

For years the March of Dimes (MOD) has been boycotted by pro-life groups for its involvement in the abortion industry. Unfortunately, many well-meaning pro-life citizens continue to support MOD, not knowing one of the group's methods of preventing what it calls "Birth Defects" is to promote abortion.MOD was one of the major forces behind the development and widespread use of amniocentesis in the second trimester of pregnancy. Amniocentesis is a test commonly used to determine if an unborn child has a congenital abnormality, knowledge of which can facilitate the decision to abort "defective" children. Pat Robertson of CBN and the...

Genetic Screening Encouraging More Abortions, Social Worker Warns -- She Sees Health Care Moving Toward Eugenics Mentality By Fred Jackson and Jenni Parker March 17, 2004 (AgapePress) - In Canada, a University of Victoria professor says her country's health care system is sliding toward something resembling Nazi-style eugenics. In a recent speech, Tanis Doe, a professor of social work, told her audience that the widespread practice of pre-screening pregnant women and their offspring for genetic diseases has turned into a system for purging society of the disabled not unlike eugenics programs of the past. Eugenics has been defined as the...