Chuck Colson: Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue -- Designer Babies

BreakPoint ^ | 4/2/09 | Chuck Colson

[wagglebee]

Parents of Down Syndrome babies already report that doctors pressure them to abort. Given the cost of health care, how long will it be before all parents are required to have their embryos tested—and to kill the ones who don’t quite measure up?

This has ALWAYS been the goal.

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[humblegunner]

If folks can get a normal kid instead of a retard, isn’t that good?

[wagglebee]

If folks can get a normal kid instead of a retard, isn’t that good?

Are you sure that you would have made the cut?

[oyez]

I would guess the Nordic race is going to make a comeback.

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[Nea Wood]

What a perfect response. Bravo!

[Marechal]

Or, rather, the Antichrist soon will make his advent.

[MantillaMilitant]

Babies and children have been "consumer items" for some time now. If an unborn child is wanted, it's a BABY! If it's unwanted, it's a product of conception to be disposed of like a used kleenex.

As soon as it was legal to abort for reasons of convenience or for no reason at all, we started down this slippery slope. Expect it to get worse, and quickly.

[OrangeHoof]

If you are going to accept that choosing embryos based on genetic qualities is a good thing (and I don't), why would selecting on the basis of hair color or eye color be wrong? I mean, some genes are dominant and others are not. Over centuries, the regressive genes like red hair and blue eyes will become eliminated so if they are desirable, why not encourage them through selective screening?

Could it be that some might see a preference for blonde hair or blue eyes as racist?

[Salvation]

*8Parents of Down Syndrome babies already report that doctors pressure them to abort. Given the cost of health care, how long will it be before all parents are required to have their embryos tested—and to kill the ones who don’t quite measure up?**

So glad my son and daughter in law didn’t get pressured that way. I have a lovely grandson Down Syndrome — who cares? He’s still my grandson!

[Tax-chick]

... shopping for a baby the way you would for a car, choosing exactly the right color and accessories.

Weak analogy. If I choose a blue car, that doesn't mean all the red cars are scrapped.

Children are going to be something very different from what parents imagine, anyway, so why bother trying to preprogram them? Get a cat, stock up on cheap wine, and learn to laugh at yourself.

[Varda]

The reason it’s wrong is that what’s being attempted is the artificial selection of traits aka breeding humans which is wrong on it’s face. It is playing God. How would you like to be totally at fault for the characteristics, health and disabilities of your children the way animal breeders are with what they produce?

Humans like domestic animals have an array of characteristics that can’t be entirely predicted. Things like hair and eye color are easy, things like health and recessive abnormalities are difficult. Something that looks good on paper can result in abnormalities that can’t be predicted. Sometimes these mistakes are severe.

Animal breeders make these mistakes and the mistake is sterilized or put down. What liability will the human breeders have? They already kill those embryos who don’t meet simple selection criteria, what about infants that don’t. Utilitarian ethics says kill them too.

“Over centuries, the regressive genes like red hair and blue eyes will become eliminated”

This isn’t how genetics works. Outcrossing something with a recessive characteristic doesn’t eliminate it, it disperses it. Recessives will pop up in a later generation when crossed with another individual that also carries that recessive.

[MrB]

Just wait until babies are aborted because of their “propensity to be homosexual”...

[MrB]

This embicile cost the "volke" 60,000 Reichmarks during his lifetime:

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

If folks can get a normal kid instead of a retard, isn’t that good?

It's a shame your parents didn't have that choice.

[auboy]

:-)

[little jeremiah]

Only if you want to shove God off the throne and take His seat yourself.

And I’m sure Idi Amin, Hitler, 0bama, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Min, Mao, Kim Jong Mentally Ill, and a host of other really evil men were not retards.

[humblegunner]

So.. you are in favor of more retarded kids?