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Designer baby fears grow..new test that can predict an IVF embryos' risk of having a low IQ [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 15, 2018 | Sam Blanchard

Posted on 11/15/2018 7:57:58 AM PST by C19fan

IVF clinics may soon use a controversial screening technique to get rid of embryos which are likely to grow up with low IQs.

A company in the US offering tests which can pick out 'mental disabilities' – and, in theory, predict intelligence – has confirmed it is in talks with fertility clinics.

The news has stoked fears about a rise in designer babies, which could be created by parents wanting to erase undesirable traits from their children.

Experts say it is 'repugnant' to think about terminating embryos because they are expected to have lower than average intelligence.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; bioethics; eugenics; genetics; iq; ivf
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What is so "repugnant" about terminating embryos for intelligence if doing it for a host of other reasons, for example, gender and genetic disease, is a ok? Eugenics never went away it just laid dormant until the technology came along to make it "cleaner" and allow parents to do it.
1 posted on 11/15/2018 7:57:58 AM PST by C19fan
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This will be the end of professional sports. And maybe the Democrat party.


2 posted on 11/15/2018 8:00:00 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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I see a problem here. If they do deselect babies with mental difficulties and low IQ’s then how will they sustain the liberal democratic base???


3 posted on 11/15/2018 8:00:26 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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I believe abortion si/was the offshoot of eugenics.


4 posted on 11/15/2018 8:00:54 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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It compares ultrasounds of the fetus with pictures of Nancy Pelosi.


5 posted on 11/15/2018 8:02:23 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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I see a problem here. If they do deselect babies with mental difficulties and low IQ’s then how will they sustain the liberal democratic base???

Why do you think that's a problem?
6 posted on 11/15/2018 8:02:36 AM PST by adorno
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Oh no. They will be a Democrat!


7 posted on 11/15/2018 8:02:37 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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Look at how powerful Planned Parenthood has become today, and you realize that the Germans may have lost World War II, but the Nazis sure won.


8 posted on 11/15/2018 8:03:55 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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LMAO x 100.


9 posted on 11/15/2018 8:04:10 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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I recall back in the 90s as abortion mills in West Texas were shuttering that Planned Parenthood was still able to keep them open in proximity to black or hispanic areas.


10 posted on 11/15/2018 8:04:27 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Stephen Hawking wouldn’t see the light of day.


11 posted on 11/15/2018 8:06:03 AM PST by son of terrence
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They’re being optimistic there.

They may/could also predict the predisposition of an embryo to be homosexual/transexual/etc., and that could eliminate a huge voting block for democrats.


12 posted on 11/15/2018 8:08:32 AM PST by adorno
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....yeah,but they have ears like Odungo....smell like Hilda,...and lie ....like the media


13 posted on 11/15/2018 8:09:13 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Adolph would have loved this!


14 posted on 11/15/2018 8:12:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: Sacajaweau

exactly


15 posted on 11/15/2018 8:13:06 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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If Democrat women start making exceptions to what they have heretofore believed to be sacrosanct, which is a woman’s so-called right to choose, then they’re on the slippery slope to questioning the entire premise. A blob of tissue doesn’t have intelligence at all. It may be that there’s a silver lining to this, but I’m not holding my breath, we are talking about Democrats here. They do love their baby killing.


16 posted on 11/15/2018 8:14:05 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Saw the movie....


17 posted on 11/15/2018 8:14:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Bingo where are democrats going to get their voters if morons are weeded out?


18 posted on 11/15/2018 8:19:01 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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Half of all babies are below average.


19 posted on 11/15/2018 8:25:08 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Watch what happens if they find the gay gene.


20 posted on 11/15/2018 8:28:01 AM PST by gibsonguy
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