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Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection?
Tjeerd writes "There is currently a discussion going on in the Netherlands about embryo selection. The process means that when using in vitro fertilization, you can check what kind of genetic defects will definitely become activated during life. When embryos with those defects are identified, they can be avoided or destroyed. The next step the government is considering is to make it possible to select against genetic defects which might become active in life, such as breast and colon cancer. Of course, this is a very difficult discussion; where do you start, and where do you end? People are worrying that there is no real limit, and that you could potentially check for every genetic defect. I think if you're in a situation where you or your family have genetic defects, you surely want to check whether your children would have them too. What does the Slashdot community think about this?"
Imagine a government starting to do this. Your particular family history is not wanted. You have black in your genes, or Jewish, or whatever... But it won't stop at the unborn. Those that escape the birth defect net will be targeted after birth.
I remember a certain person called Adolf who pushed this for all it's worth. It started off small in Handamar hospital in Germany with the killing off of the elderly, then the cripples, then political prisoners, then Jews, etc. This is the logical conclusion of this type of thinking.
In the end you are allowing whoever is in power at the time to dictate who lives or who dies. That is why Christians say no one but God decides who and when a person lives and dies. Watch out... you may find yourself on the extermination list.
Commies getting what they had coming? Hooray!
Bullshit.
A fetus is not a human being until it is born, jackass.
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