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Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening
destinyland writes "A fertility service in L.A. and New York screens embryos for breast cancer, cystic fibrosis, and 70 other diseases — and lets couples pick the sex of their babies. But when their pre-implantation diagnostic services began including the baby's eye and hair color, even the Pope objected — and the Great Designer Baby Controversy began. '[W]e cannot escape the fact that science is moving forward,' the fertility service explained — before capitulating to pressure to eliminate the eye and hair color screenings."
My thoughts, almost exactly. Pandemic "x" sweeps the globe, infecting 95% of the population, and killing 85% of those infected. BUT those people who were thought susceptible to disease "D" are left untouched.
Unfortunately, because we have been screening out the genes that make disease "D" likely, there are only 50,000 such people worldwide......
Life on earth has been a stage for germ warfare since the beginning. When we start trying to second guess which adaptations are desirable, and why, we open a whole new can of worms. It's possible that we extinct ourselves by putting aside some form of resistance to germ warfare that we don't even recognize as such.
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