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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."

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  1. This is sacrilege. Repent OR ELSE. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Any/all of these activities go against God's sacred plan and it is a sin, plain and simple. Any who participate or who knows someone who participates are sinners and will go straight to the Pit upon death, to live an eternal existence in utmost torture. Is it worth it? You cannot play God and expect to have no consequences. In many ways, this is just as bad as abortion. What a tragedy we live in a country where such things are allowed. We need a Christian in the White House. We need to have religious priciples in this country again like we used to.

  2. Fa!gorz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  3. Re:It's not the eye color screening that bugs me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Exactly. All the people of lesser intelligence are the breeders. It's vanity. It's disgusting. It's as if they enjoy playing god by making "mini-me's".

    It's like when two adults say, "Shit, we don't have much in common but we're too afraid to be with anybody else. Let's just get stuck together and have kid or two" without taking into account astronomical divorce rates -- and the kids are always the losers in that case.

    The more intelligent people I know are putting off having children because there is still so much to discover, and there is so much sex to be had. Offspring are crying, puking, shitting money-holes which serve no purpose except to induce misery and tedium in their parents. Imagine yourselves trying to have an intimate moment with your S.O. without some little pissant banging on your bedroom door yelling, "MoooooOOOOOM! DaaaaAAAAAD! The ICE CREAM man is OUTSIDE! Can I get some money for the ICE CREAM MaaaaNNNN?!"

    See how obnoxious that is? Just reading it is irritating, but then there are the breeders who bring their crotch-fruit in public, to restaraunts, to ball games, to movies, and sometimes even to parties. Yeah, great, force everybody else to have to be parents and watch their mouths because you don't know how to use condoms. If my taxes are going to pay for your medical bills, I got two words for you:
    FORCED STERILIZATION.

  4. Re:It's not the eye color screening that bugs me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't give a dog's dick if YOUR specific genes are still here either. Mine are superior anyway.

  5. Re:lawsuit by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...being a child with red hair could be hell at times.

    Yeah, I heard it can be tough going through life without a soul... what with all the automatic doors not opening and stuff...

    --
    Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
  6. Re:An Ethical Quandry without an easy answer by sexconker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Most atheists are only concerned with shitting on religion, and making sure each and every one of their friends is an atheist.

    Then they go on the internet and post on a forum about how they hate that the holidays are coming, because they'll have to go to church, and how they can't tell their mom that they're an atheist because it will hurt her, especially after the divorce.

    Basically: Atheists on the internet are just stupid teenagers.

    True atheists usually turn out to be amoral, unethical, opportunistic, selfish, assholes. Oh, and did I mention they think they're better than anyone else?

    (I am not religious.)