Russell Moore writes at Mere Comments on genetic engineering. “. . . through in vitro fertilization (IVF) parents are able ‘to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life, and are often treatable if they do.’ Embryos that do show a predisposition to such disorders may be ‘discarded,’ and the couple tries again.”
Ouch! I didn’t realize we had slid this far down the slope. Someone should write a science fiction novel or story about the implications, moral and physical, of a world in which parents choose to have only “perfect” children, and those who do not choose to make that choice are regarded as negligent at best, criminal at worst. Stories have power, maybe the power to wake us up before we slide any farther into playing God with the lives and genes of our children.
Not more evil than aborting possible Down’s syndrome fetuses, just more of it. They’re talking about testing for genetic markers for everything from a predisposition to cancer to possible alcoholism. IF this causes more and more parents to reject their unborn children for more and more and more reasons, then we have a slide toward this action becoming socially acceptable and even expected.
oops, I accidentally deleted Jeremy Pierce’s comment in which he wrote that he thought this development was no more evil than what we’re already doing, aborting fetuses that may have Down’s.
Sorry, Jeremy.
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Not more evil than aborting possible Down’s syndrome fetuses, just more of it. They’re talking about testing for genetic markers for everything from a predisposition to cancer to possible alcoholism. IF this causes more and more parents to reject their unborn children for more and more and more reasons, then we have a slide toward this action becoming socially acceptable and even expected.
oops, I accidentally deleted Jeremy Pierce’s comment in which he wrote that he thought this development was no more evil than what we’re already doing, aborting fetuses that may have Down’s.
Sorry, Jeremy.