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Mass Aborting of Down-Syndrome Babies Amounts to Eugenics

By Wesley J. Smith The New York Times’ “The Ethicist” column this week features a would-be father asking if prenatal testing for conditions such as Down syndrome amounts to eugenics. The answer, predictably, is no. From, the column: None of these scenarios are morally...

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Driven mad by eugenics: a true crime drama from Spain

Driven mad by eugenics: a true crime drama from Spain

By Michael Cook Hildegart and her mother Aurora Rodriguez Eugenics with assisted reproduction technology is not new. Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, devised schemes for making higher and lower humans without the assistance of DNA or Petri dishes. Eugenics was...

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“If not us, who? And if not now, when?”

“If not us, who? And if not now, when?”

By Dave Andrusko “Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as the unexceptionable.” — “The...

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