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Doctors want to screen out embryos with autism
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Sat_Chit_Anand



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RE: Doctors want to screen out embryos with autism

It is inevitable and unstoppable. People will employ eugenics and euthenics if they are able to.

This does say a lot about how we are perceived by the NT world.

However, it is also an extension of the sort of pre-natal efforts which fastidious people undergo such as eating only organic food or doing special yoga asanas.

I hate to say this but what mother or father in their right mind would choose to have an autistic child unless they were some sort of masochist?

We can cause our parents a great deal of anguish.

So therefore it is logical that parents might choose to avoid having autistic children.

I would be concerned, however, that, in the future, the beneficial traits which may result from 'autism genes' would be screened out to the detriment of the population as a whole.

Science without morality is unpleasant, but in any case, our world is becoming increasingly unnatural. Children who would have died without advances in medical science are surviving to have children of their own whose children are also dependent upon medical science for the same medical reasons.

I am not sure if this is not worse than eugenics and euthenics. Sad

04-25-2008 12:31 AM
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RE: Doctors want to screen out embryos with autism - Sat_Chit_Anand - 04-25-2008 12:31 AM
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