11-09-2012, 08:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2012, 09:23 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Let me tell you, there is a very big difference. Choosing to abort a child because they have down syndrome could be doing that child a favor (as well as yourself, considering they are much more difficult to take care of and it is better to not have a child at all than to end up caring for it poorly), considering all the difficulties they will have to face in life compared to non-disabled children - including discrimination, and pre-screening is an entirely different thing from messing with genetics. Picking the eye color and sex of your baby is selfish, shallow and egotistical, if not downright racist and sexist bullshit eugenics, and in a society where certain phenotypes and races are preferable to others based on bourgeois ideology, cultural norms and stereotypes, this would be open for all kinds of abuse. Not to mention other unpredictable, more scientific consequences - in my view we have no business screwing around with people's genetic code. Our DNA and biology is extremely complex and to start altering it is at best, dangerous, and at worst, 21st century eugenics, and I see no good reason to be in favor of it. All it is neo-Nazi pseudo-science, and anyone who advocates this crap is borderline insane, or at least has some ethical positions they need to seriously reconsider.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)