| Outlawing such a test would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The "master race" or "designer babies" fear is a valid one, IMO. However, I'm sure we have at least two alternatives to prevent another Aryan race. If the test could be engineered to ONLY report birth defects or diseases that would be one way to go and the other way would be to prohibit labs from checking for non health-related traits or to compel these labs and physicians to simply not release that information to the parents.
A properly written and properly administered law(s) could prevent any master races and still help couples avoid the heart-wrenching discovery that their baby will be terrible deformed or will die a lingering death.
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |