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Quote by: Marconius If the parents want the test its their choice. The religious people wont be forced to take the test or genetically engineer their children when that technology becomes available. What is the problem? |
Re read Patrick's post. The problem is twofold. Hitler wanted a "master race" by selecting couples with the "right" characteristics (blue-eyed, blond-haired, etc) in the hopes an entire race could be created with those desired traits. But instead of that hit-or-miss process you could just have people crank out as many babies as possible and just abort the "wrong" ones.
And Patrick's point about the "gene pool" is legitimate. Mixing of traits passed down from previous generations help maintain a strong and healthy species and tinkering around by avoiding having babies with big noses or the wrong color hair weakens the pool. And people in general are a LOT dumber than Mother Nature.
I only disagree with the idea that people shouldn't have access to such tests simply because of those possibilities as the tests can be restricted to allow use for health purposes ONLY.