The master race will cost you extra
March 3, 2009 @ 11:28 am by NobleAnother jaw-dropping news story on the eugenics front:
Make Way for Designer Babies – MSNBC
Want a baby with blonde hair and green eyes? No problem.
A Los Angeles fertility clinic is offering a new service that would allow couples to choose their baby’s physical traits, including eye and hair color, the BBC reported.
The LA Fertility Institutes said it has already received half a dozen requests for the service and expects the first designer baby to be born next year.
“I would not say this is a dangerous road,” Jeff Steinberg, director of the clinic, told the BBC. “It’s an uncharted road.”
But as the Wall Street Journal reported in February, the demand is out there:
In a recent U.S. survey of 999 people who sought genetic counseling, a majority said they supported prenatal genetic tests for the elimination of certain serious diseases. The survey found that 56% supported using them to counter blindness and 75% for mental retardation.
More provocatively, about 10% of respondents said they would want genetic testing for athletic ability, while another 10% voted for improved height. Nearly 13% backed the approach to select for superior intelligence, according to the survey conducted by researchers at the New York University School of Medicine.
The new service has sparked debate within the global medical community, raising huge questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.
My response: uncharted road my ass.
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Comment by Polly
— March 4, 2009 @ 5:09 am
They were releasing “news” about this when I was about 16 or 17. A family member joked about it and said “I want a woman with three tits!”
Not hard to figure out who that was I bet =)
I don’t remember what the report was exactly. Was the report we saw way back then that this was going to be implemented or if it was already available. I seem to recall it was the latter, but memories can be wrong. You obviously know more about it than I do.
I would NOT do it. I don’t understand how anyone would want to. It takes away the point of it for me.
Comment by Noble Lie
— March 7, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
Heh, heh. I love your family!
It is a phenomena of these bizarre stories that they often turn out to have been announced several times in the past since then, but We The People miss it because the possibility of such a thing is still beyond our zone of comprehension.
The enlightened side of me is stricken by the kind of inhuman, sickening conformity this new technology threatens our species with, but the animal side of me is also disgusted with it, because I want to pass along MY DNA, thank you very much.