Eugenics Alive: coming soon to a country near you. On the threshold of human genome engineering, ‘fretting about the ethics of these issues is a thing that only Western countries are going to do. Elsewhere, eugenics — including
“genetic enhancement” — will not be fretted about or debated, it will just be done.’
A rough kind of eugenics has, in fact, been practiced in China for a long time. Several years ago, when I was living in that country, I mentioned Down’s
Syndrome in conversation with a Chinese colleague. She did not know the English term and I did not know the Chinese, so we had to look it up in a
dictionary. “Oh,” she said when she got it. “That’s not a problem in China. They don’t get out of the delivery room.”As I said: While we are agonizing over the rights and wrongs of it, elsewhere they will just be doing it. National Review
And speaking of eugenics:
The “Genius Babies,” and How They Grew: the ‘truth’ about the “Nobel Prize sperm bank”, the Repository for Germinal Choice. Slate
