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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most healthy and well-functioning families horde their genetic material and aim to marry into other healthy and well-functioning families. Ask yourself if you would have a child with a drug-addicted schizophrenic with a 80 IQ.  If you wouldn’t, you’re a eugenicist too.

These technologies are going to make having healthier children more equitable, not less.

If we could offer genetic embryo selection to all Americans with major or even minor mental or physical health problems in their family history, we would do a lot to alleviate many types of mental and physical suffering. These technologies don’t eliminate all risk, and we all end life in the same place, but they can lessen risks of early death, trauma, and suffering by lowering risk of early death, cardiac problems, cognitive disabilities, schizophrenia and other major cognitive, mental, and physical health problems. [/quote]

While I don’t disagree, I also worry about unintended consequences.  It’s worrisome to start making decisions like this with an (almost certainly) incomplete understanding of how all these genes interact. [/quote]

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