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Prenatal Screening Leading to Designer Children
by Bill Wilson, Washington, D.C. correspondent
SUMMARY: Tests in the womb are being used to determine
which children will live.
Pre-natal screening is now being used to effectively bring
about designer children -- by aborting the pre-born who
don't measure up to a doctor's or parents' standards.
George Neumayr is executive editor of The American
Spectator magazine, which is blowing the whistle on the
disturbing trend.
"Medical researchers," he said, "are estimating that over
80 percent of unborn children prenatally diagnosed as
having Down syndrome are aborted."
Andy Imparato, president of the American Association of
People with Disabilities said the next step is designer
babies.
" 'Enlightened scientists,' in the name of science and
reason can be so brutally discriminatory against people
that they see as defective," he said. "And so you have
this history in the U.S. that plays very much into Hitler
and Nazi Germany."
According to Neumayr, Pre-natal screening can be the
pre-born's worst enemy.
"And as pre-natal screening identifies more and more
conditions," he said, "it will become the preeminent
eugenic tool against those deemed unfit for life."
Imparato said the problem worsens when science and ethics
clash.
"My concern," he said, "is that the science is moving
forward a lot faster than our capacity as a society to
process the science."
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